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There will be 'forces at play' trying to sort out the economy with all this in mind, but the front end government are always going to be 'It's under control, we're all happy chappy's'.
Personally, I think that subsidised driving lessons might be a better idea. To get to my previous job at the arcade (six days per week) costs me around £30 per week in bus fares. Using my own car, I was effectively paying around one-third of that on petrol per week. Even with fuel costs currently being criminally high, I would still find it far cheaper to drive to work than use buses. Must admit this solution would be little use for those in the big cities, though.
Erm i spend £20 a week on bus fares, and thats cheap as to what it would cost me in petrol.
You must have been driving very far to work then, spending £2 each day on fuel? And when you take the car payments into consideration, and the insurance, and the tax
it isnt all that cheap.
Driving isn't a right of some sort. So why should the government pay for people to be able to learn to drive?
:yes: People should learn to drive when they can afford it and afford to maintain a car as well. I dont live in a city area and the public transport links are good enough I dont need to learn to drive.
And what would be your suggestion for those that either dont want to drive or cant drive for some medical reason? Why should there taxes have to pay for subsidesed driving lessons?
yeah yeah it's contained, we've heard that one before...
the only forces at play are the PR and media madly trying to spin the blame on america and the 'subprime' mess, problem is much deeper than everyone wants to admit and truth is we're actually worse off than america in the long run because private and public debt per capita is higher and without london the UK is fubared. the americans still have agriculture and the military to fall back on, and they can always annex canada if they need more natural resources.
What I mean is that we'll cope, the world isn't going to end, there are ways to head out of the situation we're in, if slightly painful and slow.
You'll find plenty of 'market commentators' / journalists who will happily announce with conviction that we're in for a future of strife and poverty because we've hit a trough in the market. They're nothing new and in 50 years we'll be better off than we are now. There are only a few exceptional economies that don't follow this rule.
I'd still put my money towards access to education for all. I mean, I'd love to stay at uni doing different degrees and learning about everything until I'm 35 but unless I get 'hardcore' and do Doctoral studies and get sponsored it's not going to happen. (And that probably won't happen because I'm not a genius, just have a thirst for learning ) Brainpower / expertise is imo vastly undervalued by the UK 'establishment'.
In Asia a lot of job contracts come with a transport allowance. If we're going to moan at anyone about transport to and from work, surely it should be them? But tbh, I'd rather have UK wages and pay for my own bus than Chinese wages and get a free bus to work every day.
i agree, university is becoming painfully expensive and soon it will be beyond the reach of many, wouldn't be this way if they had kept it old school instead of allowing every fool with a foundation access course in.
learning continues long past formal education though i've learned more about psychology, economics, finance, politics etc through self-education than i was ever taught, in fact if i had £50 billion i would give everyone an amazon book voucher.
They'd just spend it on Harry Potter books though :razz:
I am always second guessing which course I want to do because I want to do them all!!! Particle physics, mathematics, computer science, aeronautical engineering, economics and economy history, architecture, sociology, theology, every language on the planet... and so on. Heh. One of my friends said I should just go to other lectures, but I'd feel a bit weird. But it could be a plan :thumb:, I'm paying £3k a year (topped up by the government after that) for the pleasure anyway.
To use my provost's words: "It annoys me because there used to be a real ethos of tuition and the role of a supervisor and how they were responsible for their supervisee, now they don't even know your name"
At least on some courses, students are just a paycheck.