30 June
I asked
the same questions on the ACC Facebook page and got snowed under with replies.
It seems that around 1998 they changed the system so that soldiers now get all
the money that was once stopped at source. They are expected to buy all the
food they want/need from that. Sounds good in theory but in practice it just
won’t work. In addition to that civilian catering companies have been brought
in to provide the service that the Corps was doing. We used to have around £2
per person to work with. Feeding 400 soldiers that made a great difference in
what could be provided. However, if the guys are getting that same amount then
they can’t buy at the same amounts. Then add in the profit margin the company
requires and the value of what money they do have is even lower.
Horses …
I’m not a lover of horses and fail to see why so many people go all soft and lovey
duvey over them. However, I am well aware that horses have played a large part
in the development of most if not all countries histories. Even so I don’t like
to see mistreated or neglected horses; so when I see the state of some of the
horses that are rescued by animal welfare groups in the US, I really do get
upset about it. Most the US was opened up by the horse, indeed it was the horse
that was the main transport available until the railways began in mid-19th
century. If any one group of people who know the role horses played, it has to
be Americans. So why do so many of them neglect and mistreat them in the way
they do? It beggars belief, it really does.
It looks
like Greece is about to drop out of the Euro and possible out of the EU as a
whole. For once I am pleased that one of our politians kept us out of the Euro.
As to Greece, well, someone on Facebook this morning asked where the borrowed
dosh went. That’s a good question actually. I have feeling that a lot of the
problems there is the way that so many Greeks pay their taxes, or don’t pay
them that is. I think back to when I was in Cyprus where the army employed a
lot of local people.
One guy I
had working for me also had a farm; he also ran a market stall in Larnaca as
well as working for us. Now then, he paid tax on his lowest paid job, and that
was working for us, and it was legal to do so. All the others were therefore
tax free. OK, that was in Cyprus, but from what I have heard, it’s pretty much
the same in Greece. I shared this story on Facebook once and one friend who
lives in Greece replied, ‘Sounds about right for all Greeks.’ If so, then that
is where the all dosh has gone, to pay for what the missing taxes should be
paying for. Although the UK hasn’t got any dosh outstanding to Greece in loans,
we will be hit because of our share of the EU as a whole.
Of course
here in the UK we have a similar situation when it comes to tax dodging. It has
apparently been worked out the if all the large corporations paid the correct taxes,
then the exchequer would £122billion richer and there would not have been any
need for the cuts that have gone on over the last few years. If that is right
then no particular governments is to blames really, they are all at fault for
not getting to grips with it.
Today’s
photo then …
A creamy-pinky-white flower a yard or two from the red one I posted
yesterday.
And today’s
funny …
One warm summer evening a mother was
driving with her three young children. A woman in the convertible in front of
them stood up and waved. She was STARK NAKED. As the mother was reeling from
shock, the five year old said, "Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat
belt!"
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