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  Oh really Dave1.... The simple fact that this is about people, it is about getting more jobs, it is about better incomes and lifestyles. That is the whole point....
  
  What is totally absurd is to think that a government can spend, borrow and tax a way to prosperity.
  
  It is the private sector, only the private sector that creates new wealth from prosperous businesses. That is where all the taxes come to pay for the public services.
  
  If we are get get people back in jobs then we have to cut back the public sector to relieve the burden carried by the wealth creating private sector.
  
  Those guilty of causing all the problems we have are politicians. It is their reckless spending that is central to our problems and before things can get better the deficit must be balanced and we need to get to a more sustainable level of public spending.
  
  So yes - it is very much because of people and jobs it needs to be done.
  
  Keith - #46 - but if we went the route you suggest there would be even more borrowing, we would have lost the triple A rating a lot earlier. The Darling plan would have reduced the deficit a lot slower leaving us in a much bigger mess. Our problems, in part now, are because Osborne has not cut current account spending quickly or deeply enough. You cannot have it both ways.

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