bagpuss
05-Jul-10, 23:04
My mean other half tells me the country is in a mess and we must all start doing our bit to economise. If I want trips north to see my family I must not fly, take the car or use a train (carbon footprint and cost prohibitive. Instead I must either take the cheapest bus available or hitch-hike. Given that he’s rich, and that I work and its nothing to do with him as he’ll only be coming up when the digger goes into the Thurso Tesco, I have my own suggestions,which I urge Orgers to consider.
If we were all to stop spending on anything other than essentials, these might be the results:
Use yesterday’s newspaper (he reads the Daily Mail) as loo paper (too hard on the old Farmer Giles)
No holidays, dinners out or treats except on very special occasions
No buying books- use the library
Now think Wick. Without this sort of expenditure- which many of us take for granted, what might be the implications?
Takeaways and restaurants to close (that’s half of Bridge Street). New Look and Edinburgh Woollen Mill deprived of their customer base. Only charity shops to sell furniture, fancy goods and clothing- and only Lidl viable as a supermarket.
Think how many other jobs will go in consequence.
Now think of how government spending over the next 5 years is going to affect our everyday lives.
If we were all to stop spending on anything other than essentials, these might be the results:
Use yesterday’s newspaper (he reads the Daily Mail) as loo paper (too hard on the old Farmer Giles)
No holidays, dinners out or treats except on very special occasions
No buying books- use the library
Now think Wick. Without this sort of expenditure- which many of us take for granted, what might be the implications?
Takeaways and restaurants to close (that’s half of Bridge Street). New Look and Edinburgh Woollen Mill deprived of their customer base. Only charity shops to sell furniture, fancy goods and clothing- and only Lidl viable as a supermarket.
Think how many other jobs will go in consequence.
Now think of how government spending over the next 5 years is going to affect our everyday lives.