donkey Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 They are registering profits in that country not exports, the exports are the things made there and exported, imports are made somewhere else and imported, they export more than they import. Or that is what you have decided to believe because the truth doesn't square with your dogma. I know what exports are. I'm not the one displaying wilful economic illiteracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Or that is what you have decided to believe because the truth doesn't square with your dogma. I know what exports are. I'm not the one displaying wilful economic illiteracy. Exports Commodities: small specialty machinery, dental products, stamps, hardware, pottery. Imports Commodities: agricultural products, raw materials, machinery, metal goods, textiles, foodstuffs, motor vehicles. The exports are the things that are made in Liechtenstein, by the people that live there. They are not made by companies registered in Liechtenstein but made somewhere else. So back to my original statement they make more than they use and export more than they import. This has nothing to do with the thousands of companies that just register an address there for tax advantages. For you to be correct there would need to be thousands of companies making small specialty machinery, dental products, stamps, hardware, pottery, which is clearly not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uptowngirl Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 BBC report There's only so much a populace can take. Viva La France I can see how some nutter who has never held political office but promises an alternative to paying off past debts might seem an attractive proposition. When France's interest rates on its debts start spiralling to those of Greece and Italy it might not seem quite so attractive. Vive la Common Sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Some people forget that we went through the process of booting out a party that made things worse. It was labour back in 2010. We chose our government and they have a 5 year mandate to govern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 One step closer to Eurozone collapse. I concur. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Some people forget that we went through the process of booting out a party that made things worse. It was labour back in 2010. We chose our government and they have a 5 year mandate to govern. Not strictly true. Tories didn't get many more votes than Labour, and the LibDems campaigned on policies which were virtuaslly the exact opposite of what they campaigned on. A minorty party enfocing it's will on the majority through the complicity of a smaller party which gained its position in government by deceiving the electorate is hardly a 'mandate.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Not strictly true. Tories didn't get many more votes than Labour, and the LibDems campaigned on policies which were virtuaslly the exact opposite of what they campaigned on. How do you square that claim with the fact that roughly one-third of the LibDem manifesto actually made it into government policy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Exports Commodities: small specialty machinery, dental products, stamps, hardware, pottery. Imports Commodities: agricultural products, raw materials, machinery, metal goods, textiles, foodstuffs, motor vehicles. The exports are the things that are made in Liechtenstein, by the people that live there. They are not made by companies registered in Liechtenstein but made somewhere else. So back to my original statement they make more than they use and export more than they import. This has nothing to do with the thousands of companies that just register an address there for tax advantages. For you to be correct there would need to be thousands of companies making small specialty machinery, dental products, stamps, hardware, pottery, which is clearly not the case. Yes yes yes...and you seriously believe the excellent economic data (on paper) coming from Lichtenstein has no relationship at all to the fact that the principalitiy's complicity in tax evasion results in it having more than one foreign company registered for each one of its 35,000 citizens? Pull the other one, as they say, it has bells on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Yes yes yes...and you seriously believe the excellent economic data (on paper) coming from Lichtenstein has no relationship at all to the fact that the principalitiy's complicity in tax evasion results in it having more than one foreign company registered for each one of its 35,000 citizens? Vast amounts of foreign companies registered in Liechtenstein notwithstanding - it is actually possible that the population of the country export more goods than they import. For one thing, they have zero armed forces and almost no government; a populace of just about thirty thousand people does not require a great deal of governing. That does mean that a much larger percentage of its workforce can be directly employed in industry and services. Now, whether it's actually true that they export more than they import, I couldn't tell you; but certainly it is believable. Of course, it's believable for the exact same reason that Liechtenstein is a ridiculous country to use as a comparison to the UK. If you tried to abolish our entire armed forces and cut public sector employment by ninety per cent, you'd be out of office by next Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 How do you square that claim with the fact that roughly one-third of the LibDem manifesto actually made it into government policy? If I was entrusted with my neighbour's car on the understanding I would return it clean, full of fuel and undamaged, but returned it with a dent and empty, but hey, it's really clean....you get my drift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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