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@Gazatronium-Ethane 406104 wrote:

to save money? there spending £2.1 billion. thats not saving money. i know the old saying spend money to make money, but this is retarded

£2.1bn isn’t a huge amount of money in the scheme of things. I’ve got the government’s spending figures for 2007/8 on my computer and apparently total benefit spending for that year was £125.3bn (granted, £57.6bn of that was on pensions, I guess they’re not included in the proposals). Of course it depends whether spending that £2.1bn is going to make any real improvement, otherwise it’s a lot of money to put down the toilet in anyone’s language.

@Gazatronium-Ethane 406110 wrote:

i suppose but, to be fair, this country needs all the cash it can get, so why spend what it doesn’t have?

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@Gazatronium-Ethane 406112 wrote:

but capitalism is the source of evil

There’s a programme on channel 4 right this moment that’s pissing me off. It’s about how increasing public spending doesn’t work, and it’s just about the most right-wing programme I’ve ever seen on terrestrial TV. Check it out.

Edit: Just finished watching. It basically seemed to say that the UK is nearly as bad as communist Russia, we should scrap the NHS, sack most of the public sector and return to the 19th century, when Britain ruled the world. It featured various greasy city-boy types and such impartial guests as Neil Hamilton and Vanessa Feltz.

*Devil’s advocate* In the context of JSA alone or as a consideration of all the benefits being received?