The moronic comments posted on the BBC Have Your Say forums never cease to amaze me. Let’s take this gem from the “Will you benefit from the pre-Budget report?” forum:
Actually worse-off.
I calculate that the NI increase on my salary will cost me an additional grand a year.
Ordinairy Joe, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
NI went up 0.5% – that’s 0.5p in every pound you earn. So, to cost Joe a grand a year he would have to be on over £200,000 a year. Either Joe can’t do simple maths, or Joe is super rich and fuck the elite bourgeois capitalist swine anyway.
Another brilliant load of bollocks ideas come from “badger fruit”:
1 drop the olympics
2 drop benefits to long term spongers
3 stop giving money away in “aid”, WE need it more than India (for example) right now
4 force banks to repay their bonuses as they contributed to this mess and should not be rewarded
5 drop council tax, car tax & the tv tax
6 simplify income tax bands so higher earners pay more then lower earners
7 STOP ALL BORROWING! We can’t afford the current debt, let alone more!
8 drop ID cardsbadger fruit, resistance hq, United Kingdom
Resistance HQ must be a horrible place to live for Mr. Fruit. Let’s just check the results of these genius solutions to the global financial crisis:
1. We never get anything ever again because and become known as the country which took on this project then decided it was too hard and gave up, fucking up everyone else, when actually it would have happened at just the right time to give us a boost after the recession.
2. Assuming you could even identify long term spongers from people just genuinely in a bad situation (i.e. the majority) in any reliable way, all they would do is start burgling your house and mugging you in the street.
3. Yeah, fuck ‘em, fuck humanity, let the brown people starve – after all, we NEED a turkey and a tree and some presents or it will RUIN Christmas!
4. Actually, that sounds like a good idea…
5. Don’t want your bins collected or those potholes fixed then? See point 7 too.
6. If you can’t understand the current bands then I’m afraid you are too stupid to survive xmas without electrocuting yourself to death on a light up electric Santa. And if you didn’t already notice, they just did put up income tax for high earners like Joe.
7. Nothing instills confidence like the government not spending any money. When people stop buying stuff, investing in stuff and lending each other money, it’s called a recession.
8. Two out of 8, a pretty shit score then.
I just hope to God it’s mainly Daily Mail reading foaming-at-the-mouth twats who post to HYS, or we are all doomed.