|
|
Post by Polina on Apr 8, 2009 22:08:11 GMT -1
Not how we want him to get in the news, but here's an article that hit Google late last night. |
|
|
|
Post by Fanny Bones on Apr 9, 2009 0:54:33 GMT -1
Thanks, Polina! :-) Not how we want him to get in the news This is true on more than one level. This news may lead to hostile headlines and comments from envious people. I hope that won't happen too often. The opening of the original article cracked me up. It starts with the words: "This will cheer you up. I lost a big sum of money recently."He's right. This will probably cheer me up, but not because of schadenfreude. Quite the opposite, I'd say. He can take it without losing the basis of his existence and still be our voice to tell the world how it feels to be ripped off. Yes, it's not very funny (to say the least!). Even if you can afford it.
And tomorrow I will read the article I've just written about. ;D |
|
|
|
Post by Polina on Apr 9, 2009 9:48:04 GMT -1
Yes indeed, FB. Pleased to see that the comment so far seems largely sensible and not meanspirited.
I think it's a good thing that someone so articulate and clear thinking can, as you say, be the voice for the rest of us. Says she, whose hardwon personal pension plan appears to have disappeared in a puff of smoke. Wish he really HAD been made chairman of the FSA!
|
|
|
|
Post by Fanny Bones on Apr 9, 2009 22:23:49 GMT -1
Yes indeed, FB. Pleased to see that the comment so far seems largely sensible and not meanspirited. Yes, but I can't really blame someone having lost their job and all for being cross about the article, especially if it was a job that didn't allow them to save any money at all. When you're in such a situation this article can sound a bit like complaining about a broken fingernail while standing next to a person with an amputated leg. Says she, whose hardwon personal pension plan appears to have disappeared in a puff of smoke.  Oh, my! It just makes you scream, doesn't it? Wish he really HAD been made chairman of the FSA!  Noooooooo: We drones make our money by luck and talent, by inventing things or creating things, and not by accountancy, so we are doomed to be the patsies of the financial sector. These words don't really built my trust in his financial capabilities.  |
|
|
|
Post by Polina on Apr 10, 2009 9:50:45 GMT -1
Oh indeed - I'd never blame anyone for being fed up and think he was complaining about nothing; after all even after losing a substantial amount of it I'd put hard cash on him having a damn site more money than I have, in that he actually has some. But I think she missed the point - he wasn't asking for sympathy, just saying how outrageous the situation was, with which I entirely agree!
There was a lengthy exchange on the Clive Anderson show where he put the boot in to the bankers, and that led to a comment about him becoming chairman of the FSA. Let's face it, he could hardly do any worse.....
|
|
Oh, my! It just makes you scream, doesn't it? 
Noooooooo: