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Not Paying Down Deficit-Cons Think Voters Cant Understand Sums
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With the deficit starting to rise again I think the jury is still out. It's obvious that the deficit has to be reduced and eliminated if possible but as there has only been a 6 years in the last 30 when there wasn't a deficit (4 of them under labour) I'm not sure it's going to be possible and if it is it's going to take a lot more than austerity.
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Back to the op, half the electorate can't do sums. The half that vote labour.
More than half of MPs can't either
"A recent survey by the Royal Statistical Society’s “getstats” campaign asked MPs to give the probability of getting two heads when tossing a coin twice. More than half failed to get the answer correct – including a humiliating three-quarters of Labour MPs."
http://timharford.com/2012/10/why-arent-we-doing-the-maths/0 -
4 pages in and people are still trying to explain what the deficit is to DimLittleWanka!? There's no point; even if his addled little brain could grasp it, when he did he'd only find some other Labour sound bite on the pre-school Labour forum and parrot that instead.
I don't know why people try engaging with the dimwit. Best put him on ignore and not respond... but it is so easy to succumb to the temptation to feed the trolls.0 -
I don't know why people try engaging with the dimwit. Best put him on ignore and not respond... but it is so easy to succumb to the temptation to feed the trolls.
Yes, please everybody put these trolls on Ignore and leave the threads that they start unopened. The forum would be so much the better for it. There will probably be a few other hard lefties who can't resist using them as mouthpieces, but those with some degree of objectivity would be better off to pretend that they don't exist.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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Higher public spending may well have made things worse & not just in terms of how much we owe.
http://www.cityam.com/forum/the-real-world-high-taxes-restrict-economic-growth
Ed Balls would love everyone to be stupid enough to believe his garbage but thankfully most people remember he was the imcompetent who got us into so much debt & deficit to begin with, therefore his views are worthless.
A sensible use of the word MAY and seems to convey they same message as my my post.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »We already have a high level of public spending. Which may well be detrimental to long economic stability. Banking crisis is far from over.
There is consumption public spending and capital public spending we need to make a distinction. In addition the capital spending we probably need doesn't necessarily have to come from the public purse (e.g. toll roads, house building?) but it does need encouragement and a creation of the right environment by the Govt.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
GeorgeHowell wrote: »Yes, please everybody put these trolls on Ignore
But when I put Labour cheerleader trolls like DLW and Conservative cheerleader trolls like yourself on ignore, there's nothing left to read.
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Higher public spending would have made things worse by increasing the already vast public debt even further, which would have to be repaid with interest sometime, or incur interest servicing for ever. That would be far more detrimental than a period of flat-lining GDP coupled with starting to pare off some of the worst excesses of overblown, unjustified, and damaging welfare dependency.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »But when I put Labour cheerleader trolls like DLW and Conservative cheerleader trolls like yourself on ignore, there's nothing left to read.
Please feel free to put me on Ignore. Deprivation of your smart-a r s e leftie retorts is a penance that I can endure. If you think I am a troll it just shows what a dimwit you are.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0
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