Just make sure you raise a glass to your hard earned local government pension Ray, and keep counting down the days to it

You can count on it.Working for the same company for 40 years,8 months and 7 days deserves some recognition and I'm pleased you recognize that

Does that include the bit about wiping out the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other groups on Adolf's shitlist?

I thought they might be, so I dug a little harder and found the full list, which is slightly different -

Insurance Premiums $156,000
Legal Expenses $92,000
Cemetery Maintenance $29,000
Mott The Hoople Rare record collection $120,000
Town Building Maintenance $52,000
Police Department $1,31,000
Fire Department $265,000
Ambulance $8,000
Building Inspection $89,000
Secure storage building for record collection $512,000
Highway Department $1,155,000
Street Lights $4,000
Pest Control $10,000
Waste Disposal $349,000
Superior hifi for listening to superb record collection $150,000
Sewer and Water Expenses $12,000
Welfare Assistance $19,500
Library $167,000
Fund for following Ian Hunter gigs around the world $55,000
Parks and Recreation Department $39,000
Total Town Expenditures $5,145,000

There might be more if you can just crack the hidden codes a bit deeper.

G

Good post Gra, glad to see you taking it seriously

Yes. I've said many times that conservatives are implementing Free Market Genocide in their race to deregulate as much and anything across the board. Free Market Genocide is not limited to the United States. The Greeks are being forced to take cuts in wages, social services, healthcare, public pensions, education, and offer up for sale public assets (airports, ports, public utilities (water, electricity), etc), craft laws that limits civil rights all in exchange for loans from the IMF and EU Central Bank. Austerity measures are just a polite way of saying private companies are stealing from the public. Once the austerity measures are implemented it causes a canibalistic social Darwinistic society and the weakest and must vunerable are killed off because they cannot afford life basics like food, water, shelter, health care, or able defend themselves in the legal system, and have society provide their children with a public school education, etc.

Merkel is using bankers and austerity measures to sanitize her crime of genocide, ie Free Market Genocide. And Merkel gets her insidious free market reforms from conservative think tanks like the Hoover Institute.

Grastark

You forgot the cost of the blue circular plaque for the Rutland Arms 'Mott the Hoople fans lived here 1-6 October 2009'

plus the cost of the unveiling ceremony where someone (Joe probably) makes a speech and pulls back the curtains.

Cost $30000 with beer

Someone tell the Landlord we're coming this time

and I thought Greece's problems where caused by them being broke and the people lending them money were trying to protect their investment.Glad you cleared it up for me........

Greece has a lot of problems and the solution currently being presented is not in the best interest of the Greeks.

that will be on the UK list. My deep level research was from a town in NH USA accounts.

I did a little searching in the UK and although these items were actually on a proposal, they were cancelled apparently due to some folk (possibly from north of the border) refusing to pay their subs - so they had to make some cuts......

G

Justin,

The Council contribute nothing, its the taxpayer who pays over the odds for everything. Maybe its different in the USA.

Btw, a wee article I read earlier. 6 Soldiers have lost their pensions worth £108 thousand, they got paid off with just 3 days to go which would have seen them complete their service for their country. They will have to wait till they are 65 now, lovely Government policy.

and I'm sure if you or I were in debt to the same extent as Greece the solution put forward by our banks wouldn't be in our best interests...........It's a hard world when reality bites

I think everyone else here understood the gist of my question - i.e. was any money that was collected by the council through taxation expended on services. Each time you strain like this to avoid answering a straightforward question, that rip in the fabric of your credibility gets a little bigger.



Another bit of CRFM circular logical. If I say I believe you, you are right. If I say I don't believe you, you are still right.

Justin
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The question is: Did CRFM come before or after the TEA Partyy?

Justin,

I think everyone knows the Council puts some of the money they get from taxpayers towards services, but the little booklet they send every year to explain where "their money is spent" is misleading and no one queries it. (well I do) The money the Council receive from the Government grant and Council tax is supposed to be spent on Hospitals/roads/building etc, it is not. They are investing taxpayers money and the money collected from the stock market is not going back towards the community, work it out for yourself. We have a population of 50.500 in the area where I live, there is 28 million payed out on benefits to the people in my area, I find that shocking and it makes me wonder if its worth working.

Kevin,
I don't go to parties that only serve tea

Btw, talking of Hospitals, here is something I knew before but its nice to see a Doctor admit it.............

Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year

Professor says doctors use 'death pathway' to euthenasia of the elderly
Treatment on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours
Around 29 per cent of patients that die in hospital are on controversial 'care pathway'
Pensioner admitted to hospital given treatment by doctor on weekend shift

NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.

Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.

He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country.

It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent.

It can include withdrawal of treatment – including the provision of water and nourishment by tube – and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.

There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent – 130,000 – are of patients who were on the LCP.

Professor Pullicino claimed that far too often elderly patients who could live longer are placed on the LCP and it had now become an ‘assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway’.

He cited ‘pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients’ as factors.

Professor Pullicino revealed he had personally intervened to take a patient off the LCP who went on to be successfully treated.

He said this showed that claims they had hours or days left are ‘palpably false’.

In the example he revealed a 71-year-old who was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia and epilepsy was put on the LCP by a covering doctor on a weekend shift.