This is him after V-J Day in front of the old courthouse, which is still there and looks pretty much the same, although it's been converted to office space...
Posted on 04/28/2009 1:16:40 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
His name, as they say, is Michael Caine. And he's not a happy bunny. The 76-year-old film star has revealed in colourful terms that he has had it, and will leave Britain if taxes get any higher.
"The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it goes to 51 I will be back in America," he said at the weekend. "We've got 3.5 million layabouts on benefits, and I'm 76, getting up at 6am to go to work to keep them. Let's get everybody back to work so we can save a couple of billion and cut tax, not keep sticking it up."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This is him after V-J Day in front of the old courthouse, which is still there and looks pretty much the same, although it's been converted to office space...
Layabouts, the Brits just have a way with coming up with that highly descriptive word.
This reminds me of the Socialism 101 lesson I’m currently getting at home.
My roommate decided to quit her job. Spent past 3 months just hibernating in her room.
When I told her that her share of the rent was going up $25 (our lease was renewed), she exclaimed, “Well, YOU’RE the one working, so YOU should cover it!”
(She ain’t gonna be my roommate much longer.)
Yeah, Sir Michael c’mon over to the States, we’ll boil you up some food and make you feel at home.
I wish we had some Jimmy Stewart’s in Hollywood today.
“Old Labour is again obsessing over how to level down, or iron out inequalities, rather than raise up.”
Good article...Sad but true..Same hold for the USA these days..
"Right! I want one squad of riflemen inside the redoubt as reserve. Rest of the company form ranks and fire at my command!"
Apart from the failed marriage, I think Bruce Willis is about the closest thing we have. He can do comedy, action and drama with equal alacrity, and although it’s not widely publicized, he tried to enlist after 9/11 and was told he was too old.
“He even pulled off playing a Texan in Second Hand Lions, a really nice movie. The thought of he and Robert Duvall fishing in their pond with shotguns still cracks me up!”
One of my favorite movies right there. Anyone who hasn’t seen it, well.....should!
That Pennsylvania twang of his was so distinctive!
We watched our copy of The Philadelphia Story again not long ago, one of the best comedies ever IMHO.
Truly a great man.
Bookmark.
It's a decidedly Western PA thing. I grew up speaking exactly the same way, and when I went to Gettysburg College, 180 miles away, any number of fellow students commented on my accent and asked what country I was from!
I've lost much of it serving in the Army for 10 years and working with people from all over and living around the world and U.S. for the last 20 years, but sometimes it still surfaces.
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One of the best family movies ever! That fishing scene is one of my favorites as well.
Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
General Jimmy Stewart, to boot. He served his country ably in the military.
IIRC Stewart stayed active in the Air Force Reserve after the war. A fine man.
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