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Originally Posted by Cherry7
If people lived in a democracy and were given the choice of keeping industry here, of full employment, good schools for everyone (not just the 5% who go to private school and take 60% of the places at Oxford and Cambridge) We would have a different society. Sadly information is controlled by a few corporations who peddle the lie that wealth is created by the rich.
All the real wealth is created by working people who farm, mine, make steel etc...
The public sector make this activity possible by collecting rubbish, curing the sick, putting out fires...
People like ENRON and financial speculators are involved in stealing. The bankers paying themselves bonuses of £10,000,000 for one year is real pornography when so many thousand people live without heating becuse they can't afford it. Now that is violence on a global scale.
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So give me the solution. Russia tried one and it didn't work. They had to build a wall around the entire Eastern Block to keep people and businesses in. And it failed miserably.
Strange to hear a person in business talking like a Communist.
Industry kept in the UK. = 10 x the current price for clothing and loads of other goods. Plus overseas companies not coming to the UK to do or invest in businesses.
Plus full employment = Low wages for every one. They had full employment in Czech. They were earning less than $300 a month.
Enron and those who did the same should be in prison and some are or were. But the rich robber barons as you think, are making vast profits that makes the heels turn around and will repay the debts.
The public sector are there to keep the streets clean, cure the sick, teach children, etc. Not repay the massive debts Gordon Brown ran up.
Look at Greece, Portugal, Eire and there might be Spain to add to the list for the consequences of what you propose.