500,000 Public Sector Workers Culled

tesuhoha

Well, you are calling me scum. I work very hard, never strike, have not had a sick day for the past two years and earn £7 an hour. You're making a generalisation about public sector workers so I thought I would try to find out why you are worthier than I.

tesuhoha

If I got a 50% pay cut i would be on £3.50 an hour.

The_White_Horse

but what i earn is irrelevant because i am not public sector and the tax payer is not paying my salary.

I (along with all other tax payers) pay your salary - and please don't say you pay tax, because that is not money generated, that is money recycled.

tesuhoha

The_White_Horse wrote: »

but what i earn is irrelevant because i am not public sector and the tax payer is not paying my salary.

I (along with all other tax payers) pay your salary - and please don't say you pay tax, because that is not money generated, that is money recycled.

Well, I work in a school office helping to produce school reports, timetables, admitting new students, keeping student data and doing a lot more than that to ensure that the school runs smoothly. I think I provide a valuable service to both parents and pupils. Without people like me schools would be in chaos because the teachers do not know how to do the admin. Likewise the dinner ladies, cleaners, caretakers etc.

According to you I am scum and should have my salary cut to £3.50 an hour because you pay my salary out of your taxes.

Well, how about getting rid of all the people whose salary you pay, binmen, school staff, grass cutters, snow plough drivers, etc and then see how well you and the country functions without them. You would be better off financially no doubt but you would have rats in your front garden. Please dont say you can take your rubbish to the tip because that is run by council workers too.

Surely in any society people are still needed to work to help the country run smoothly?? Surely those people deserve their pay as much as you do as they do a useful job.

Personally I have many people who work in the private sector phoning me asking me for help to place their child in the school.

Hauptmann

Some of the posters on here make quite extraordinary comments. To describe public sector workers as 'blood sucking scum' suggests the writer has completely lost his/her marbles.
I am not (and never have been) a public sector worker (ditto my wife). However the public sector is essential to my way of life. Think about health, education, policing, fire services. Not to mention things like provision of basic services such as waste disposal (needed for my business) street lighting and road maintenance.
Pretty much all major life events involve the public sector. Not to mention major scientific and technical advances in universities etc.

I suspect a lot of the 'tough talking' about public sector will die down once people realise cutbacks will affect THEM and not just 'other people'. I also suspect that we have been exposed to a lot of propaganda via the newspapers about public sector workers - this to ensure that there is no sympathy for them if we have strikes etc.

In December 2009 the National Audit Office put the cost of the bank bailout at £850bn, and RBS were asking for another £1.5bn of TAXPAYERS MONEY to cover bonuses. Now they are what I call blood-sucking scum taking money from the taxpayer. And now we are cutting back university funding by £4.5bn to saddle youngsters with yet more debt and cutting back UK scientific research by £1bn. The workforce of this country are being encouraged to turn on each other, whilst the people who caused it walk away with fat bonuses.

The big companies always win out (e.g. the 30+ big company bosses writing to the papers supporting the cuts) whilst the small business community get it in the neck. The FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) doesn't support the speed and depth of the cuts by the way!

BargainGalore

So you dont benefit in any way from the tax payer. You dont use any public services, you don't have kids that go to comprehansive school unless private that is

You dont rely on libraries, social services, trains (part funded by tax payer) or even have you bin emptied (part paid for by government and council tax)

Most of all your not a cretin because you dont live in social housing either

The_White_Horse wrote: »

but what i earn is irrelevant because i am not public sector and the tax payer is not paying my salary.

I (along with all other tax payers) pay your salary - and please don't say you pay tax, because that is not money generated, that is money recycled.

BargainGalore

To call people who work in public sector as blood sucking scum and call people who live in council housing as "cretins" really shows what kind of person you are

The_White_Horse wrote: »

is that all? hateful public sector have gotten away with it scott free. i wanted to see at least 3m culled immediately. the remaining 50% to get a 50% pay cut.

these people are blood sucking scum.

tesuhoha

Hauptmann wrote: »

Some of the posters on here make quite extraordinary comments. To describe public sector workers as 'blood sucking scum' suggests the writer has completely lost his/her marbles.
I am not (and never have been) a public sector worker (ditto my wife). However the public sector is essential to my way of life. Think about health, education, policing, fire services. Not to mention things like provision of basic services such as waste disposal (needed for my business) street lighting and road maintenance.
Pretty much all major life events involve the public sector. Not to mention major scientific and technical advances in universities etc.

I suspect a lot of the 'tough talking' about public sector will die down once people realise cutbacks will affect THEM and not just 'other people'. I also suspect that we have been exposed to a lot of propaganda via the newspapers about public sector workers - this to ensure that there is no sympathy for them if we have strikes etc.

In December 2009 the National Audit Office put the cost of the bank bailout at £850bn, and RBS were asking for another £1.5bn of TAXPAYERS MONEY to cover bonuses. Now they are what I call blood-sucking scum taking money from the taxpayer. And now we are cutting back university funding by £4.5bn to saddle youngsters with yet more debt and cutting back UK scientific research by £1bn. The workforce of this country are being encouraged to turn on each other, whilst the people who caused it walk away with fat bonuses.

The big companies always win out (e.g. the 30+ big company bosses writing to the papers supporting the cuts) whilst the small business community get it in the neck. The FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) doesn't support the speed and depth of the cuts by the way!

Excellent post. Agree with every word.

bendix

tomterm8 wrote: »

I think it will have quite a lot of impact on the economy.

Indeed it will. Instead of paying them £40,000 a year salaries to be breast-feeding coordinators and another £10,000 a year to finance their final salary pension, they will instead be cost the taxpayer £5000 a year dole money.

Lovely jubbly.

tomterm8

Yeah, because everyone in the public sector earns £40k a year.

You do spout a lot of crap, sometimes, Bendix.