It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on July 02, 2011, 03:55:42 PM
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What appear to be savage reductions in public expenditure is in fact a very nasty game of politics that bodes particularly ill for America.
Rather than tighten belts and “ave a cuppa tea, luv, an’ just get on with it,” Britain’s governmental entities have begun slashing only those public service that mean the most to the public and its elected leadership while leaving the administrative waste untouched.
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Britain may flunk the test even before America takes the exam. Generations of socialism, and clever but predatory politicians, have made even the British middle-classes happy peons of the servile state. American middle-classes are less cosseted with subsidised education and social services than are their British cousins, but the difference is not as vast as many may think. American middle-class addiction to Medicare is just one pervasive example.
But it can be done. Tiny Latvia “abolished 30 percent of public sector jobs, and the wages of government employees who remain has been cut by 28 percent. A government deficit of 20 percent of GDP has been transformed into a surplus of 8 percent in just 2 years,” says ASI. But those who suffered poverty, communism and Soviet subjugation may be hardier than we.
LINK (http://www.imaginativeconservative.org/2011/06/is-it-curtains-for-great-britain.html)
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Looks like Brit's socialists are wanting to create a crisis of opportunity to me.