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  DT1 - first of all Brown had built up a structural deficit from 2005 so Cameron was right to say public spending needed to be cut well before the recession. In fact Brown started on his spending spree from 2001 if you look at the figures and as the left love to use Keynes as an excuse for deficit spending, you should see what he says about reducing deficits in the growth phase of the economy. If he had used Keynes theories when it was not convenient to do so we would never have faced the levels of debt and deficit we did at the start of the slowdown in 2007 and, as a result, would be in a far better position to deal with the recession and would not be facing the cuts we are. That of course ignores Browns 'off balance sheet' spending which he started in 1997 which also contributes to the problems and need to cut.]
  
  Nice to see you acknowledge the need to reform the public sector pensions. The large private sector firms have gone through the same process with their schemes and there is nothing special about the public sector that says they should be a special case. So far there has not been adequate reform and the current proposals simply do not do enough to finalise the issue.
  
  You talk about some jobs being more worthwhile than others. I understand that but I have to disagree but only up to a point. Good teachers like you alongside good nurses and doctors clearly do a valuable and worthwhile job but their job cannot be done without the resources to do them. Those resources have to be paid for and it is the private sector firms generating profit and providing jobs that provide those resources. For that reason I would not suggest that the Chief Executive of a successful enterprise providing jobs and tax revenue is any less worthwhile that a teacher. That said some jobs are certainly less worthwhile, I would include a lot of the beaurocratic paper chasers such as anyone with 'access' or 'equality' in their job titles, these are all about politically correct social engineering and do nothing useful at all.

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