Well said Jagman.... Everyone keeps forgetting that all the money spent in the public sector on employment is just re circulated... it produces nothing saleable for the economy, and everything that doesn't get recirculated mostly gets spent on food or stuff we import or on credit, net effect a fair % of it goes out the country. Thats not a go at public sector workers, I have a lot of respect for them mostly. Public sector growth is a side effect of H&S, an aging population and government/EU legislation.
The country needs to make things that people want to buy or that we can mostly sell abroad (real jobs) to create actual revenue... we can't run our economy swapping hair cuts for shoe shines.
But are you all going to rush out and buy an expensive British built DVD player because its British built when you can buy a Sony assembled in China or Korea for peanuts.... the answer is No of course not.
What you are now seeing in the UK and Europe is the price of de-industrialisation and the allowing of free trade to run rife. Anything that can be made cheaper in the East will be!
In Spain 43% of people between the ages of 16 and 24 are unemployed!
We are already seeing suggestions that living relatives will be subject to huge charges for elderly care because the state can't afford the elderly anymore so will rob the generation ahead to keep things going, we are already being told by both parties there will be big tax hikes... inevitably the government is going to have to draw more and more on yours and my personal savings and wealth. Why do you think tax evasion and the uk (cash) black economy is now so big? Anyone with any idea of whats going on in the UK is making sure there money is safely out of reach of the exchequer who now does more and more to try and find it... do you really think that the reporting of any cash transaction over £x,000s of pounds was really to do with terrorism? its just another example of legislation allowing the government to pry into your finances.
Whilst you have party politics and no real representation of real peoples views nothing will happen, they will keep telling you everything is OK until there is nothing left then and only then will people realise they have been screwed over, thats when the riots start!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!