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Originally Posted by Chris
Quite. And by 'real jobs' we can immediately discount the public sector, which has to be paid for out of taxation and therefore isn't really contributing meaningful tax at all.
You know, I have the strangest feeling that a good number of today's marchers were public sector workers.
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as do i ,it seems quite obvious now(if it wasn't before) that the last government used recruitment into the civil service as a way of keeping unemployment numbers down by creating non-jobs in Whitehall and the the town halls now the cuts have to be made the true numbers of created non jobs will become apparent .Now we will be in a position where the tax payer having funded wages for these jobs will now have to fund redundancy payments and benefit payments for the people losing their jobs .
Top priority must be to get new companies up and running ,encourage companies to move here and rebuild a manufacturing base in this country .What we don't want ,after giving the subject much thought and taking the opinions of more knowledgeable posters than i into consideration ,is the unions trying force the government into keeping the non-jobs and being an unnecessary burden on the tax bill .Yes it is a shame for those losing their jobs ,and i am suffering as well ,but if this action (the cuts in progress at the moment) is halted then the downward spiral of less tax revenue and more welfare will get to a stage where it won't be possible to undo it without going the way of Ireland and Portugal
that is the honest opinion of a manual self employed worker who is suffering from the cuts but thinks the nasty tasting medicine will be better for him in the long run