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  GaryC - you are not really interested in the answers, you are one of those addicted to the Labour big Government.
  
  The costs of employing people are high and are much higher in the public sector than the private sector, the featherbedded pensions for one thing. You have to take into account accomodation as well and all the expenses associated with that and the costs of getting them to do their job (supervision - yes cutting at the bottom means less managers too) along with the costs of doing that job.. All this is paid for by revenues generated by the private sector - the taxes paid by employees of the public sector is only recyled as it came from us in the first place.
  
  A lot of the jobs done in the public sector are not even useful except in the eyes of bean counters, job that if not done will not be noticed.
  
  More and more people are starting their own businesses and many of those laid-off from the public sector will do so. I know a lot of people who are thankful for being made redundant because that spurred them on the do something they had always wanted to do instead but previously hung on to the comfort blanket of a salary. A recession is actuially a good time to start a business as the only way is then up, you just have to get through a lean period first rather than have it hit just as your new business is starting to take off. these new entrepeneurs will employ people too and suddenly those who were once merely consuming taxpayers money are contributing to the coffers.
  
  it is also true to say that no matter how worthless the public sector job someone does they are more employable than the dross that sit around on benefits for years.
  
  Rick - the vast bulk of the measures announced in the budget have not been enacted yet and those that have simply have not had time to impact on business. You, as all of us, are suffering from the deepest and longest recession in history, we are nowhere near out of it yet. Different types of business get hit at different times. I get a hit myself in two traunches, the first was from the investment crash, recovered from that even though the markets are still well below pre-credit crash levels and now there is a slow down in new client acquisition, this latter being less of a problem for me thanks to my business model. I do hear of other businesses in different sectors are picking up well while others remain stagnent. Too soon the blame the new government for our problems.

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