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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Nice pun there.....sick.....but nice!!  |
Well noticed that man. I thought no-one had spotted it
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
But to me it is like a kick in the nuts, when WE are told about cutbacks and the fear of jobs cuts etc, and we have been told what we have to shelve as there isn't any money there, the government come up with this further donation, this is the second donation we have made, doesn't make sense.
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The deficit is structural. Labour spent too much that they couldn't fund, both as part of a wider public sector expansion and to take up some slack from recession. The cutbacks are only to about 2005-6 level, why is this so hard to comprehend?
What is the fundamental malfunction? The size of the public sector goes down as well as up, one cannot simply endlessly expand the public sector until we have 2 people waiting to wipe the arse of each person in the private sector. It's too big, too inefficient, and either it shrinks or our taxes go up and the private sector is crowded out.
If you are socialist minded just say so. The socialist point of view made this mess, the centrist one will get us out.
Either way it's nothing at all to do with the foreign aid budget, which per previous had already been accounted for and is not a huge amount of money next to the deficit that is being tackled.