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Originally Posted by vanman
no the point is cut the road works and spend it on police/schools and health care
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These aren't 'road works' they are investments in infrastructure that will help the country to stay competitive and produce the income that will both pay off our debts and provide the money to invest in better services.
It's imperative that these investments are made, without them we're deeply in the excrement. It's not a nice decision but it had to be made.
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Originally Posted by vanman
yes i understand the theory.
but to build roads and cut back the police/health care/new schools ect
does not seem right to me.
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It may not seem right to you but there are few options. It's not ideal but at the end of the day absolutely no-one else has given a viable solution. Infrastructure investments aren't
an option they are the only option.
What else would you suggest is done?
Labour are stubbornly refusing to offer any plans of their own of any detail, constantly backtracking on previous comments as is politically expedient.
The Green party's plan to cut nothing, increase environmental spending and to increase taxes to make it up which will never work as we'll have no-one here to pay the taxes - firms would move elsewhere and anyone mobile will be off like a whippet.
The unions want zero redundancies or cuts and for the economy to 'grow' its' way out of deficit by which time the country will have been downgraded by credit reference agencies, quite rightly, and accumulated more debt pushing interest payments through the roof.
Cut deeply now or cut incredibly deeply later. Things we cannot cut are the infrastructure projects that will assist with supplying the growth that we need to help us as a nation out of this hole.
Public spending is being dropped as a percentage of the economy back to 2006-2007 levels. This is not some wild west time when we as a country were a destitute wasteland. The police will be fine so long as they stop obsessing over statistics and PR and do as the home secretary instructed them and police. Health is protected. The schools budget is protected, some elements of the education budget as a whole are being reduced however the majority of school construction continues.
For all the nasty Tories crap this lot are the most liberal Conservatives we've ever had by a mile. Not speaking to you personally but the sooner some get their heads out of their backsides and stop pretending they live in a socialist paradise where you pay your (not that high) taxes and the state does everything for you rather than what the UK actually is - a modern, capitalist democracy heavily reliant on an extremely mobile work force, international corporations and financial institutions for our tax income - the better. Squeeze them too hard for taxes to pay for public services you lose 100% of what you would be getting, that's how it is.