Shedding public service jobs has to be staggered to fit into (hopefully) an economy of slow growth: the Tories are suggesting they can ignore any 'question of timing' to manage this unemployment.
Public service jobs also need to reflect the trends more closely, Driving examiners for example, are often taken on 18 years after a peak in baby numbers, yet it seems to take years for the numbers to lower again as civil service tends to use "natural fallout" deaths and retirement etc to lower those staffing rates again.
If the Market doesn't rein itself in, it's going to kill its host, which isn't good for the business of a parasite.
This will be a tough one, the Market has too much autonomy and no "Strong ethical leader", lots of little scammers taking old ladies for all they have whilst flying under the radar of the "Leaders", I'm no financial wizard, but I can see future problems with the present system, once more dumping the poor well out of it. I find it laughable that people consider spending £5 on a cup of coffee, I find it even more laughable at just how many consider "Inflation" to be the major factor reflecting the coffee price :o We cannot continue screwing the third world for our goods, their water table is getting lower and lower and more polluted, it'll come back on us all soon and bite us in the A$$
As for the bailouts, I'd have let the banks fail to be quite honest, everyone was insured to the tune of £30K per acct, the people would not have lost out the way the public and their grand-kids have been re-mortgaged to pay for rich mens greed.
after all, nothing's too big to fail really, including the whole capitalist system.
My father once said, "It's the best system we know" and whilst I keep trying to claw my way out of it, I doubt I could pay my rent by barter-system, I do know I'd have a much more varied life if we were all left to our own devices (and own food production) instead of being forced into the 9-5 routine, but making that work and having some sort of saftey net is nigh on impossible these days.
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Public service jobs also need to reflect the trends more closely, Driving examiners for example, are often taken on 18 years after a peak in baby numbers, yet it seems to take years for the numbers to lower again as civil service tends to use "natural fallout" deaths and retirement etc to lower those staffing rates again.
If the Market doesn't rein itself in, it's going to kill its host, which isn't good for the business of a parasite.
This will be a tough one, the Market has too much autonomy and no "Strong ethical leader", lots of little scammers taking old ladies for all they have whilst flying under the radar of the "Leaders", I'm no financial wizard, but I can see future problems with the present system, once more dumping the poor well out of it. I find it laughable that people consider spending £5 on a cup of coffee, I find it even more laughable at just how many consider "Inflation" to be the major factor reflecting the coffee price :o We cannot continue screwing the third world for our goods, their water table is getting lower and lower and more polluted, it'll come back on us all soon and bite us in the A$$
As for the bailouts, I'd have let the banks fail to be quite honest, everyone was insured to the tune of £30K per acct, the people would not have lost out the way the public and their grand-kids have been re-mortgaged to pay for rich mens greed.
after all, nothing's too big to fail really, including the whole capitalist system.
My father once said, "It's the best system we know" and whilst I keep trying to claw my way out of it, I doubt I could pay my rent by barter-system, I do know I'd have a much more varied life if we were all left to our own devices (and own food production) instead of being forced into the 9-5 routine, but making that work and having some sort of saftey net is nigh on impossible these days.