That's about as far as you can count and your simple arithmetic goes i gather!?!?
Dudes and Dudettes, mine was a little excercise that took an hour. People seem to think SARS is wonderful. The Government, (and especially this one) make very few initiatives that change our lives for the better through their own innitiatives. The people build the systems and write the programs and then they educate their target market and sell their technology to them. Show me the tender for the Import Verification System software? Show me a tender for any of SARS systems software or that of SARB?
http://www.savino.co.za/news
Ghhhrrrhhhrr....Swish...Thwak!
Now wipe that green gilly off your glasses.
The people express their hardships through mass demonstrations, or by complaining to their councilors. The latter being the civilised way of doing things, the former being the goaded way of doing things. Here people are going off about 19 basic food stuffs and condemning me for alledgedly making a few wrong suppositions in that regard, while admitting to not even have read the excersize. i only started out with a few items merely to find the average food expenditure of a household on my own volition and using only one given, i.e. the rounded off size of the population as given by StatsSA. Of course i took a few digs in the process. My next itteration was to try and prove that R54 a day was not really enough to feed a family of 4. However, there was a problem with that to start, in that the BBC implies that there are 9 million homes and 2 million shacks and if i fit an average of only 4 into each of those, then i'm sitting with 7 million people without any shelter, but 7 million people is nothing by comparison to the ratio that the Georgia Guidstones abdicate.
After that i tried to find a livable mean between a pre conceived health diet introduced by Ms Health Nut and one bordering on luxury with bottles of tomato sauce and cooking with organic Extra Virgin Olive oil. Dangit man, (or woman) all you're trying to contest me with here, is with what comprises just 12.8 percent of household expenditure for the entire nation according to StatsSA and then you've even got your so called condemning "facts" half wrong. Not that two half wrongs make a right, but it's no wonder murderers and rapists walk free so that for every one of the most heinous crimes known to modern man, only 10% get convicted, but they too walk free after serving just 1/6th of their sentence.
WHITE BREAD ATTRACTS VAT, like butter to a fly. Brown bread is one of the few things that still takes the old norm of doubling in price only every 10 years. Maize Meal does the double in price take trick in less than 3½ years. Even with GMO.
In my time i've worked on many and have been around many a construction site and must have seen hundreds of workers go off at lunch time, (thousands of times) and come back with a loaf, or a half a loaf of WHITE BREAD. The guys that came back with brown bread i can count on my fingers. Don't know why? Maybe it's the old song...
Eye-diddle-ee-eye-dye
Eat brown bread
I saw a sausage fall down dead
Up come a savaloy and hit him on the head
Eye-diddle-ee-eye-dye
Eat brown bread
.... most won't say thank you for a can of pilchards either,.but the racks in the shops are always full of them. Most would rather have a pack of chicken livers, or offal and ask you to please bring some more paraffin for the primus on Monday. Myself, i love pickled fish with a fresh crust of white bread and thick butter, but one can hardly find it anymore and when i do and i look at the price of a tin of pickled fish, i almost flip my lid and take a can of sardines and go with toast on yesterdays bread, instead.
Whatever, your feeble arguments are, the other 87.2% of household expenditure was hardly brought into contension, (well not directly anyway). i brought in some of it in with the import figure and a bit more with the stuff that should build a decent roof over ones head, (if it's used as per specification)....
http://www.google.co.za/#hl=en&tbo=...1e39aa363f7cfe&bpcl=39314241&biw=1024&bih=616
.....BUT, (and that;s a big butt) i didn't mention a hell of a lot of what goes into the rest of household expenditure, and particulary goods that are locally produced. So, if that's all your argument and standoff is worth my blind puppies, it's next to nothing in the broader scheme of things and for which people don't believe i have the capacity to estimate the total VAT base. Nope, you]re right and i'll admit it, i don't have it an hour, but give me a decent incentive like 3.4bil and and the authority to collect the data and i'll find and calculate what every lost sheep's a$$ in the Country is worth to the Illuminati and have it in 6 months complete with pastel shaded graphs and with a helluva of a ot less staff and additional cost to the Country of financing a whole department at R1.1bil per annum on the gravy train, with subsidised housing bonds (4%) and medical aid (50%)...and pesion funds (50%) and that's just Stats SA. Tell you what, i'll even give you a 50% reduction on the 3.4bil, (including VAT) complete with systems and donate them to the University of your choice afterwards.
Manual: I need 3.4 billion!
Zuma: Why, we've done this twice already?
Manual: Well you know Imbeki's open border policy and remember how the previous dispensation taught us that there's a farm in Paraguay, a home in Geneva and a flat in Monte Carlo and just as you do, i also need some extensions at home and a new plough, so i need to punch in some overtime. The contruction industry is moaning because they still have to work on estimations based on 2005's figures which is like almost 7 fat years ago now and i think the 7 lean ones start next year and you also know how much we've all been shooting the Blue Label and 3 over par and bef#@$ing everyone in the eye while cheating on the scorecard, in the meantime...
Zuma: Okay, okay, don't go there, just organize me a seductress and a shower and it's yours! Now where's my iPod
i zicka zimba zimba zimba....
