A Thumb through the Scum

And when's the last time you flipped open the Metrhole or some newspaper in your co-ed workplace breakroom and saw that? Gotta love Britain. That I do. Seems the Brits in their wisdom exported all of Cromwell's ilk to the 'States and the people kept the people chill with titties, casinos, and other harmless vices. Speaking of vices, I saw basically this story in the Scum today, but because they're miser-fuckwipes, I'll just copy the jist of it from the Scottish Daily Mail,

POLICE officers are calling for all drugs to be legalised in Scotland . In a hugely controversial move, an influential group of frontline officers is demanding a radical change in the law. They say that even Class A drugs such as cocaine and heroin should no longer be illegal. The call comes from rank and file police in the country's biggest force who say radical measures are essential to tackle the spiralling drug problem.

Strathclyde Police Federation which represents nearly all 7,700 officers in the area, says all drugs should be licensed for use by addicts. The Association says millions of pounds are wasted on futile efforts to tackle the issue, with resources diverted from other police duties.

"Oh, but if only one my little bright eyed, artless suburbanite child is kept free from the taint of substance, than all the wars, murders, racketeering, unjust imprisionments, and pain it causes the rest of the world to supply a demand that has never deminished will be all worth it!"

And this one actually is from the Scum,

New jobs taken by oldies
*The Dismal Science*

MEN aged 65-plus and women of 60 and over took more than HALF of all new jobs in the past year. A total of 85,000 of the 147,000 new workers in the 12 months to February were pensioners, the Office for National Statistics revealed yesterday. One in ten state pensioners is now working past retirement age, with 1.13 million of the growing army of OAPs holding down jobs. The trend is put down to pension shortfalls and people living longer.

Alas, all those tomorrows central banking borrowed from all those todays of yesteryear are finally catching up with the benighted.

It's admittedly a simplification of the matter, but as Robert Twigger points out in a paper he submitted for the House of Commons,

• Over the period as a whole, prices have risen by around 118 times. Thus one (decimal) penny in 1750 would have had greater purchasing power than a pound in 1998

• Since 1945 prices have risen in every year with an aggregate rise of over 22 times. By contrast, prices were lower in 1939 than in 1919.

Thus it seems the Keynsian gamble that ""A movement by employers to revise money-wage bargains downward will be much more strongly resisted than a gradual and automatic lowering of real wages as a result of rising prices." has worked out well for those who have leveraged themselves into solvency above the "scientifically" engineered "prosperity" of our fiat-world. Like Nicky Wire and Richey James Edwards would tell ya,

From feudal serf to spender, this wonderful world of purchase power...