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March 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

At the Business.

The glee at Spitzer’s downfall and, well, Mary Riddell needs to brush up a little perhaps.

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  • 1 Andrew Zalotocky // Mar 12, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Journalists don’t have to be knowledgeable to be successful. All they need is a few good phrases and a human-interest angle.

    Basically it’s money for old trope.

  • 2 Dan // Mar 13, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Re Riddell:

    If subsidising consumption in this instance is bad (and I see where you’re coming from) what then for the old dear that can’t afford to heat their home, to a sufficient degree to survive, without the subsidy?

    People die. Snigger.

  • 3 john b // Mar 13, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    “what then for the old dear that can’t afford to heat their home, to a sufficient degree to survive, without the subsidy?”

    There are no such people. Simple.

  • 4 Dan // Mar 13, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    “There are no such people. Simple.”

    Nonsense. I visit them all the time. Without extra help from the Government, which is effectively a subsidy on the tariff, they cannot afford to pay their heating bills.

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