I Am Thinking Of Calling It A Day

[the biffster]

i am thinking of calling it a day curtain
reasons i dont think i will be able to stay on line
as i might be homeless shortly due to things that
happened in the budget i will not be able to come
back into fishkeeping and like i said cant
set up a tank if you dont have anywhere to live
there is also another few things that eating at me
at the moment so i will give a long hard thinking about
but i cant see any way out of this its looking more direr
as the days go by good luck chaps and good fishkeeping
just as you think things are getting better then someone
comes along and ****** on your cornflakes


the biffster

 

[Jenste]

I am so sorry. I hope thinks work out quickly for you. you have been a great addition to this forum! I hope things get resolved quickly for you my friend.

 

[the biffster]

 

[Ashley1991]

hope you manage to find someway of keeping everything biffster would be sad to see you go after all the help you gave me

its not fair what there doing

good luck biffster thinking of you bud

Ash

 

[the biffster]

hope you manage to find someway of keeping everything biffster would be sad to see you go after all the help you gave me

its not fair what there doing

good luck biffster thinking of you bud

Ash

what make it worse is i have just be called an idiot
on here as well only adding fuel to the fire on a post called fin rot

 

[simonas]

Biffster I know its for financial reasons and some things have to give to ensure you can live but I hope you can sort things out

The new budget had left me in a mess as well if the proposed plans that effect my job come in

Its a nightmare isn;t it!!

Goood luck pal

 

[seffieuk]

Good luck, fingers crossed for you and we will certainly miss you

Seffie x

 

[the biffster]

why do they always pick on the ones that cant fight
back its not my fault i ended up like this i worked
all the hours that was sent and what do i get for it
they tar everyone with the same brush it doesnt matter
what benefit your on your classed as a scrounger which
is not true these people dont live in the real world i
think the should get out and about in the uk and they would
see what they have done to this country .they say its down
to people not want to work they also say there is loads
of jobs enough for every one.they way they are going around
it they are just going to dump another 2.5 mill on the dole
Que its not that people dont want to work its just that there
is a fundamental lack of jobs out there for them to do as they
are inexperienced or not qualified at all for the jobs that are
there its not the people of the uk its bad decisions by the government and also the health and safety rules it was also down to the bankers as
well gambling they government bailed them out isn't it about time they bailed the
uk out i just feel like i have been let down by some one i voted in .
remember government you bow to the people of the uk as it was them that put you there
you upset them and they will have you out just as quick they put you in
dont #101## some one off when you have hold of the grenade and they have hold of the pin
there was loads of ways they could of made cut backs and i know that i think this lot
want to get rich quick all the things they are proposing is going to kill any
chance of the uk getting back on its feet i will give them 12 to 15 months and
that will be them kicked out some one i was talking to says they will only be
in six months as there is already sign of cracks appearing


i wrote this as its the way i feel its not ment ot offend
any one in any way or form

 

[JoshuaA]

JC+ is a joke they're insultive and completely unhelpful. I found work by myself after just going around asking larger stores. I've moved on and am waiting for university to start what I want to do.

JC+ specifically tried to push me towards things I didn't want to do just so I could get off their books, and even then looking back I'd probably be still looking for a job if I followed their advice.

The problem with the "scrounger" thing is that there are some people who do use it as a living. My neighbour has about 6 kids + some others who I've never seen! We live in a quiet neighbourhood called Irby... Simonas might know it . Anyway this guy was working to his credit but he actually just spent all his earnt money on TV/Xbox games etc etc and dare I say it drugs . Now he doesn't work at all after a nervous breakdown about a year ago and is still capable of buying new sofas more TVs new computers etc etc. He has no problem at all keeping a living. Where as other people I know who are on benefits literally are just scraping through, and you sound like one of them or if not worse not being able to scrape through.

The budget isn't fair currently... and yes it's needed but a 20% VAT shafts everyone but specifically the poorer more so. That has really infuriated me, I think I will be ordering from abroad with "Send as gift" option .

It's not nice to see someone you know *indirectly* being effected so seriously by recent events. I do wish you the best and hope you can somehow at least keep yourself going and under a roof. However as fish keeping isn't a necessity it would be smart if you can see you will have financial difficulties over the next few years to probably part of some of your equipment.

Good Luck

Edit:

On the government aspect...

I wanted UKIP in but of course that wasn't going to happen. A ConDem coalition was probably the worse probable outcome I think. Cameron as much as I didn't like him I would much prefer to see him in power alone rather than power sharing with his bum chum Clegg.

Cameron threw some of his policies out the window like they didn't exist to make the deal with Lib Dem. I prefer to see Camerons face but when I see Cleggs gegging into the press conference like a lost puppy I cheese me off. When their policies are so different and Clegg has a stranglehold on Cameron... they're not going to get very far.

Solution... Vote the Josh Party... I will invest in sending a probe to jupiter with a British flag and in the mean time I will start portioning off Jupiter at cost other nations. I will then adopt the MRLP 3 socks to a pair and 99p coin. Interested?

 

[the biffster]

JC+ is a joke they're insultive and completely unhelpful. I found work by myself after just going around asking larger stores. I've moved on and am waiting for university to start what I want to do.

JC+ specifically tried to push me towards things I didn't want to do just so I could get off their books, and even then looking back I'd probably be still looking for a job if I followed their advice.

The problem with the "scrounger" thing is that there are some people who do use it as a living. My neighbour has about 6 kids + some others who I've never seen! We live in a quiet neighbourhood called Irby... Simonas might know it . Anyway this guy was working to his credit but he actually just spent all his earnt money on TV/Xbox games etc etc and dare I say it drugs . Now he doesn't work at all after a nervous breakdown about a year ago and is still capable of buying new sofas more TVs new computers etc etc. He has no problem at all keeping a living. Where as other people I know who are on benefits literally are just scraping through, and you sound like one of them or if not worse not being able to scrape through.

The budget isn't fair currently... and yes it's needed but a 20% VAT shafts everyone but specifically the poorer more so. That has really infuriated me, I think I will be ordering from abroad with "Send as gift" option .

It's not nice to see someone you know *indirectly* being effected so seriously by recent events. I do wish you the best and hope you can somehow at least keep yourself going and under a roof. However as fish keeping isn't a necessity it would be smart if you can see you will have financial difficulties over the next few years to probably part of some of your equipment.

Good Luck

Edit:

On the government aspect...

I wanted UKIP in but of course that wasn't going to happen. A ConDem coalition was probably the worse probable outcome I think. Cameron as much as I didn't like him I would much prefer to see him in power alone rather than power sharing with his bum chum Clegg.

Cameron threw some of his policies out the window like they didn't exist to make the deal with Lib Dem. I prefer to see Camerons face but when I see Cleggs gegging into the press conference like a lost puppy I cheese me off. When their policies are so different and Clegg has a stranglehold on Cameron... they're not going to get very far.

Solution... Vote the Josh Party... I will invest in sending a probe to jupiter with a British flag and in the mean time I will start portioning off Jupiter at cost other nations. I will then adopt the MRLP 3 socks to a pair and 99p coin. Interested?

theres the honest ones and the the dishonest ones
and they are always the ones who come out of smelling
of roses which just go's to prove if your as straight as a die as honest as the day is long you get treated like **** if you dishonest you get treated like a lord
and better thought of

 

[JoshuaA]

theres the honest ones and the the dishonest ones
and they are always the ones who come out of smelling
of roses which just go's to prove if your as straight

Labour kept us mostly happy for the last few years albeit running us into debt, I think whether or not we were in this situation Cameron would be heavy handed on benefits as he despises them. Unfortunately someone will no doubt be shafted and someone will get shafted more than the others. Usually its the ones who don't deserve it get the most.

"Honest is the best policy" Doesn't work in politics not even relationships

"Does I look fat?" NO!

 

[chrisbassist]

Vat increase doesn't punish the poor more than the rich, things classed as necessities are vat free anyway. It's people who buy more luxuries who pay the price there.

But benefits, that's a tough one, on the one hand something needs to be done about the people who do just want hand outs, on the other, there are people who genuinely want to work.

I remember a couple of years ago I went into a job centre. I asked for help getting a job (isn't that why they're there?). And they refused to help because I hadn't signed on.

I didn't want (or really need) their money. I just wanted a job. The money could be better spent on the people who were desperate. But what I did need was some help.

If you ask me the job centres number 1 priority should be to help people find jobs, apply for jobs, prepare for interviews, and give other related advice. Giving money out should be secondary. Reserved for the people who need it, and only given to people who are either actively looking for a job, or are trying to train to be able to get a job. There has to be a way of weeding out the scum who don't deserve it without harming people like you.

 

[JoshuaA]

Vat increase doesn't punish the poor more than the rich, things classed as necessities are vat free anyway. It's people who buy more luxuries who pay the price there.

So I'm not earning that much but I need a car or a TV I have to pay 20% tax, it's not necessarily a necessity nor a luxury. That 20% means a lot more to me when I'm not earning much as say... someone who is earning double that myself who buys the same TV or Car and still only gets taxed the same. So what my other option is not having a TV or getting the bus or taxi and paying VAT indirectly on that anyway incorporated in the price of both. VAT really does shaft the poor.

VAT isn't a cool tax and isn't very fair. It only excludes baby clothes and food... so it really means it only helps you eat. Where as say buying new bed linen or washing up or even toilet paper is in my eyes a necessity. Will once again hurt a lower earner than a higher earner much more.

 

[ian]

I didn't hear anyone moan when vat was lowered? We all knew it was gonna go back up to 20%. btw it's not just the poor who ha e been hit, anyone earning over 20k has also had a battering. It's time to tighten the purse strings. Let's not all blame the govenment, they didn't make everyone go out and buy that 42 inch flat screen on hp.

 

[JoshuaA]

I didn't hear anyone moan when vat was lowered? We all knew it was gonna go back up to 20%. btw it's not just the poor who ha e been hit, anyone earning over 20k has also had a battering. It's time to tighten the purse strings. Let's not all blame the govenment, they didn't make everyone go out and buy that 42 inch flat screen on hp.

Its the implications it brings, I don't think I made any saving on the 15% VAT decrease. I looked consistently at my receipts to read 15% VAT yet looked at the prices and they were identical. The saving was passed onto the store only in most cases, the only company I received the benefit from was O2.

"Tightening" up the purse strings isn't the best idea nor is letting lose. Though hitting those people who want to buy so called "luxuries" hard isn't the best idea. A lot of businesses and shops revolve around purely selling luxuries... the sales of these may well crash hard and what will be left to blame when we find out economy is even worse off afterwards.

Of course this can go a multiple of ways with car production up by 50% in may or something this year. Though in 6 months or so after the VAT increase we will be able to see the effects.

I'm going to stay out of this one from now on, there's no way to support or disprove it but VAT in the end isn't a very fair form of tax although it will be with us much longer than our own bodies will be.