{"id":367,"date":"2009-04-14T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T23:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/from-the-uk-but-could-be-here\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T23:29:35","slug":"from-the-uk-but-could-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/from-the-uk-but-could-be-here\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE UK BUT COULD BE HERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bit of humor from my friend Jenny Hall in the UK:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We are in DEEP trouble… <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

The population of the UK  is <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

approximately 60 million. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

32 million are retired. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

That leaves 28 million to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

There are 17 million in school or at Universities. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Which leaves 11 million to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Of this there are 8 million employed by the  UK government. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Leaving 3 million to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

1.2 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with killing Osama Bin-Laden
and fighting in Afghanistan , etc  <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Which leaves 1.8 million to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Take from that total the 0.8 million people who work for Local County
Councils. And that leaves 1 million to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

At any given time there are 488,000 people in hospitals or claiming
Invalidity Benefit. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Leaving 512,000 to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Now, there are 511,998 people in prisons. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

That leaves just two people to do the work. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

You and me. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

And there you are, <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Sitting on your bum, <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

At your computer, reading jokes. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that we are in such a mess and that I am stressed out
through trying to cope on my own? <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

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A bit of humor from my friend Jenny Hall in the UK: We are in DEEP trouble… The population of the UK  is approximately 60 million. 32 million are retired. That leaves 28 million to do the work. There are 17 million in school or at Universities. Which leaves 11 million to do the work. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}