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I am a sovereign wealth fund I am a sovereign wealth fund. This is a position that I never expected to be in. I and every other British taxpayer.
I have been told that this was necessary or indescribable consequences entailing the destruction of my life and welfare would have followed. This hypothesis was not tested, due to the supposed costs, and, therefore, I became a sovereign wealth fund.
This sovereign wealth fund is not like other sovereign wealth funds, in that the Chairman is one Gordon Brown and the money that he uses to purchase whatever assets he likes is mine. This does not give me confidence, and I suspect the wealth in the fund will decline in value. This is what Gordon Brown does.
There will be a shareholders meeting in 2010. I think we need to vote for a return of all assets to the shareholders. Voting for these managers certainly has not worked and the alternative consultancy offers more of the same.
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Oh stop whining,Gordon Brown saw you all right by your gold reserves ……Didn’t he??
I’d rather just be sovereign.
I’d rather just have the wealth.
I’m with Laird. Wealth can buy anything, including sovereignty.
No Alisa – at least not unless the person with the gold is also a good commander, or is good at picking good and LOYAL commanders.
Solon the Wise never met Croesus King of Lydia (Solon died a bit too early for that), but there is an old Greek story that they did meet.
Croseus showed Solon the Wise the vast gold reserves of Lydia and was surprised that Solon did not seem to be impressed.
When asked why he was not in awe Solon the Wise is said to have replied.
“Because the first power to come with better iron than you will take the gold”.
In case people do not know:
The commander with the “better iron” (NOT better weapons but better iron in his soul) was Cyrus of the Persians.
A man who took power when the Persions were just poor dependents of the Medes (the modern Kurds I believe). The Medes were his first object of conquest.
I still would rather just have the wealth.