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When Will Austerity End?
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I'm fed up of being lied to by some elitist scum.
I'm fed up of being lied to by some elitist scum.
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//It will do, some are so quick off the mark to get something for nothing.
It is just the same with schools providing free breakfasts.//
Not nice. The people we work with who qualify for food bank vouchers are not looking to get 'something for nothing'. They are genuinely expereancing very hard times and usually are absolutely mortified at the thought of having to accept them.
It is just the same with schools providing free breakfasts.//
Not nice. The people we work with who qualify for food bank vouchers are not looking to get 'something for nothing'. They are genuinely expereancing very hard times and usually are absolutely mortified at the thought of having to accept them.
For decades we have been "paying" ourselves far more than we are worth.
Also we have been far too generous with benefits and for allowing people to come to live here who contribute nothing to this country but use the NHS, schools and other services etc.
We are now massively in debt (both as a country and with personal debt).
My son (who lives with my wife and I) is 28 has special needs but manages to hold down a full time job (not highly paid).
However he gets very generous benefits for being disabled and also gets a personal allowance to pay for an assistant to take him to Alton Towers and rock festivals and similar activities as he cant go on his own.
Because his outgoings are very low (as he lives with us) he has managed to save about £15,000 (the benefits are NOT means tested).
I think his benefits are FAR too generous, though I am not going to complain.
My wife also works with children and teenagers who have severe special needs and for some of these youngsters the yearly budget is £25,000 to £30,000 to look after them (to provide medical support, education, personal assistants etc).
I am not saying they should not have this support but the financial cost if you roll it out across the thousands of young people who need this type of support it runs in to the multi millions.
Since the second world war we have become more and more "easy going" about giving money away - to benefit scroungers, to foreign countries, to NHS fraud, to the EU (to which we have paid billions) but now that easy going nature is coming back to bite us.
We only have ourselves to blame.
Also we have been far too generous with benefits and for allowing people to come to live here who contribute nothing to this country but use the NHS, schools and other services etc.
We are now massively in debt (both as a country and with personal debt).
My son (who lives with my wife and I) is 28 has special needs but manages to hold down a full time job (not highly paid).
However he gets very generous benefits for being disabled and also gets a personal allowance to pay for an assistant to take him to Alton Towers and rock festivals and similar activities as he cant go on his own.
Because his outgoings are very low (as he lives with us) he has managed to save about £15,000 (the benefits are NOT means tested).
I think his benefits are FAR too generous, though I am not going to complain.
My wife also works with children and teenagers who have severe special needs and for some of these youngsters the yearly budget is £25,000 to £30,000 to look after them (to provide medical support, education, personal assistants etc).
I am not saying they should not have this support but the financial cost if you roll it out across the thousands of young people who need this type of support it runs in to the multi millions.
Since the second world war we have become more and more "easy going" about giving money away - to benefit scroungers, to foreign countries, to NHS fraud, to the EU (to which we have paid billions) but now that easy going nature is coming back to bite us.
We only have ourselves to blame.
When did austerity begin?
In the current financial year total government spending is forecast to reach £818bn. Twelve years ago it was around £600bn. So it has increased by 36% in that time. Inflation over that period was near enough the same. So there has been no real terms decrease in public spending. To achieve this the government has had to borrow enormous sums each year. Current spending equates to over £13,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. How much more do of other people's money do you believe they must spend?
In the current financial year total government spending is forecast to reach £818bn. Twelve years ago it was around £600bn. So it has increased by 36% in that time. Inflation over that period was near enough the same. So there has been no real terms decrease in public spending. To achieve this the government has had to borrow enormous sums each year. Current spending equates to over £13,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. How much more do of other people's money do you believe they must spend?
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