[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Sparkologist

What gets my hackles up, is not which direction the money is being doled out, but the fact that money is being flung around by this government like confetti at a wedding, when we cannot staff our hospitals with enough nurses and the ones that are there are leaving in droves due to being overworked and undervalued.

I totally agree with you regarding the hospitals and I'm sure that people who work in them must be weary of all the endless reems of paperwork most of which seems superfluous. I was at The Royal Blackburn (which to me will always be Queen's Park) yesterday and was seen by several different people, all in connection with the same op, but despite the information being there in my notes anyway every person I saw had to fill in a multipage document and ask me the same questions over and over again. It seemed such a waste of time and effort. Multiply this by the number of patients and it becomes ludicrous. Yet it isn't the fault of each of those individuals it's the fault of the system.

I understand your arguement, Gayle, about the money being made available, so hyndburn might as well apply for a slice of the pie. What I don't agree with is the fact that the money is being spent in the first place. It doesn't cost 11 grand for people to talk to one another. To talk and hold a conversation is free; it doesn't cost anything. But first people have got to want to talk to one another.

The thing about money circulating is that people benefit from it. If we didn't have professional photographers then not as much photographc equipment would need to be made or sold and maybe shops like Garth Dawsons would suffer - silly example perhaps but money does need to circulate for people to stay in business or in employment.