tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19769829.post351240123322025655..comments2024-02-09T19:44:17.241+00:00Comments on AngloAustria: ExodusJack Maturinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00903651577858853608noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19769829.post-64982954234078128962009-01-14T10:32:00.000+00:002009-01-14T10:32:00.000+00:00"It is now time to start leaving the country."May ..."It is now time to start leaving the country."<BR/><BR/>May I add that people need to be thinking about, and doing this, as soon as is feasible. Not far down the road will be controls designed to stop all types of resources leaving the country - from financial to people themselves. <BR/><BR/>When the govt can't get people to take on its debt - say next year - expect a campaign against greedy investors choosing to invest abroad rather than in the mother couuntry that has given them "free" education, health care, a pension etc... This will mirror the current treatment of bankers. As net emigration rises significantly the same rules will be applied, stopping people taking their savings and investments with them where possible. And then when stopping people taking their wealth with them doesn't stop the emigration expect formal controls on people leaving. You also have to consider the context: further economic stagnation and even deteioration and hyperinflation (the latter fuelled by Brown's/Mandy's frankly ridiculous monetary policy). As with the banking crisis this will all be blamed on the market: the rich who invest abroad, the producers who increase their prices to exploit the poor, the capitlaists who have selfishly bled the country dry and are now leaving. For a while at least I would expect Labour to have a field day as thy exploit people's desperation at their plight and kick their favourite "hate groups" to build up support.<BR/><BR/>This may sound extreme but then so much as happened in the last 11 years that people would never have expected to happen back in 1996 ranging from ID cards, the rapid extension of CCTV almost everywhere you go, govt building up super data basees that will contain so much detail about our private lives, the anti terrorist legislation which is justified by the contemptuous retort to all opposition: "Oh ... got sthg to hide have you????", the rapid extension of statism in the economy in the light of the economic downturn. Unfairly or not free market ideas have been firmly discredited in the eyes of many as a result of the mishandling of the world economy by govts and central banks. As a result the only credible and legitimate response popularly is seen to be increased government control over our livesw. And when the results of their interventions are not to the liking of the govt's themselves they will simply blame the market and extend control even further, deleting even more apects of our once private worlds. After all its all in the national interest and only people with sthg to hide or selfish would dare to want to do anything else.not an economisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08679610738502901666noreply@blogger.com