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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I too find it incredible the way money is spent in this country when there are people in desperate need. If someone ran their household accounts the same way they'd be regarded as off their trolly. Imagine getting behind on your mortgage, having your gas and electricity cut off but going on a world cruise because there's plenty of money in the holiday pot but none left in the mortgage and utilities one so hey what the heck have the holiday because if you don't use the money for that you can't use it for anything else. It's madness.
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Yes Willow it does look a lot like madness to most people, that is the problem, they don't understand how the "pots of money" work so are too quick to be against the money spending. That is the way it is though at the moment and we are, for now at least stuck with it. I think it would be more like madness if we all sat on our backsides and did nothing with this available money while people in neighbouring Borough's used it, don't you.
As an example: Rhyddings park has a nice new (2 year old) play area, there is nothing wrong with it and the kids enjoy using it. If there was a pot of money that was only for play areas and we could get a grant to double its size to allow more children to play, should we:
a) Say thank you very much for the money and double the play area size
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b) Say no thanks the play area is ok and we don't want to spend any money on the play area when the paths need repairing - even though you can't give us the money to repair them and can only give it us for the play area.
I see the Panopticon has cropped up again. I wonder if anyone actually bothered to find out what people were really against. Was it the actual design, location or the fact that they thought the £50,000 (I think it was that much) could be better spent on other things?
Whoops that got a bit woffley - I best go and get some decorating done before my brain over heats.