Military Thursday Part 3 - Things we spend our money on
Clearly we don't need to spend the taxpayers hard earned nickle on body armour, fit for purpose patrol vehicles, helicopters or training (see todays posts passim)
Nearly a million jobs in private industry and commerce have been lost in just 15 months, the latest unemployment figures showed yesterday. But the full impact of the recession has been shrugged off in the public sector, which has seen a boom of over 300,000 in recruitment of bureaucrats. There was an increase of 88,000 in the jobless numbers in the three months to August.
While the rise pushed the total up to 2.47million, it was the smallest jump since last spring. Ministers hope the figures may signal an improvement in the economy, but the gloss was taken off by the extent to which the Treasury has subsidised employment. But while hundreds of thousands of taxpayer-funded jobs have been created in Whitehall and its branches, town halls and quangos, the private sector has been punished. And pay rises in the public sector are running far ahead of inflation and at nearly three times the rate of wage increases in private business.
At the end of June there were more than six million workers in the public sector, up by 304,000 on March 2008 when the recession started to bite.
Dear readers, I can assure you all without fear of contradiction, if I were given a mandate & enough 7.62mm ammunition, I could achieve massive spending cuts in under five working days - in fact, sod it, just give me the mandate, I'll pay for the ammo myself.
Comments
Not at those prices, you wouldn't, matey. Not even a bloated plutocrat* like yourself has enough of the ready to fund such an endeavour.
I'd happily step up to the plate with a few thousand donated rounds, however. I don't have too much .308 (mostly because I don't own a .308 rifle), but as for 6.5 Swede... ooooh, baby. Enough there to make a sizable dent in the jobsworth population. And it's steel-cored milsurp, which gives you a distinct possibility of multiple kills with single shots, if the targets are packed closely together.
I'd better stop there.
*That's what The Englishman calls you, in private. I think it's a compliment.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | October 15, 2009 5:08 PM