| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re Brillian article - | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 13/11/10 09:36:00 |
| 'why should potential nurses, teachers, social workers etc. be obliged to go into debt in return for "the privilege" of serving the community on much lower salaries than future city spivs?' Martin Durkin's polemical but interesting programme earlier this week on Channel 4 pointed out that of the 7.5 million people working in the public sector there are only 2 million employed in jobs that people might generally recognise as useful e.g. teachers, police officers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, social workers etc. The other 5.5 million are not exclusively but significantly made up of part of a bloated public sector that makes up over 70% of the economy in places like the north east, Scotland and Wales. The thinking behind this is that Government spending would rejuvenate the regions when all it has done is stifled enterprise. He made a nice contrast between the beautiful Victorian centre of Newcastle built by the private sector and the general decay in the industrial base of the area. Future nurses, teachers and social workers and social workers have to go into debt because previous Governments (both Labour and Conservative) were so profiligate and at 53% of the economy the public sector is strangling the private sector with the tax burden it imposes putting us into a vicious circle of decline. He pointed out that under the present Government total spending is actually going to increase so they are not even beginning to tackle the problem. 'City Spivs' are part of the most productive sector of the British economy in terms of revenue contribution to the Exchequor and foreign exchange earnings. They are paid high salaries because the boards of these companies on behalf of the shareholders think they are worth it. Despite what is often said taxpayers' money is not used to fund these salaries |