Serious cuts to welfare are guaranteed to tank the economy because every penny of that gets spent on consumption. That coupled with a rapid shift to consumption taxes would cause a depression-level r… (View Post)

Same here (View Post)

No apple trees but about a dozen non-fruit trees: birch, maple, willow, that type of thing. Mrs P. is manically watering to get them through their first summer. (View Post)

George I would have failed the Secure English Language Test. (View Post)

Yes, well done Gemini ;-) I think those two examples were rather the inevitable consequences of an existential fight thankfully won by the Allies. (@MattW too) (View Post)