G.A.W. Associates Ltd: April 2009

Hell's kitchen

Marco Pierre Porter (a.k.a. Owen).

(Don't let him near the knives.)

Don't we learn from history?

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Who said.....

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credit until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the state will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."

Answer..... Karl Marx in his Das Kapital (1867).

The only problem is, it seems, that this "quote" is as phony as it is fascinating.

How do I know that?

The following link goes to a full and unexpurgated translated version of Das Kapital that you can download (if you have the time and the inclination):

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm%20%3Chttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm%3E

I know the top photo isn't Karl either - (it's Uncle Joe) - but it's the only one of the right genre that I've taken on my travels.

Here is one of KM (that I didn't take).,

Privatisation of Public Conveniences

Uttlesford District Council has decided (because they have lost so much money due to gross incompetence) to outsource all its public conveniences (to supposedly save money and provide a better service).

Obviously a move suggested by an accountant (anyone with half a mind to be one is over equipt.)

Oscar Wilde (relative?) said "they know the cost of everything but the value of nothing."

They are not alone.

This could soon be Central Government policy.

Then, as with Telecomms (OffCom), Water (OffWat) and Energy (OffGen) there will be a need for a similarly toothless and biased policing authority.

What should we call it? I suggested OffPiss but Alex says BogOff is more appropriate.

Let me have your suggestions on the name, not on our sanity (or anything else).