Yoosk today! - Ask Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Ask Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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Submit questions by Apr 02 2009
Interview published on Apr 04 2009

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PatNInterupt is asking Gordon Brown: "Can you assure us that this G20 meeting will not lead the IMF to issue new SDRs that could ultimately cause a 'catastrophic economic holocaust of world-wide runaway inflation' as described by Murray Rothbard..." Show more »"Can you assure us that this G20 meeting will not lead the IMF to issue new SDRs that could ultimately cause a 'catastrophic economic holocaust of world-wide runaway inflation' as described by Murray Rothbard in his highly prescient 1960s' book "What Has The Government Done To Our Money?": "the ultimate goal of most American and world leaders is the old Keynesian vision of a one-world fiat paper standard, a new currency unit issued by a World Reserve Bank (WRB)...such an international paper currency, while indeed free of balance of payments crises since the WRB could issue as much bancors [SDRs] as it wished and supply them to its country of choice, would provide for an open channel for unlimited world-wide inflation, unchecked by either balance-of-payments crises or by declines in exchange rates. The WRB would then be the all-powerful determinant of the world’s money supply and its national distribution. The WRB could and would subject the world to what it believes will be a wisely-controlled inflation. Unfortunately, there would then be nothing standing in the way of the unimaginably catastrophic economic holocaust of world-wide runaway inflation, nothing, that is, except the dubious capacity of the WRB to fine-tune the world economy." I have to say, hearing the chatter going into this meeting, I fear this is EXACTLY what governments want to happen. " Show less »
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2 comments | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 30 2009 6:29:33 PM |

Sadbog74 is asking Gordon Brown: "Should G20 nations agree to tax bailed-out-bank bonuses at a minimum rate of 90%, as Barack Obama has done so in the USA?"
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0 comment | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 30 2009 2:33:36 PM |

RuiSousa is asking Gordon Brown: "Dear Mr. Brown, my question is about: 1) Overconsumption & Credit 2) Supply & Demand 3) Supply for profit 4) Supply for needs. 5) Protecionism. 1) Do you believe overconsumption (generated by overproduction),..." Show more »"Dear Mr. Brown, my question is about: 1) Overconsumption & Credit 2) Supply & Demand 3) Supply for profit 4) Supply for needs. 5) Protecionism.
1) Do you believe overconsumption (generated by overproduction), facilitated by trilions in advertising and excessive credit, is somehow the origin of this crisis? If so, should we go back to business as usual? 2) It looks obvious to me that supply is way over demand. Is it sustaible or the source of never ending bubbles to burst? 3) Supply for profit: If you take a god look at what is consumed today, does it meet people`s needs or corporate profits? Do we really need to switch car every 3 years? 4) The average food calories, per capita, per day, available both in EU and US is far more than a average adult would need, thus obesity... Whilst in Africa & Asia people die by absence of food. Shouldn`t production meet needs? 4) Protecionism: Extended requirements to meet overall quality standards (product, production, environment, labour protection, human rights) should not be asked to imports? Is this protecionism? Or fundamental for trade? How can EU compete with slavery?
Thank you and best of luck, Rui" Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 29 2009 9:28:40 AM |

getufit is asking Gordon Brown: " To the London Summit 2009:      03/28/09   President Obama corrupted, he bought election, and now he is paying back to the donors: bailout banks, car makers and etc on taxpayers expenses. This..." Show more »" To the London Summit 2009:      03/28/09

  President Obama corrupted, he bought election, and now he is paying back to the donors: bailout banks, car makers and etc on taxpayers expenses.

This intentional protection businesses creates more lay off: many businesses are closing now, or give a mass lay off, knowing that they will get money from federal government and then they will start hiring again. It is a mass conspiracy of banks and etc.

  There is no need too much brain to ran country by begging for money from US Congress, which is bankrupt.

   President Obama also violates, ignores, does not support and criminal contempt the Constitution of the USA: covers up the crime of the Chair of the EEOC Naomi Earp.  On base of Amendment XIV, Section 3 - President Obama can't hold any office and must resign. Or fired, impeached by the People.

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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Mar 29 2009 4:03:40 AM |

prufrock is asking Gordon Brown: "As Chief, should the Cabinet consider taking a cut in salary to show Leadership, humility and solidarity with the British people, who are feeling the brunt of this global catastrophe?"
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0 comment | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 27 2009 3:42:59 AM |

paterleo is asking Gordon Brown: "Dear Gordon. Suppose the time has come to use the heritage of Stafford beer for real solving the Global World Problems . Look at my presentation to the PARADISO-2009 Conference - http://ototsky.mgn...." Show more »"Dear Gordon.
Suppose the time has come to use the heritage of Stafford beer for real solving the Global World Problems . Look at my presentation to the PARADISO-2009 Conference -
http://ototsky.mgn.ru/presentationd/paradiso2009m.htm
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0 comment | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 25 2009 1:24:01 PM |

Sadbog74 is asking Gordon Brown: "Should G20 nations agree to increase taxes on the rich in each of their nations after the downturn ends, and the uprturn begins, in order to avoid forcing each other to cut essential public services from..." Show more »"Should G20 nations agree to increase taxes on the rich in each of their nations after the downturn ends, and the uprturn begins, in order to avoid forcing each other to cut essential public services from tax competition, to counterbalance the debt of buying stakes in the bank? A global top rate of tax pledge?" Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 21 2009 7:54:20 PM |

Electrician is asking Gordon Brown: "Hi, This is quite a simple question in the grand scheme of things. I work in the building trade as a electrician and have noticed the decline in work what i would like to know is 'you' have pumped billions..." Show more »"Hi, This is quite a simple question in the grand scheme of things. I work in the building trade as a electrician and have noticed the decline in work what i would like to know is 'you' have pumped billions into the banks (so they can keep it for themselves) and millions into the car industry (which seems to like to make fields full of cars that they are not selling which as a layman to me seems stupid, you don't keep on making something if know one is buying. and if you do, your sell them cheap to regain capital). So heres my question, why aren't the government putting money into localized building projects and infrastructure regeneration, i.e council housing (not housing association) as we're gonna need it with waiting lists up to 2-million (mainly due to the fact only 150ish were built in the last year, not to mention the amount of houses that have been bought via the right to buy schemes thus creating a shrinking number of council houses). Thank you for you time. Ian" Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Jobs | Email to friends | Mar 19 2009 8:12:48 PM |

ordinaryboy is asking Gordon Brown: "Will the Prime Minister, as an aid to the effective and efficient delivery of health and social care, ask the EC to support a review of the application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to horizontal cooperation..." Show more »"
Will the Prime Minister, as an aid to the effective and efficient delivery of health and social care, ask the EC to support a review of the application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to horizontal cooperation within the health and social care industries and assess the case for a block exemption?
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0 comment | Topic: Business | Email to friends | Mar 16 2009 10:00:06 PM |

Sadbog74 is asking Gordon Brown: "The G20 Must reform the failed multilateral institutions like the IMF and World Bank. These institutions were part of the problem and overly-liberalized economies and created massive interest loans..." Show more »"The G20 Must reform the failed multilateral institutions like the IMF and World Bank. These institutions were part of the problem and overly-liberalized economies and created massive interest loans that kept developing nations in poverty. These instituions are ultimatley run by America and are not accountable to the member states. There is real anger out there at these institutions!!!! When people tried to create a UN economic institution, the IMF and World Bank shot the idea down because they could see it would take power away from masters of these institutions and create democratic 1 vote per country system. The IMF and World Bank are part of the problem, and must be Radically DEMOCRATIZED and REFORMED or else destroyed altogether and replaced with a U.N. economic institution. Business as usual will not do." Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: World Affairs | Email to friends | Mar 16 2009 1:39:47 PM |

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