On 23/01/2009, Richard Crawford <oscarweird@yahoo. co.uk> wrote:
> What a bizarre posting!!

I'm not sure if you were referring to my positive points about Obama (who since
I wrote the message has signed orders for the closure of Guantanamo Bay within a
year, suspended the military trials farce of the inmates there, ordered the
closure of secret CIA prisons around the world in which torture has been/is
being carried out, ordered an end to "harsh interrogation techniques", i.e.
torture, and ended the practice of refusing to support organisations working in
the "third world" who give advice on abortion) or my points about the UK
becoming bankrupt!

There was a front page article in the Guardian the other day (yesterday I think
but a week is a long time in politics nowadays!!!) reporting on a certain David
Cameron suggesting that Britain would have to go desperately to the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) for billions of pounds that New Labour intends
to borrow, and that this could happen very soon! Perhaps he , or one of his
advisors, had read my email - I do send them out far and wide after all! OK, he
suggested massive spending cuts as a consequence, but can you really imagine any
government in this country trying to cut public spending by £200 billion or so
to balance the books? [Trying to search guardian.co.uk or Google News for the
article failed to find it - I wonder why - censorship!?!]

It has been suggested that New Labour could resort to printing money. Already
the pound is falling a lot against the dollar and Euro, and doing this could
cause hyperinflation, it would appear to me (as an amateur economist but one
with more convincing arguments than those of big business and socialist
commentators afraid of veering too much from the general consensus). Those who
think it only happens in countries like Zimbabwe should remember a certain
country called Germany, before my lifetime...

Anmyway, maybe you'd like to check out my website
http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk, now receiving record hits (OK the record of 172
unique visitors on Wednesday after sending out that message isn't that high but
with my predictions about Barclays going bankrupt being taken very seriously,
you will I'm sure find plenty of bizarre things on it or my other
websites/social networking sites to amuse yourself with...)