Die skrywer sê:  One of her fans had posted this comment:

“I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table and next to the braai. Then came the poop. It was everywhere; on the patio tiles, the chairs, the table, everywhere!  Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud.

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The drop in the stock market, through Friday, could cut overall spending by $140 billion, or 1.3 percent, over the coming year, says Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. Dales forecasts that the stock market turmoil could reduce the economy’s annual growth rate by half a percentage point through 2012.

There isn’t much to spare. In the first half of the year, the economy grew at a scant 0.8 percent annual rate. That helps explain the dive on Wall Street: Stocks are falling partly on fears that the nation could slip back into a recession.

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S.A Government makes huge profits from crime.

 Question:  “What is the influence of crime on the S.A. Govt?”

 Answer:  Crime generates millions and millions of Rand’s for the SA Government

 Here are the facts….

Example 1:

Take just one million home owners in Gauteng who pay for “armed crime reaction” (not crime prevention) . . .

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12 February 2011

The new toll road system of Gauteng makes me think of this story and I started to wonder if the government has really not maybe got the cat by the tail.

We have all seen how they spend the taxpayer’s money on and I don’t think any of us can ever change that any more, But now I think it’s the beginning of the end for the “living” in this country. They will kill off the tree that bears the fruit

I found this story and was thinking it is too good not to share. It was written by David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics.

Read the story

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So I geuss we can call the genaration: the “sugar stealing genaration”. After all, while the mamas steal the sugar, the papas strike on the mines (or steal from the farmers). And then they get what they wanted, the country to rule, this sugar baby’s generation. Now this stolen sugar fed generation is in government and monkey see monkey do. So now they steal the sugar of the country, the so called cream of the crop. With the ministry this past year having a 30%+ salary increase and so did the rest of government. Corruption is rife and we ask why do they do that?

The problem doesn’t lie with them. It lies with us in accepting this behavior, the “don’t make a scene” acceptance. Many will now tell us that “we’re going soft”. But that is not it. We were brought up to be philanthropic, same thing that stems from the British.

And there I have just proven it again, us Boers can and will blame everything on the British.

Secondly, I get the feeling that for some reason banks in our current market get protective. Do you maybe get the same idea? Now two reasons governments feel they have to protect banks are: Is it my money or the rich that they have to protect… The governments own the banks and the bank own us, and what should have followed is that we own the government but its not true. The rich own the governments. Therefore the rich own us.

 I don’t know, maybe I am the only one to think this, but I don’t believe we should be owned by the rich. But I think there will be others that think it has been like this for ever and this is the way it will be for ever. But I beg them to re-think the situation again. The Rich/Government has (in un-democratic situations) owned a part of our labor (Tax). Now they own our Houses, our cars and in many households, everything in it. In exchange, I agree we also feel we cannot live without those luxuries. But that’s their lure, isn’t it.

So, I think we must stop paying all their houses, cars, and even that loan for that Hi Fi.  When I say WE, I mean everyone in every country, from Spain to Thailand , from The US to Italy, every one. Let them take it all back. Pretty soon they will sit with so many houses that they must sell or rent out, cars that they must sell, and other goods that they try to sell. Then prices on everything will fall through the floor, maybe even so that we will not even have to take out loans to buy it back.

The government will over stretch itself to protect the banks to such an extent that they will become bankrupt, and then we can take back the government for mismanagement and also, of course, take back the banks that we helped build.