That way we no longer fund and maintain the system we rightly despise. That way we live as free as we can. That way we withdraw our sanction; the sanction of the victim.

Perhaps it’s time to shrug.

It’s never been possible to spend your way out of a debt crisis. It is possible to spend your way out of recession if other conditions are right and you spend the money on the right things (i.e. something that improves your national productivity and/or infrastructure long term) but not by simply employing more and more people doing unproductive work. That’s how you create a debt crisis in the first place.

Cuts are necessary in the short to medium term, but in the longer term what is needed for real sustainable growth is jobs – and lots and lots of them – in a productive sector.

Turkey 1 (40 something, one of these people who go around enforcing the smoking ban)
Turkey 2 (almost 60, half asleep, can’t wait to be pensioned off)

Turkey 1: The thing is, if they cut £26 million, they’ll just spend £27 million doing it, I mean you know what they’re like, they’ll just spend more than they save
Turkey 2: (disinterested, just wishing turkey 1 would go away) Yeah, I know what you mean.
Turkey 1: Well you saw that last reorganisation, I mean how much do you reckon that cost them, and to do what? There’s no point in them even bothering trying to cut £26 million they’ll probably just spend more money than that on these stupid consultations and away days again and it’ll save nothing.
Turkey 2: Well we’ll just have to see I guess
Me: Who’s cutting £26 million then
Turkey 1: The council are, blah blah blah
Me: Nah, I reckon it’ll be more like 20% over 3 years max
Turkey 1: Well, if they go that far, that’ll probably mean I won’t get my regrading to senior officer! Great! Fantastic! (walks off in a huff)

Their Chief Exec has been lying to them for the last couple of years telling them the cuts won’t go further than 3% over 3 years! Even the Thatcherist guy I work with reckons that there’ll only be about £15 billion taken off the whole UK’s 2011 budget. I’d put my money on £35 billion at least.

By the time they’ve finished striking they’ll probably have been better off just taking a 20% pay cut!

Awww Didums. Happier now?

Anyway, it isn’t really the Conservatives fleecing you; you are in fact still paying the bill for Labour, who think you should pay for the privilege of having a job, Blue.

I know , I know; you have to get up in the morning and it’s not fair. Don’t get started again. There are always those worse off …well, better off – you know what I mean.

Great post, You ought to get along to the Libertarian Party web site, tailor made for you.

I know, and that is what seems so unfair to me. I already pay more than my fair share and also “do the right thing” in terms of saving, not going out there and robbing people, etc. and yet it is me AGAIN who will pay for Brown’s reckless policies. Some of the recipients of his electoral bribery should have to pay it back.