Whitey Grandad

Lucky to own your own home? What does luck have to do with it? Pay your mortgage for twenty-five years and you will.

What about them? They are getting their housing paid for them.

What about those getting their housing paid for them?

There weren't learning disabilities when I was young. My grandad used to say 'put in the hard work when you're young so that you won't have to when you're older'. Life's not fair, the poor are with you always. If you don't reward hard work, thrift and enterprise then nobody will have anything. I didn't exactly ignore the part about where he got his starting capital from, I had to rush off to my nurse again and it was not strictly relevant to the point I was making. He also used £4500 of his own money and I'm sure the rest was lent at interest, but Freddie is not my example of an ideal entrepreneur, I was merely saying that if you think that success is all down to luck then you are completely mistaken. If it were then nobody would ever need to take any risks, go out on a limb, put in twice as many hours as somebody else, they could just sit around and wait for providence. As a society we need to reward enterprise else we shall not have the associated employment or tax revenues.

Millions of others were also born in the same rich country. What makes you think that intelligence is all down to luck? Some youngsters stay in and do their home work, others like to hang out behind the shed smoking. Some go to the library and borrow books, others sit around chatting. Life is what you make it.

Freddie Laker said that people used to accuse him of being lucky. He replied that everybody has opportunities in life but that very few grasp those opportunities and take the risks involved.

Of course it is. Life's not fair. Deal with it and move on.

What's all that wailing and gnashing of teeth going on in the background?

I replaced all my tvs earlier this year. In our conservatory I have a 40" Samsung 3D with a PS3 that I bought on my son's advice. As it happens the tv does most of what the PS3 did except play games and discs. You can put a USB memory stick in and record program's but it only has one tuner. I passed the PS3 onto my grandson and now have a Virgin TiVo box which does almost everything too. The tvs are 'only' a few hundred quid.

Do I detect a certain prejudice?

You're probably right, but a minor is not legally able to decide to go willingly.

Did you really think I was serious?

Tweaked, or torn?

To be honest what I expected is what we have. I would probably have hoped for an extra point or so from Wigan. From those four games: nul points.

That's a bit of a feeble argument really. 'Better world', 'unequal society'? What is more equal than everybody paying the same? It will all work at least as well with lower taxes all round. Take a look at Hong Kong. And creating new jobs leads to more taxes.

But he wouldn't be playing against us.

Probably couldn't even spell it, nor know where it is.

But the have nots never end up any havier. They just go from have-nots to have-nothing's.

Sorry, don't see the connection?

I said it wouldn't last.

It won't last. What's going to happen when the money runs out?

On trial for what?

Did you mean knob, by any chance? Just checking, like.

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