General strike/protest

[McBain]

Sidebar for sec.

Quite right. I think Google is a good thing too, which is why I think it's only right that society should subsidise their activities as well.

Back up there Brucey.

The earnings release spelled out the cost of running mostly experimental businesses that aim to do everything from eliminating the human driver to curing cancer. Those operations posted an operating loss of $1.69 billion ($US1.2 billion) on revenue of $212 million ($US151 million) in the final three months of last year.

Google, meanwhile, produced an operating profit of $9.57 billion ($US6.8 billion) on revenue of $29.83 billion ($US21.2 billion), driven by strong sales of advertising on mobile devices and YouTube.

So what you are saying is that a company that made 9 billion clear profit, and only then spent $1.69 billion on 'experimental' or 'risky' key word businesses, should have the Tax Payer pay for its other businesses?

Please Explain this unusual position.

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[chrismpw]

Have you got anything else to contribute? Looking over the past few pages, Bruce seems to be one of the only ones supporting his arguments with facts and figures. Everyone else is just saying that Tories are killing disabled people and calling it a day

To be fair though, the figures released by any government are distorted and massaged to make them look good. You can't believe anything they release in my opinion, therefore, supporting an argument with such figures can not be regarded as strong evidence.

 

[chrismpw]

No, I was thinking of the creeping privatisation that's going on in the public sector.

This academies nonsense is appalling. Just awful. I despair for the future of our kids. Seriously thinking of bailing out of teaching within the next 15 months.

Handed my notice to my head this week. 28 years of experience and I've finally had enough of government meddling. Have no alternative job lined up.

 

[Prevenger17]

Oh, do forgive me for mocking the disingenuousness of a post which tries to spin the fact that the government has just given tax breaks to the wealthy whilst simultaneously cutting disability benefits into some enormous act of benevolence for which we should all be tugging our forlocks and thanking Gideon most kindly, sir.

And there we go again.

Sidebar for sec.

Back up there Brucey.

So what you are saying is that a company that made 9 billion clear profit, and only then spent $1.69 billion on 'experimental' or 'risky' key word businesses, should have the Tax Payer pay for its other businesses?

Please Explain this unusual position.

x

That's more like it.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

No mate...it's called getting off your ass,and trying to make a better life for yourself and your family,and not blaming the rest of mankind for your failings.
People like you just want to drag everyone down to your level..

Yeah, and what about all the pearls of wisdom this Govt's hurled out, in the form of hoops for people to jump through so as they can even claim jobseeker's allowance?

AKA 'Welfare To Work Schemes' - where people are being taught dead useful things like how to build the eiffel tower from drinking straws, or how to wipe their arses, ffs

http://watchinga4e.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/those-tweets.html

I'm sure things like that will help find them a job, won't they? THAT'S where your tax money's going - on schemes that are even WORSE than if they left people to their own devices to look for work.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-Work-Programme-worse-than-doing-nothing.html

I can't abide the overt two-hattish attitude of people like you, who think everyone's the same and who think everyone on some form of benefit or other is a layabout, and a scrounger.

Oh, your tax pounds are going to people who get off their arses all right, parasitical benefits scroungers like emma harridan harrison

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-gets-8-6m-ONE-YEAR-bulk-comes-taxpayer.html

You need vent your anger at the right people, squire.

 

[Eggs]

No, I was thinking of the creeping privatisation that's going on in the public sector.

This academies nonsense is appalling. Just awful. I despair for the future of our kids. Seriously thinking of bailing out of teaching within the next 15 months.

....I think recruitment generally is a concern for me. I loved seeing the yearly influx of school leavers and graduates into my department but that has dried up. No new young personnel to keep the workforce fresh and vibrant but more importantly no career opportunities for young people. My son is an IT teacher and it really was a calling for him but he found it difficult to get a post on his return from teaching abroad so has gone down the IT route. His lady has a post but nothing appears to be 'permanent'. It's such a shame.

 

[Clint Planet]

Handed my notice to my head this week. 28 years of experience and I've finally had enough of government meddling. Have no alternative job lined up.

A massive, massive teacher shortage is looming, isn't it? I've always considered myself to be committed and adaptable but the way I feel right now, enough is enough. Morale is shot to pieces, the workload increases with every passing term, it seems, and the undermining of the LEA support network in favour of "freeing" schools (what a f***ing joke) into academy status is an ideological timebomb that will blow up in our children's faces (and it is utterly disgusting how it has been sneaked through in a budget statement without any sort of parental or teacher consultation).

I could weep, I really could.

 

[Prevenger17]

To be fair though, the figures released by any government are distorted and massaged to make them look good. You can't believe anything they release in my opinion, therefore, supporting an argument with such figures can not be regarded as strong evidence.

Ah, so any positives are a result of data-tampering, but consider any negatives laid at their door to be 100% true and contextually accurate?

 

[Clint Planet]

Ah, so any positives are a result of data-tampering, but consider any negatives laid at their door to be 100% true and contextually accurate?

Are you actually a Trump supporter, mate?

 

[Prevenger17]

Are you actually a Trump supporter, mate?

Yeah mate, he tells it like it is

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

It's remarkable that a government that spends £217 billion on benefits and tax credits can be seen as cruel. They may spend less than previous governments, yes,

You can't even get THAT right. The tories disagree, anyway...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-35848872


Today Programme

BBC Radio 4

Posted at09:17
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has responded to Iain Duncan Smith's resignation on the Today programme.

He says expenditure on disabled and sickness benefit has been going up under the Conservatives and it was the government's attempts to "get this budget under control" which was leading to reforms.

He says the amount the Conservatives has spent in this area is "much more" than under Labour governments.

He also says the government budget for disabled and sickness benefit is £50bn compared to £35bn for defence.

 

[Clint Planet]

Yeah mate, he tells it like it is

He's a lying racist. You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Prevenger17]

He's a lying racist. You should be ashamed of yourself.

He's going to make America great again, you must not want America to be great

 

[carlos21]

He's going to make America great again, you must not want America to be great

Morning mate how are you today

 

[Prevenger17]

Morning mate how are you today

Not too bad Carlos, how are you? Getting heated in here, isn't it?