"Hamish" wrote in message
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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The Brazilians are under no obligation to reduce their standard of living
for the privilege of selling us food. What have you got to sell them in
exchange?



As I have said a long while back the fundemental activities of food
production, housing and defence have been underrewarded compared with the
general employment market.

The wages of plumbers, plasterers and brickies have risen over the last
few years, the army has a severe recruitment problem
and as you observe the foreighner is no longer a reliable supplier of
cheap food.

In any system the tendency is to move towards the average, we live
substantualy above the world average. The industrial revolution brought us
above the average, we are no longer a world industrial innovator.

Buy your HD 42 inch home cinema TV, sitting at home in the dark is all we
will be able to afford soon.


yes, one thing that worries me is that 'banking' is going to see us through.

UK citizen wanting to buy food
Brazilian wondering if he needs to sell it

Brazilian. What can you give me for this food
UK We can supply you with banking
Brazilian Banking?
UK Yes, we have a large branch network, a few wizz kids in the city and a
lot of call centres in India, and now Brazil
Brazilian We have our own branch network, our own call centres, and if we
need wizz kids then we'll pay them slightly more than you do and they can
live in nice houses in a nice climate and not in your squalid cities with
substandard schools and health service.

Somehow I cannot imagine the Brazilians giving us food for banking

Jim Webster