Robots and employment

[j.sabourn]

Big business that is the ones making all the profit will have to be taxed right up to the hilt to pay for the welfare systems, this is one of the basics of communism where the state is responsible for all monies. No more high flying parties. Get your money in the box to pay for all those not working and earning a wage, which will also be state controlled. Those hazy Lazy days of summer are over for most of us in the not too distant future if politicians keep going the way they have in the past 50 years or so. Or is probably easier to say all industry will be nationalized. Doesn't matter if it works or not it will be the only answer to alleviate the welfare system. Other alternatives of my personal view have already stated. JWS

[Keith Tindell]

I feel the war drums are starting to be banged against us pensioners, we are the problem with the NHS it seems, we have the triple lock on our pensions, and then the blatant statement from Lord Willetts ( 300£ a day man ) that pensioners are better off than the adver age working man,AFTER HOUSING COSTS ARE TAKEN OUT!!!, of course we are better off, we have worked all our lives to finish our mortgage, and the man or women in work is still buying theirs. I have written to my MP expressing my disgust at the blatant anti pensioner lies. I did tell him that in case he has forgotten we represent a large voting community, the bast...., kt

[j.sabourn]

Keith people like him were the cause of the Russian revolution in 1928. Given time and the way the world is going one might yet see history repeating itself. People decry Russia still for this I assume, however you don't see the hordes of illegal migrants trying to get out. Nobody ever talks about this and all is overshadowed by past instances in recent history. You only see the usual discordant ones as you see in our society. I think if it is Trumps aim to bring Russia in from the cold that would be a great fete of statesmanship. JS

[Keith at Tregenna]

RE: I remember that the ship was nicknamed the "Mighty Minnie."

possibly ?

U.S.S. MINDORO
(CVE-120)

MIGHTY MINNIE

First launched in June 1945, the USS Mindoro was a nearly 11,400-ton Commencement Bay-class escort carrier that could carry up to 33 aircraft at any given time. Like many other carriers produced during this decade, the USS Mindoro CVE-120 was constructed in Tacoma, Washington by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc.

After a relatively quick construction, the USS Mindoro was initially commissioned in December 1945 and placed in the command of Captain Edwin R. Peck. In her first series of operations, the USS Mindoro was assigned to Carrier Division 14, based in Norfolk, Virginia. She conducted various training operations up and down the East Coast.

By 1947, the USS Mindoro had joined the 8th Fleet in the West Indies and was playing an important role in training naval pilots and performing cutting-edge, top-secret hunter-killer exercises. These runs typically occurred anywhere between the Davis Strait to the Carribean to the British Isles. The extent of her training capabilities, as well as her crews' knowledge and professionalism, earned her the right to participate in two Mediterranean missions (in 1950 and 1954) with the 6th Fleet.

Decommission & Recognition

The following year, the USS Mindoro was decommissioned in Boston and ordered to join the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Despite undergoing a series of repairs and being reclassified as a Hunter-Killer craft (AKV-20), in December 1959, the USS Mindoro was removed from the official Naval Register. By June 1960, she had been sent to Hong Kong for scrapping.

Despite never serving in wartime nor earning any battle stars, the USS Mindoro's superior training abilities earned her recognition by the Naval History & Heritage Command Center, which is based in Washington, D.C.

The USS Mindoro was initially named for the 7th largest island, southwest of Luzon, in the Philippines.

[Rodney Mills]

Thanks Dez, re # 4

The "USS Mighty Mo" "USS Missouri" was sunk by the Japs during the Pearl Harbor attack. I'm 99% sure it was the "Mighty Minnie," as I used to collect soft-back book-matches, and I know I had scrounged a pack for my collection. But that memory is about sixty-five years old and I still could be wrong in the name.

Thanks again.

[Keith at Tregenna]

U.S.S. MINDORO
(CVE-120)

MIGHTY MINNIE

Ports of Call (1946-55)

San Diego, California
Bermuda
Quebec, Canada
Brindisi, Italy
Naples, Italy
Augusta, Sicily
Palermo, Sicily
Villefranche, France
Edinburgh, Scotland
Southend-on-Sea, England
Mayport, Florida
New York, NY
Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo), Cuba
Kingston, Jamaica
Port au Prince, Haiti
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Gibraltar
Barcelona, Spain
Genoa, Italy
Naples, Italy

Mindoro Ports of Call

[happy daze john in oz]

When the UK pension first came in it was set at 65 but it was said that few would be able to claim it as the age for most dying then was in the mid 60's.

In around 1968 the pension department set pensions at an estimated age of 70 at death. Of course since then with the advances in medical technology people ate living well past that.

[Captain Kong]

There was a fella on TV News this morning, he was the Chairman of the Care of old folks. Not sure of the organisation.
He says "the Big problem of providing care for the elderly today is, Pensioners at living far too long"
I was fuming at this. I hear it every day on TV.

I think one day there will be compulsory Euthanasia for all pensioners over 70, to keep the costs down.
Brian

[Keith at Tregenna]

THOUGHTS NOW OF: Soylent Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film combines the police procedural and science fiction genres, depicting the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".

The film, which is based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4

[Ivan Cloherty]

There was a fella on TV News this morning, he was the Chairman of the Care of old folks. Not sure of the organisation.
He says "the Big problem of providing care for the elderly today is, Pensioners at living far too long"
I was fuming at this. I hear it every day on TV.

I think one day there will be compulsory Euthanasia for all pensioners over 70, to keep the costs down.
Brian

Guess we're lucky Brian, we've well survived 70, lets hope they don't find us, remember a film quite a few decades ago with Micheal York where-in anyone over 35 was given a fatal injection, like most science fiction, it will come to pass