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On Monday 17 September 2007 19:29, James Kilty wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:03 +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > > Thats PFI for you! Its all a ploy by some socialist genius mole buried > > deep in government to prove that public ownership is not as bad as the > > alternatives! > > No PFI was started by the Tories and continued by the current government. > The Skye bridge is the white elephant of it all - over the years we paid > out many times the cost of building it (against locals' wishes of course) > and it became owned by an American Bank who eventually gave it back. That was partly my point! The socialist genius is the one who showed it doesn't work by applying it everywhere. Image if everyone one was in the stockmarket - it would be called pyramid selling! Or 125% mortgages for everyone - the economy would fall apart! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html