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Government needs to spend....
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...another £ 4.2 Billion a year to meet their target to halve child poverty by 2010.
Luckily the Government appears to have plenty of spare cash to chuck at problems at the moment, so £ 4.2 billion should be easy to 'rustle up' !!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7896085.stm
Luckily the Government appears to have plenty of spare cash to chuck at problems at the moment, so £ 4.2 billion should be easy to 'rustle up' !!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7896085.stm
'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
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LOL, or.....
someone once explain that the poverty stats were based on relative poverty, it was a facvinating read, wish I could remember more of it. Any was, once we are talking relativity they can cut spending and still meet targets presumably?
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