On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 06:15 am, Ken Basterfield wrote: > Hakan, I do hope you are not about to downplay the prospect of the US > invading the UK, Daphne du Maurier would turn in her grave. > I still have hopes that we would roll over and take the proferred > reparations that the US will rain on us after we surrender. > We certainly need it! > Old people desperately needing care, a mininal state pension that is > destined to decline into nothing, no public housing programme, education in > crisis, medical services so strained that we have to send our people to > France so they can get their operations done, public transport in chaos and > Tony Blair ventures our miserable remaining wealth on sorting out the > politics of other tyrants. > Ken
It always remains a mystery to me how we can engineer a political system that can take a sufficiently long term view (generational or longer) so that issues like (to take a single issue as example here) overaging of a population do not become a insurmountable issue. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > France as staging area. I have always wondered about how > > Canada could survive as a country, but if the British and > > the French can get along, it should be a piece of cake for > > the Christians and the Muslims. -:) <southpark mode> "Blame Canada!" </Cartman> -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 It's a book. Non-volatile storage media. Everyone should have one. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/i5gGAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
