UK Government Petition to lower fuel prices

[The Dong]

paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
> 1) Drive to work, pay through the nose for the privilage
> 2) don't work and take from the state.
> 
> so, if I do the first, I'm scum because I'm polluting the planet. If I do
> the second I'm scum because I'm sponging off the state.

3) become an international criminal mastermind
4) Get a job, or create a job, which is close by with (disclosed) 
earnings slightly below the poverty line AND sponge off the state for 
free healthcare etc. so you can afford to live.

I read people moaning all the time about how hard their life is and how 
much they pay in TAX to support spongers. Why not do something about it 
and protect your earnings from all this TAX by driving less, doing less 
of the heavily taxed things like smoking and drinking, being damn clever 
and avoiding wads of TAX on your income by totally untraceable naughty 
or legal methods or do as millions of others do and accept that it is 
very hard to earn above the poverty line without incurring so much extra 
tax and costs that all the superficial niceties may seem like a waste of 
time compared with part-time Peter across the street who is nearly 
always sunning himself in the local pub beer garden, day in, day out and 
never seems to be working. He's dressed abysmally, doesn't have a 
Blackberry, isn't balding yet at 48 and he's happy enough most of the 
time, except when that suited up pink balding Larry Arsewad who's only 
29 and works for some UK based importer of Sweatshop goods comes to the 
pub flashing his latest £4,000 Rolex and gadgets and starts nagging his 
chops about Peter being a lazy bastard who will never come to anything 
in life working so few hours a week.
Yeah, at least Peters got nice hair and a clear conscience ;)

blah. I've been resigned to not having wads of cash for decades. Don't 
mind one bit really.
:)