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Originally Posted by Derek S
So stop making loads of people unemployed by making loads of people unemployed  |
You forget that Arthur doesn't count anyone not in the 'working classes' as being a part of the work force.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
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The savings will need to be of the order of, I'll say this for you in words and numbers, Fifty Billion Pounds, £50,000,000,000.
The cost of Parliament is Five Hundred Million Pounds, £500,000,000.
So we totally abolish Parliament there's 1% of the reductions sorted, let's go after the other 99%. Oh wait there's no-one to do that we just abolished them.
MP's salaries are fine, I make more than an MP on base. There is absolutely no need for drastic cuts to their salaries.
Some services will be cut. This is fine. It's not the job of the government to look after most of us, we're grown ups or have grown ups to look after us and just need basic municipal services. If people stopped feeling entitled to having the government look after them in every way there would be more money for those who do actually need society to look after them and lower taxes for those who look after themselves.
Right now the government is spending over 50% of our entire national income, in some cities the government employs around half of the work force. This is no good for longer term prosperity and even worse for the pay packets of those in the private sector who pay for it.
Cuts are coming, there are three choices.
1) Accept them as being necessary.
2) Give valid reasons why they aren't necessary.
3) Complain that even though they are necessary they shouldn't happen - this one loosely translates to having a reliance on some aspect of those services, be it working in delivering the services or relying on them in some way.
No it won't be pleasant, no it's not something one would wish for, yes it will cause some unemployment, but yes it is absolutely required as without it this country will be in the kind of excrement that makes the 1970s look like easy street.