Reactionary public sector unions prevent efficient delivery of public services

[JollyRedGiant]

Another bash the public sector thread - how original.

Let's get this straight - the public sector didn't cause the current crisis - it was cause by the bankers, the spivs and the speculators - they are the ones who should carry the can not workers who try to do their best in difficult cicumstances with all you guys standing in line to stick the knife in.

[Twin Towers]

Surely if the overall economy is shrinking, so must the public sector?

[Big Bobo]

Surely if the overall economy is shrinking, so must the public sector?

It should be expanded if anything especially into the financial sector.

[Twin Towers]

It should be expanded if anything especially into the financial sector.

What financial sector? The IFSC is set to become a barren wasteland.

[Big Bobo]

What financial sector? The IFSC is set to become a barren wasteland.

I'm talking about nationalisations

[20000miles]

I'm talking about nationalisations

The government is inept enough at running the schools, universities, hospitals, buses, roads....

[Twin Towers]

I'm talking about nationalisations

In your dreams, Harpo

[patslatt]

You are so right-I am wrong to not enquire why those who benefited most from the boom -Developers, should pay their fair share or that perhaps unproductive assets (like land being held until the next boom) be taxed. Im so ashamed of my views! Slash my pay ,because the Bankers and Developers need my help. The 33,000 millionaires we generated -how are they coping?

Many big developers are being kept afloat by the banks but that can't last. Many developers have lost everything.

[patslatt]

Another bash the public sector thread - how original.

Let's get this straight - the public sector didn't cause the current crisis - it was cause by the bankers, the spivs and the speculators - they are the ones who should carry the can not workers who try to do their best in difficult cicumstances with all you guys standing in line to stick the knife in.

The public sector expansion was funded by the taxes collected from capital gains and stamp duty in the unsustainable property boom. Many property investors and all their banks are carrying the can in the sense that they have suffered huge losses and many will go bankrupt.

Now the reality is that those taxes are no longer available to pay for the unsustainable public sector expansion. So will the government let the public sector ride on the back of a greatly weakened private sector that may be entering a near depression in the economy with unemployment headed into the teens? Or will it introduce redundancies of maybe 50,000 public sector workers?

[Big Bobo]

The government is inept enough at running the schools, universities, hospitals, buses, roads....

That's because the public sector is run by pro-capitalists who only seek to use the public sector for the gains of the private sector.