The Resurrection of the pawn shop

[SocketRocket]

I went to a local tyre company and had a couple of front tyres fitted. I noticed in the Unit next door there was a Food Bank. The guy said it was interesting seeing the 25 stone plumpers turning up in their new SUVs.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

People starving and thrown in the gutter by the nasty party?

Not going down that road other than the ones in Wimbledon have been there for many governments and there has always seemed to have been a need

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Probably have, it's a bit remote where you live.

Same age as me then and I have seen Pawnbrokers. As I said, if there were foodbanks around at any time in the last hundred years would people have used them?

Lothians, Surrey, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Ayrshire.....not really remote.
I do live in a little village now but the nearest Kentucky Fried and Sainsbury's is only 12 miles away.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Has there ever been a time in history when people would not take free food if it's offered? Some people may well go without money but why? Often it's due to them not bothering to attend interviews at the Job Centre or not making an effort to look for work. Before any bleeding heart suggests that the Tory's have reduced the unfortunate into starving they should open their eyes and see the mounting membership of the 'Grand and Nobrorious Order of the Work shy' and not brand all people on benefits as worthy causes. There are worthy causes and they are not thrown in the gutter! Look towards Greece if you want to see the results of welfare overspending.

Regarding Pawn shops, they have always been there.

Of course the other problem with Greece is that tax avoidance and evasion were re rigour - interesting I also read that greece had highest number of mercs per head of population in europe

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Of course the other problem with Greece is that tax avoidance and evasion were re rigour - interesting I also read that greece had highest number of mercs per head of population in europe

Just to prove I don't always disagree with you I would concur.

Greece, and Spain, has long suffered in this way. Payment of tax has long seemed to be regarded as optional whilst the country offered some of the more generous welfare and retirement benefits.

The problem was that nobody seemed to appreciate that this combination was unsustainable.

The end result was the virtual collapse of its economy and the inevitable implementation of a severe austerity programme affecting the man (& woman) in the street rather than those evading their fair share of the tax burden.

 

[SocketRocket]

Of course the other problem with Greece is that tax avoidance and evasion were re rigour - interesting I also read that greece had highest number of mercs per head of population in europe

So they didnt overspend on welfare?

Also look at Ireland and quite a few Euro Zone countries that took advantage of cheap money without considering how it would be repaid. Come to that our Labour Government did similar by pumping up Welfare spending by 40% during their term.

 

[Foxholer]

Shamelessly picked from t'internet!

Mr Micawber's famous, and oft-quoted, recipe for happiness:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

 

[Deleted member 18588]

So they didnt overspend on welfare?

Also look at Ireland and quite a few Euro Zone countries that took advantage of cheap money without considering how it would be repaid. Come to that our Labour Government did similar by pumping up Welfare spending by 40% during their term.

Of course they did but it was equally true that a sizeable minority considered taxes to be optional.

As with any such crisis it was multi-faceted.

 

[MegaSteve]

I also read that greece had highest number of mercs per head of population in Europe

It is only here they are worshiped everywhere else see's them for exactly what they are... Taxi's...

 

[c1973]

It is only here they are worshiped everywhere else see's them for exactly what they are... Taxi's...

:rofl: Never actually realised that till now. :thup: