In effect, Clegg is saying:
Bankers: Sorry we've just fleeced you (just kidding). We're not going to pay you back for devaluing your savings, increasing your taxes (which we don't pay), destroying your small businesses, decreasing your services and generally, massively decreasing your standard of living.
And we're not going to pay for our deeds, in money terms or freedom terms; we'll keep our well-heeled lifestyles, thank you.
And Clegg is OK with that, presumably. He and the government are about to find out that the hacked off, impoverished public is not.
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Saddest of all, no one ouside libertarian circles even pauses to wonder why government and banks are in bed together.
In America we talk of a wall of separation between church and state. What we really need is a wall between corporations and state, with the state enforcing the rules for all equally instead of sponsoring taxpayer-funded orgies.
Couldn't agree more, Silverfiddle!
Globalisation has destroyed nationhood, in no small part, by allowing corporations to become so large that their budgets exceed those of governments. Their economic clout then becomes too great for governments to resist.
Silverfiddle, a positive step in that direction would entail the repeal of the 17th amendment.
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