Tim Barnes

No, the mother can get a family member or one of her parents or grandparents to look after the baby while she goes out to work The state should have no obligation to anyone who is able bodied and capable of work

I guess over the months I have become more cynical lol same as I have on areas like binge drinking and immigration/cultural identity/uk infrastructure, I guess as I am paying more and more tax I get less tolerant of those that take the p*** with it

Hope Croatia win the tournament ^_^ be great for Modric now that he is a Spurs player ^_^

This You Tube clip is well worth watching particularly when it reaches 1min 40 secs, and the bit at 1min 50 secs looks very dodgy indeed :o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbklgn0BUFI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbklgn0BUFI

Well why did he turn sharp left into Raikkonen when he was heading for Kubica ? the videos showed Hamilton turning sharp left, there can be no other explanation other than Hamilton knew he was toast and in a piece of quick thinking decided it would be more beneficial to him over the season to take out Kimi than Kubica

I am all for the genuinely sick and genuinely disabled being looked after by the welfare state and also pensions are not generous enough so yeah I have no prob with anyone claiming benefits that is genuinely unfit for work and has been verified as such by a specialist as well as their own GP In terms of single parents while this is going to sound harsh I guess but if someone can't afford to keep a child then they shouldn't have one, I don't see as a taxpayer why I should have to pay for people to have "career babies" (women who have a baby just to get a council flat and free money and so on) The single parent should be made to go out and work just like everyone else and earn money to pay for the upkeep of their kids I think the welfare system should be changed to with the exception of the disabled, chronically sick etc - You have 6 months to get a job or your money is stopped and no more handouts

Say for example you own a factory and employ 100 workers on minimum wage on a production line, the government puts the minimum wage up to £9 an hour and each employee does 40 hrs a week that is an extra £120 a week PER WORKER with 100 workers thats an extra £12,000 a week and £600,000 a year Now where is that extra £600,000 going to come from ? there is no magic money tree that can be shaken to fund their wages it is going to come out of 2 ways 1) Increasing prices or 2) laying off workers or a combination of the 2 if 1 happened then the knock on effect for the economy across the board would bring about 2 aswell If you think that industry can afford a big increase in the minimum wage then your understanding of economics and running businesses is very low

Like I said to Chris if wages are put up too high then prices will in turn shoot up so will inflation and this will lead to job losses for the very people you are preaching about protecting, the low paid ones are the most vulnerable in those sort of situations so just jacking up the minimum wage big times will put the very people you are talking about here out of work I am not talking bollocks mate just economic realities, paying say £9-10 an hour or whatever to young, largely unskilled, workers will damage the economy and put them out of work

Then the amount of the minimum wage itself is not the problem but the enforcement of it is

It is not impossible yes but what politicians like above all else is power and the GOP bumping off Obama would for certain see a Democrat in the White House with a massive landslide as the sympathy vote would go to the Democrats so the GOP have nothing to gain having Obama bumped off unless of course they used it to cancel elections and declare a state of emergency thus keeping Bush in power but I have probably been watching too many movies lol but yeah just don't see what the GOP would gain bumping off Obama

Bin Laden was converted to anti America when Saudi Arabia let America use their soil to attack Iraq but the main reason for 9/11 was America's support of Israel over the Palestinians and Clinton (and indeed Obama recently) was a big supporter of Israel too so he is part culpable for 9/11 9/11 while carried out in 2001 was organised and planned as far back as 1997 which was under Clinton's watch before Bush was even talked about as a Republican candidate let alone elected, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that 9/11 was planned for 4 years 9/11 was America's payback from Bin Laden for supporting and arming Israel so ALL presidents were to blame not just Bush

Nah the Republicans wouldn't do that, the outpouring of grief would be so high that a Democrat would win by a landslide with the sympathy vote I would say that Hillary is a far bigger danger to Obama, if reports are correct (Vince Foster for instance) it wouldn't be the first time the Clinton's have had people bumped off and if Obama was killed she would get the nomination

True but that is what got Bush in again in 2004 Bin Laden's speech supporting John Kerry, Bush making a big issue about national security and spreading fear among the American people I would say it is quite possible that in the run up to the election there is a big CIA authorised anthrax scare or the CIA conveniently uncover a plot to blow up American planes and scare the American people into not voting Obama, politics is a dirty business But in terms of 9/11 that took place under Bush but it had 3/4 years of planning by Al Qaeda so the whole 9/11 thing was planned while Clinton was still in office so Bush can't really be blamed for causing 9/11

This bit I agree with for sure, it would not surprise me if the KKK, a Timothy McVeigh type lunatic or even senior figures within his own party would like him bumped off

Reasons why McCain will win 1) He is promising tax cuts while Obama will need to raise taxes to fund his changes 2) Obama is black, there is still a lot of deep rooted racism in America particularly in southern and central states 3) McCain has 20 years of Senate experience and Obama has 3 4) The Republicans will play the Al Qaeda / national security card to scare people off from voting Obama

I still think McCain will win and probably quite easily Obama is merely leading because with the Republican race ending very early on he has had months of column inches in the media and people have been wowed by his speechmaking while McCain has had little or no airtime, that will change when the real race gets started, Obama will be under very strong scrutiny from the McCain camp about his policies and how he is going to fund them and I can see the wheels falling off the bandwagon when people realise that taxes will shoot up under Obama when he has to finance this "need for change" he talks about so smoothly, the time for posturing is over and soon Obama will have to explain where the money is coming from for this change he talks about so yes I see McCain winning this contest Obama is a one trick pony, a brilliant speech maker but his lack of political experience at a volatile time for the world in terms of economy and security is a scary thought

For once I agree with the SNP Responsible drinking is fine, chavs drinking themselves into oblivion and causing destruction and mayhem isn't so the best way to take chavs out of the equation is an end to cheap booze and making prices prohibitively high, yes that inconveniences responsible drinkers but if it is a way to stop young chavs getting hold of alcohol then so be it A pint of beer is like £4 in Sweden and other alcohol is very expensive yet you can walk the streets at night in safety and drink related crime is so low to be barely on the radar, the Scandanavian example should be bought in here

Brilliant all round performer, could sing any type of music well Love the earlier stuff and he also proved his rock credentials with Mama Told Me Not To Come and Unbelieveable

Jeff Healey - While My Guitar Gently Weeps George Michael - Somebody To Love

AC/DC with Bon Scott not Brian Johnson

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

Randy Rhoads Jeff Buckley

Can't compare the 2 Kimi lost control at 200kmh with graining tyres and lost it when he tried to correct a slide in the wet Hamilton didn't see a red light and when he did and knew he was going to crash he turned sharp left to deliberately take out Kimi as taking out Kimi was more benificial to him than taking out Kubica who he would have hit had he stayed on his then trajectory Most blatant piece of cheating since Jerez 97 My hatred of Hamilton increased significantly after Canada

I like Big Phil but not sure he will adapt to English football Thank god they never went for Ramos

Please Roman get bored :cheer: :cheer: