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Originally Posted by Tuftus
I must admit, I have to kind of agree where Arthur is coming from on this.
Having recently had my income / expenditure gone through with a fine tooth comb and had to make cuts myself, you have to ask, when the country is in the dire straights that we kept being told it is... Why are we not cutting stuff like this to look after local jobs / projects?
Should charity not begin at home, should we not get our own house in order before attending to others? As harsh as that sounds, I do feel we should be taking this stance rather than trying to be the nice guy all the time.
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Per previous this isn't some decimation of the public sector, reducing it to running the entire state on a shoe string over a period of a couple of months, it's reducing spending to the percentage of the country's productivity it was in the middle of the last decade over a period of
five years.
Again - this is small change - the scale of cuts required to correct the government's overspend is enormous. This budget is ring fenced and already accounted for. There is no need for us to stop sharing some small part of our prosperity with the rest of the world so that we can continue to mortgage our children to gorge ourselves on an unsustainable state.