Jos Ballenbak
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It can go a bit overboard with social reforms though, our national debt is so big because of the high costs of our welfare state in the eighties. It's why our economy sucks so much.
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That is so simplistic I don't even know where to start... but I'll advance the idea that since our national debt actually isn't so high for a developed country, and is surpassed by many with weaker systems, that's almost certainly not the whole picture. And our economy is still very, very strong; it's just relatively weaker than it has been.
Brian Shanahan
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Mainly because of the Thatcher lead, and Blair/Brown completed, deregulation and privatisation process futzing up everything worthwhile in the UK economy.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
Maybe i should've said it in a other manner, but what i was trying to say is that due to political choices in the past we are now spending so much money on paying off the interest of our national debt. Money we could well use in other ways.
I'm not sure I agree with Thatcher, and I definitely don't like Neu Arbeit, but if it were as simple as that then nobody else in Europe or the world would have economic problems on our scale. A quick glance around the map... oh.
madviking
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It seemed like that messiah job really worked out for him.
PeteAtoms
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What does "stat!" mean when doctors use it in medically urgent situations? I assume it means 'hurry!' or 'ASAP,' but it must be short for something or an acronym or something right?
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It's derived from Latin, statim, which means immediately.
Brian Shanahan
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Look again, all the economic problems (except for those due to Act of God) are due to the same policies as those enacted in the UK only just taken farther. In Chile privatisation caused meltdown in the '70's, in Russia, and E.Europe in the '90's, E.Asia and the rest of S.America in the late '90' early '00's and the whole world in 2008.
And if you look at the PIGS (including both Ireland and Italy in the acronym) they are all about 2 years farther down the line, in macroeconomic terms, in the direction Osborne is taking you. The fact that there are so many countries up the swannee without a paddle vindicates my side far better than yours.
Do we have any dentists or dental hygenists on the good ship CFC? I have a broken molar and my dentist can't see me for two weeks, and while I'm not in significant pain, it seems odd and potentially dangerous to just leave it unaddressed for that long.
Quackers
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Can anybody tell me of any major Communists in important countries who were not-bougeoise? I'm thinking maybe Mao was a peasant right? But who else? Many of these so-called Workers revolutionairies seem to be middle class..
Which would make it a bastardisation of the highest order given that stat means 'it stands', but I wouldn't put that past doctors. Stet ('let it stand') is used when communicating that you have corrected something that should not have been corrected and you want the original to be read.
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That's the sort of thing that happens when languages acquire new vocabulary. It's sensible enough within the context of its development, a development which would favor the evolution of a one-syllable utterance that would say "Immediately!" Stat can be barked out quickly and with greater vocal urgency than the two syllables of statim.
SS-18 ICBM
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Well, it's got Mt. Rushm . . . I mean, Wall Dr . . . I mean, it's got the Peace Garden Park or whatever.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
Because we do not care about Capybaras. I even had to look the damn creature up.
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