Re: Budget 2009
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Originally Posted by Mancie
(Post 706943)
You make it all sound very simple Andrew..how about telling us were you would start making your cuts in public spending to pay for your tax breaks and less Government borrowing..NHS? sickness benifits? pensions?..or by cutting jobs in public sector causing even worse unemployment?
Your solution is the same old Tory way that has been tried and tested in the past..in fact it has been the same Tory policy since the war..and has never worked..it just causes more misery!...have you people got any new ideas?
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True indeed ... esp. the last bit .... but Andrew is right in a sense; what is needed is consumer cofidence ... but the threat of govt. economy which rides on the backs of the poorer elements in society is not the answer. Nor is the simplistic "live within it's means" bs ... we are talking complex economies here, economies that have developed into entities we have never had before (like the EU), and to compare these economies to individual budgeting (now, if we cut back on bacon, we can buy more beer) is pure, unadulterated horse manure. What all countries need are new ways of addressing economic problems; and one thing is obvious: we can't leave the running of business to the businessmen ... they screwed up massively and dumped us into the economic craphouse, proving that they can be trusted only to line their pockets at the expense of the ordinary citizen, and their national economies. |
