• The post you are reporting:
   
  Amusing and interesting that I can be brought into a discussion without even commenting, at least give me a chance to say something without assuming! Remember the old saying to ASS U ME is to make an ASS out of U and ME.
  
  I suspect that what you are seeing is a touch of cynisism by the public rather than anything else and you cannot blame them. I have posted before about how our system works against good financial management by effectively encouraging government to keep spending to get votes. That is why they don't think that cuts are temporary, they think that the government will go back to spending to buy votes. I hope they are wrong.
  
  Howard - that is not quite right, you are being too simplistic, in the sense that only essential services were described that way. There are a lot of services that are not essential and are being cut back and some stopped all together. The government was always open about saying that it does too much and needs trimming. The 'small government', 'big society' and localism (handing back responsibilities to people and away from government) are all evidence of that.
  
  Yes Mark - they are not going far enough in getting out of our lives...but are making some significant progress.

Report Post

Your Name

Reason