[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Wasn't aware it was the government's job to look after us.

I suppose technically it's the government's job to manage the state which is supposedly there to look after those who need it.

While you're discussing our money where do you think the money to look after you and your family will come from? No party can look after you and your family because no party has their own money, it's our money, there's a limited supply of it and it has to be prioritised.

This is something a lot of people forget. While the Government routinely deals in amounts of money far higher than the average person will ever encounter in their lifetime, they still do have a finite supply of money.

You are right, the Government's primary income is from us. As such, when they waste money, it's our money.

The alternative is taxes going up by a quarter. Given your complaints about taxation I've no idea where the money to look after you and your family and not cut services is coming from.

This is the classic rock/hard place situation for me. If the cuts go too deep, I could very well lose my job. Which I cannot afford to do. If they raise taxes too much, I cannot afford that either.

Incidentally I couldn't care less which party you vote for, I just don't get your view of the world or of what you're entitled to.

Clearly Arthur favours Gorden Brown's method of economic management which seemed to involve getting the country heavily in debt, so he could attempt to finance a "boom" in the economy, then selling off the country's gold reserves for a fraction of what they were worth. The Governmental equivalent of maxing out your credit cards, taking out loans (from one of these easy credit companies that advertise on TV in the middle of the night and charge almost triple digit interest rates), then taking the wife's jewellery down to CashConverters just so you can afford to take the family on Holiday..