tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post110068995794760135..comments2020-06-09T01:02:53.091+01:00Comments on Squander Two: Accounting fictions and welfare.Squander Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06968628314723491478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1100699767625410592004-11-17T13:56:00.000+00:002004-11-17T13:56:00.000+00:00Tricky's version started to swim round my head the...Tricky's version started to swim round my head the moment I typed the phrase. Some lyrics just catch.<br /><br />My dad can remember when NI was optional. You were automatically put in the scheme, I think, but it had an opt-out.<br /><br />The real piss-take is that the government are now advising us to take out private pensions because the state pension will be worthless by the time we retire. OK. Can I have my national insurance back, so I can invest it myself?Squander Twohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06968628314723491478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1100696848481669292004-11-17T13:07:00.000+00:002004-11-17T13:07:00.000+00:00I always expect the line "a letter from the govern...I always expect the line "a letter from the government" to be followed by "I opened and read it, It said they were suckers" as in <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sing365.com%2Fmusic%2Flyric.nsf%2FBlack-Steel-In-The-Hour-Of-Chaos-lyrics-Public-Enemy%2F574FABD10E10D5AE482568A40006AF22">Public Enemy's Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos</A>It's a crazy system. Once upon a time in the early days of the welfare state you used to actually buy stamps so there must have been an optional facotr to the welfare/national assistance scheme. I wonder when it changed and they began taking a source.<br /><br />Incidently I thought of another post of yours about an old soldier a while ago when I read the following in the book, The Bomb to The Beatles - The changing face of post war Britain 1945 - 1965:<br /><br /><I>The 1947 National Service Act reintroduced wartime conscription for all men over 18 for one year. In December 1948 the period was extended to 18months and, in the months after the outbreak of the Korean war, to two years, and this continued for another ten years. It was, Attlee maintained, "a reasonable thing for the state to ask in return for the welfare state".</I>Yea, thanks a bunch.Mark Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152255621430218612noreply@blogger.com