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- From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Campus bar peeve
- Message-ID: <28203@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:16:37 GMT
- References: <28191@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
-
- >ObMikeHolmesBait: The guvmint deciding that the economy will perk right up
- >once home-owners get a bit more help with their mortgages.
-
- hehe. Amazing innit? Mortgage rates have come down from 16% to 8.5% and
- house prices are now falling faster than they ever have.
-
- The guvmint has ploughed in 3/4 billion of *our* loot to buy 20,000
- reposessed properties off the market. If they gave me a slice of that
- loot then *I'd* buy one. It'd be just as sensible.
-
- This apparently is going to save the housing market despite the fact
- that 80,000 properties are reposessed every year and there are already
- 250,000 empty houses waiting to be sold (about equivalent to one years
- supply of first time buyers).
-
- The guvmint, despite spectacular failure in bucking markets a mere two
- months ago, has yet to acquire a clue.
-
- On the other hand, when they get around to simply bribing first time
- buyers with mortgage tax relief on 100,000 Pounds and twenty grand in
- hand if we'll only *please* buy a house, I'll be there with my clammy
- paw out. I've already decided that it's entire;y consistent with my
- philosophy to regard this as the guvmint simply surrendering some of the
- loot it has already extorted from me :-)
-
- Maybe I'll even buy Jeremy's flat if he's still trying to sell it :-)
-
- Of course, I'll underbid. It's mandatory in today's market after all ;-)
-
-
- >===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=
-
- FoFP
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- We wonder why other folks regard computing people as weird while we
- persistently refer to small, square objects as "discs".
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