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Listed below are comments made by BobRocket between Friday, 20th November 2009 and Saturday, 28th November 2009 (19 Hours Ago) .

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• Dubai: Just a sideshow? 02:29am on 28 Nov 2009 I've been busy for the last few days so I'll start backwards.
  
  Dubai World is probably safe for now, it will be bailed by it's bigger brothers.
  Nakheel Construction will probably limp on.
  The subcontractors and investors who can't get out will pay the price (now who are they ?)
  
  Not much support for 47bn tax rises, not much support for 47bn spending cuts, not much support for anything really. Now if a party was to offer 47bn tax cuts and 47bn spending increase then they would probably get lots of support.
  
  Winners - banks, they can now increase charges and also charge annual fees, credit card companies also win as their £12 capped charge was predicated on the OFT assertion, expect them to revert to £35 + annual fees
  Losers - the general public (as usual, why did we even entertain that this might not be so)
  
  QE is toxic. It is a cumulative poison, the symptoms will not show until it is too late.
  
  
  
• Three-way on the MPC 6:53pm on 21 Nov 2009 #modded@320stop
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• Three-way on the MPC 3:44pm on 21 Nov 2009 #313
  
  There are plenty of ideas for which actions should and shouldn't be implemented, and various reasons to back or refute them.
  (Economics is an art not a science, you get to choose the significance of any 'evidence' you care to use)
  
  Others from these blogs have discussed ideas, some of which can be found at LobbyGroup or [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator]
  
  
  
  'Not unreasonable when you think about it. ?'
  
  it depends on your point of view, some might say it was those very workers, using their future income stream to speculate on property inflation, that got us into this mess in the first place.(about the only thing that can't be blamed on the unemployed).
  Others say it was the bankers/spivs.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Why cars are greener than buses (maybe) 1:52pm on 21 Nov 2009 Car, Bus, Truck, Train, Plane.
  
  It doesn't matter what form you use, if it ain't human powered then it ain't green.
  
  Human powered may be green but it is not always preferred or practical.
  
  The rise in the mpg of cars has been a response to increasing road fuel prices.
  
  Increase road fuel prices further and manufacturers will increase mpg further.
  
  Polluter pays. (and pushes efficiency demand)
  
  
  
  
• Three-way on the MPC 1:18pm on 21 Nov 2009 #307
  
  that's a bit harsh AGDT, Ishkandar might not even like cockles.
  
  I wonder if they were flown halfway around the world to be shelled and cleaned ?
  
  
• Three-way on the MPC 12:54pm on 21 Nov 2009 #306
  
  Why is it that there is little or no immigration amongst the listed professions ? (do they not have Barristers in Bangalore ?)
  
  
• Three-way on the MPC 12:38pm on 21 Nov 2009
  #from earlier post and taken out of context.
  
  'You round up all the people who have no productive contribution to society (Bankers, Lawyers, Accountants, Tax Advisors, Politicans)'
  
  Does anyone notice that this employment grouping have strong professional associations and very little immigrant/unemployment population.
  
  The low skilled have long been marginalised by industrialisation and low rate immigration.
  Semi-skilled working in the blue collar sector has gone the same way and now it is the semi-skilled white collars' sector turn.
  
  
• Three-way on the MPC 12:04pm on 21 Nov 2009 #289 ishkandar wrote:
  
  'No !! There's still plenty of work around !! It's just that the unemployed Brits would rather go on the dole than take those jobs. So they are taken by immigrants !!
  
  Therefore, the issue is one of *expectations* and *arrogance*, not of jobs !!'
  
  
  Sorry Ish, I have got to take issue with that one.
  
  'There's still plenty of work around' - no, there is still plenty of stuff that needs doing but no-one is prepared to pay the market price to have it done.
  
  'rather go on the dole than take those jobs' - income support is set at the minimum the state thinks that you need to live on, a lot of these jobs are offered at rates so low that after working expenses are paid the recipient is actually worse off (ie. net income is less than the state thinks you need to live on)
  
  'So they are taken by immigrants !!
  Therefore, the issue is one of *expectations* and *arrogance*, not of jobs !!'
  
  Immigrants are imported to do the jobs that cannot be offshored in order to lower the market rate for that job.
  
  
• Why cars are greener than buses (maybe) 12:16pm on 20 Nov 2009
  Re: green punitive taxes only hit car drivers.
  
  
  from another post :-
  
  'I drive a 15 year old diesel car that gets 60mpg. I commute 200 miles per week, and spend approximately £18 in diesel'
  
  
  If the fuel duty was raised so that a litre of derv was 2.20 (double what it is now)
  and your car manufacturer raised your mpg to 120 then you would still only be spending 18 pounds per week on diesel.
  
  
• Why cars are greener than buses (maybe) 11:25am on 20 Nov 2009 The problem with public transport is its very nature.
  
  People want personal transport, to go where they want and when they want without having to work around scheduled timetables and journey plans.
  
  Cars must be made more fuel efficient and the only way to force that change is by raising fuel duty to put the price of a litre of UNL/Derv up to 1.60 or 1.70
  
  Scrappage schemes should only provide subsidies to the most fuel efficient replacements.
  
  This would also push long distance freight off the roads and back onto the railways where it belongs.
  
  
  

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