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Massive Job Losses expected in Public Sector
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »The public sector is nothing but a giant parasite in the intestines of the wealth creating private sector.
It has now grown so large and so hungry for resources, it is in danger of killing off the host.
A massive public sector jobs cull, spending cuts, and benefits reductions to a strict time limit of 4 years per person per lifetime, (obviously excluding the genuinely severely disabled) would be a price worth paying for a house price crash.
Are you feeling ok? Just you are talking sense.0 -
amcluesent wrote: »Canny public-sector managers will have seen this coming for 18 months...
Where does one find one of those then?0 -
kennyboy66 wrote: »Perhaps the real radical idea from the Conservatives will be to scrap national payscales for the likes of Education and Health.
(you could ay the same thing about the national minimum wage).
It'd be a start TBH. Living on £25,000 in London and Liverpool are very different propositions I would imagine.kennyboy66 wrote: »The CEBR did a report on this a few months ago and pointed out that government spending in Cuba as % of GDP is expected to fall to 60% in the next year or so.
Yes Cuba !
Cuba as bastion of laisser faire economics. Hooda thought?0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »The public sector is nothing but a giant parasite in the intestines of the wealth creating private sector.
It has now grown so large and so hungry for resources, it is in danger of killing off the host.
A massive public sector jobs cull, spending cuts, and benefits reductions to a strict time limit of 4 years per person per lifetime, (obviously excluding the genuinely severely disabled) would be a price worth paying for a house price crash.
Have you been doing a creative writing class?0 -
With every cloud (and this might be more of a thunderstorm than a cloud) there will be a silver lining.
When faced with less money, public sector enterprises will have to find cheaper, possibly better ways of doing things.
Besides, we can survive after a cull. It would be tough but we would still come through it.
Many people on here I imagine have seen significant changes in their life recently. I know I have. But, somehow, you adjust and move on.0 -
Are you feeling ok? Just you are talking sense.
:rotfl:
Apologies, normal service will be resumed shortly.:D“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Have you been doing a creative writing class?
A sh*te writing class more like...Not Again0 -
Old_Slaphead wrote: »Why aren't these sourced via the jobcentre ?
Why let the agencies "cream it". Is the jobcentre is too inefficient to compete?
No idea why not. Some probably are. But on the whole, these jobs are recruited via PRIVATE agencies. If it was done via the job centres, it would save us money in the long un, though in the short term you'd get worse candidates, as professionals in these areas wouldn't normally ever go to the job centre or look at the jobs it has listed; they're not usually out of work currently, so they look at professional agencies that focus on their area.
I agree, I think developing specialisms within the job centres, to cater for professional-level jobs as well as unskilled work, would be an investment in the long term.0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Have you been doing a creative writing class?
:rotfl:
Sometimes, you just have to phrase things in a way these leftie loony types will understand.
A large and bloated public sector is not an asset for society, it's a disease, much like cancer, and it must be cured. No matter how painful the treatment is, because if it's allowed to grow any further it will end up killing the economy.
The role of government is to provide the bare minimum of services required for society to function and to do so as cheaply and efficiently as humanly possible.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
No idea why not. Some probably are. But on the whole, these jobs are recruited via PRIVATE agencies. If it was done via the job centres, it would save us money in the long run
You would have to up the rate of the jobcentre staff to get some professionals in there who know what they are doing.
At the moment it more than half full of know-at-alls (who know nothing) & people just not cut out for commercial interaction.Not Again0
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