tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post3765292927460541575..comments2024-03-28T00:20:01.688-05:00Comments on Little Blog In The Big Woods: Really Great Britain points the way...Greenpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-11064095385444973732011-02-25T01:02:45.374-06:002011-02-25T01:02:45.374-06:00Great isn't it? The rich are still getting ric...Great isn't it? The rich are still getting richer whilst playgrounds in the poorest areas, speech and language therapists, and specialists in child mental health are being axed from the social care teams.<br />I suppose the current government policies are at least applying a lot of selective pressure to develop the non-monetary economy. It's forcing localization because fuel is one of the things most people have to have money for. Our family are trying to do everything we can without cash to keep our cash for the things we really need it for. Starting to look a bit amish here at our little house in the city! =D<br /> Doing so not is only reducing my carbon footprint and making a move towards global justice, enacting what I understand to be the christian imperative, it's also more robust. Very much an "anyway" move.<br />Meanwhile <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/05/rereading-howard-brenton-robert-tressell" rel="nofollow">the Guardian recently had a story about the Great Money Trick, as featured in the 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'</a>. It sounds like a reasonable account of the rotten system to me. I wonder what kind of political backlash will happen. I think their current policies are based on desperately attempting to keep the money-gamblers in the City of London in the country. I suppose there is a trap composed of the interest rates on government debt, which would soar if the financial markets turned against UK govt policies, so they and we are in the jaws of it.Alice Y.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16267449289432878102noreply@blogger.com