Comments on: The depressing debate on public spending

By: Letting the Tories Win « Bad Conscience

Letting the Tories Win « Bad Conscience — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:24:02 +0000

[...] it happens, is stock Keynesian thinking and is (finally) starting to get an airing (and here, and here) against the Conservative mantra that huge cuts are needed because of national debt (whilst making [...]

By: a fightback on public spending? | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:06:59 +0000

[...] fightback on public spending? Posted at 6:10 pm on 22 Jul 09 by Nigel Stanley Adam and I have both been depressed by the recent debate on public spending. Indeed there now seems to be a [...]

By: ad

ad — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:04:53 +0000

But while the national deficit and surplus will go up and down

I am told that it will take a quarter of a century to pay off the debt, and get back to where we were in 1997.

Some people now entering the workforce will have grandchildren before they have paid off this debt.

Think about that.

By: Jackart

Jackart — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:28:47 +0000

Yes. We do have a structural deficit. And you know it. (or you’re too stupid to breathe) We are running a criminal deficit, and we were before the crash. By ‘we’ I mean the bunch of incompetent Labour scum you’re shilling for. Obviously I voted for the other lot.

I can’t wait to see Labour’s diversity outreach coordinators on the dole, where they cost me less.

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:45:05 +0000

Putting forward arguments for increased public spending aren’t easy – especially since the main proponent is a discredited Prime Minister who actually plans cuts just as we are coming out of recession in the next few years (if we are, and I doubt it).

I expect that there will be another round of bailouts as the crisis worsens.