Reply #35: Generalisations

[paraguay]

You have made a huge assumption from journalism and leftist spin.A few bankers make bets and signs and they get generalised to 'scum', this is generalisation from the particular. If we take this literally the protestors assaulted police officers and caused damage to banks so therefore they are criminals so on your logic all of the protestors are 'criminals'.

As for 8% this is a short sited estimate as you have forgotten that the majority of their salaries are spent in the UK and therefore a more conservative estimation they contribute 16- 25% as an industry due to the amount of industries that rely upon them a simple example being cleaners.Money going abroad is a thing of the yester year and you are ignoring taxation reforms of 1998,2001 and 2004 which were all under a centre left labour government so you should be satisfied.

A state owned banking system would never have made the same contribution to wealth, soveriegn wealth funds maybe but we are not allowed those due to the Blairite years, a common theme another centre left politician. State owned anything has gone wrong Gordon Brown spent away the profits of old, put it this way I am glad I did not have to bank with him. Further more state owned banks for the long term are inherently against democracy which we are living in (although you may argue it is a sham).

As for the concept of being able to rob the economy this is a ludricous standpoint for an argument formulated upon leftist ideas. Economic Determinist you should be and therfore the economy always is right and unfoolable. These banks are part of the 'economy' do not portray them as a separate entity which they are not!

As for the man who died he died of natrual cause (rest his soul)although it must be conceded that betting was wrong but again this is generalisation from the particular.

As for gambit on bankers being attacked this I do not mean literally I mean as in the sense that their way of life and livelyhoods are being attacked and their moral status degraded by people targetting their aggression at a social phenomenon'greed' which is a result of every member of the UK