MP Pat McFadyan has just talked of the disaster which would have befallen us if the government had not bought RBS. The Treasury is now apparently going to take a massive loss selling a big tranche of the shares. Combine that with the way all banks are building up their reserves and not helping to rebuild the economy, yet still paying obscene bonuses and I question that disaster mantra.
On BBC Radio 4 News "When the economy dipped, the banks suffered". Or words to that effect! It was a pity there was no mention of the cause of the dip; sub prime mortgage scandal; but that was of course silly people taking on debts they could not possibly pay back, nothing to do with the banks who were apparently the innocent victims. Is that good enough spin for me to get a PR job at a bank? I could do with a bonus.
the following arrived in my email today as I sat in front of a computer with two other machines standing idly by.... "In the queue at the shop, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologised to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment!"
Back then, they returned their milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every shop and office building. They walked to the grocery shop and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two miles. But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day. Back then, they washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her day. Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for them.
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