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      12-31-2012, 06:44 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by Guvernator View Post

Many people are far too lazy when it comes to securing their financial future. You need to adopt a different attitude, take control of it yourself and take positive steps to ensure that you come up with something that works for you so that you aren't left at the whim of others.
This says it all for me. Take control of your own destiny, i have attempted to. However, when the arseholes in power keep changing the regulatory landscape every few years (often for the worse) it grinds you down.

Whilst I am in a blindingly grumpy mood, the facts in this article piss me off like nothing else:

"In the years between 2003 and 2010, Labour spent a staggering £171bn on tax credits, contributing to a 60% rise in the welfare bill,"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20873180

Whoever said socialism was dead, this is yet another strand of Gordo Brown's everlasting legacy....the redistribution of wealth and cultivation of the Welfare State dependancy, maybe Sir William Beveridge is turning in his grave.
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