Britain cutting 500k government jobs, cutting welfare by $11bil, and more
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I love UK! Chavs, cameras everywhere, unemployed government workers begging on the streets, GUN BAN, obesity rate, cockney accent, bad teeth and people coming to your homes charging money for "TV license fee"
And that fat thing from "Britain got Talent".
And that fat thing from "Britain got Talent".
This is obviously good. But it's a short-term move. From what I've read, there has been no serious discussion about changing the system that made this problem possible in the UK (or the U.S.). It will happen again.
Think about the schmuck who has $80,000 in credit debt, and his cards are maxed. The banks have cut him off. His savings are gone. He even spent his 401K. He's desperate. He thinks to himself "Uh oh, I need to cut back."
So he does. Until he gets a new credit card with a $20,000 limit. Then he goes right back to his old ways.
The UK (U.S.) needs to break the back of the system to prevent the welfare state from growing down the line. Otherwise, once the economy is moving and governments are flush with cash (taxes), the pols will go right back to hiring and buying votes.
After all, it's not like they're spending their money. So, why would they care?
Think about the schmuck who has $80,000 in credit debt, and his cards are maxed. The banks have cut him off. His savings are gone. He even spent his 401K. He's desperate. He thinks to himself "Uh oh, I need to cut back."
So he does. Until he gets a new credit card with a $20,000 limit. Then he goes right back to his old ways.
The UK (U.S.) needs to break the back of the system to prevent the welfare state from growing down the line. Otherwise, once the economy is moving and governments are flush with cash (taxes), the pols will go right back to hiring and buying votes.
After all, it's not like they're spending their money. So, why would they care?
I would be surprised. It seems like the course we are on is more of total collapse. Government rarely if ever gets smaller slowly, and I would be surprised to see it sustain in the absence of a complete overhaul of the political system. I think from a political standpoint a total collapse of the state is preferable to any incremental "progress." Otherwise you just see gains erased by the next political movement.
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Lol'ing at your "sources"
Conceptualized out of sheer boredom and an insatiable lust for attention, FITSNews is the brainchild of South Carolina political consultant and former gubernatorial spokesman Will Folks (a.k.a. “Sic Willie“) and a group of blazing-hot babes that may or may not exist entirely in his imagination.
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Lol'ing at your "sources"
And they are raising foreign aid by almost 50% at a time when thousands of british people can not get the cancer drugs they need to survive because they are too expensive.
Who the fuck voted for that?
Who the fuck voted for that?
I don't get the foreign aid thing at all.
Anyway chaps, the 500,000 job losses will only shrink the number of public service workers back to the level at 1997, which is when the Labour party came to power. So it's basically a cull of pointless jobs created by the previous socialists to ensure votes in the election. It almost worked too ...
The national health service is ring fenced.
Capitalism go go go go go go go go go go go
No government can fund their coach potatoes anymore. Every country will have to be lean and mean and embrace meritocracy like monogamy.
Provide jobs for the blue collar workers? Then factories move to China. Taxing chinese cars? WTO. Taxing people to subsidize workers, hello, there goes capital bye bye.
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Soon, everyone will proclaim, "Free market is great. There is no other system but free market". And the world will be at peace. Unlike all the other ideologies, I am not seeing how keynesian free market, will fight austrian free market, and milton's free market. Unlike protestant vs catholic, or sunni vs syiah.
No government can fund their coach potatoes anymore. Every country will have to be lean and mean and embrace meritocracy like monogamy.
Provide jobs for the blue collar workers? Then factories move to China. Taxing chinese cars? WTO. Taxing people to subsidize workers, hello, there goes capital bye bye.
Welcome to the club Cuba http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/09/13/cuba-gets-a-clue/
Soon, everyone will proclaim, "Free market is great. There is no other system but free market". And the world will be at peace. Unlike all the other ideologies, I am not seeing how keynesian free market, will fight austrian free market, and milton's free market. Unlike protestant vs catholic, or sunni vs syiah.
It's still not enough, and their spoiled children are already rioting in the streets.
None of these people have the political will to do what's necessary, and they'll all go bankrupt.
None of these people have the political will to do what's necessary, and they'll all go bankrupt.
I'm from Holland, same here... The time I'm about to retire the age is 67 or even higer by then..... 70?