Spitting Image 1985 - job losses and gains sketch

Spitting Image 1985 - job losses and gains sketch

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[hogalog]

sign on, sign on, with a pen, in yer hand, and youll never get, a job! youll never get, a job, sign on, sign on!

its pretty accurate for today though. ive lost my job and theres nothing going. apart from "blended learning coordinator" and other bullshit non jobs at the government.

[RichP621]

Given that we've exceeded the national debt of the 1980s, it already is worse.

[Wingalot]

once you take into account the tax revenue from the normal sector..you will inevitably see it cannot feasibly fund the public sector..because of the cuts in the ordinary sector. More cuts = less tax = more cuts in public sector = more benefits = more cuts..and so on. Democracy, or rather, this pilitical system cannot sustain itself, or at least it will eventually collapse...when it does, what are we going to do about it?

[Wingalot]

@thejackroller Probally a bit late, but what the hell. Perhaps you need to read a book too. This is not a marxist, communist, socialist or imperial government in the UK..it's a democracy. No point comparing us to russian or china or cuba...because we are not there, and we don't have thier economy.

What we do have is public sector larger than any other sector. This imballance is where the problem is. The public sector if funded by taxes from the ordinary sector

[SiorafasNaCillini]

Trademark biased British media. Good sketch.

[alanheath2]

@thejackroller It does not make sense to me. Does that mean that the public sector should cut its payroll in good times ? I have never seen that happen.

Furthermore expecting a civil servant to manage something better than a professional is asking a bit much.

[thejackroller]

@Dalek1230 You're an idiot. You don't even know if I'm a socialist and you're accusing me of being some kind of marxist revolutionary. Which I'm not. In the soviet union and cuba there is/was no private sector, they're planned economies. Again, read a fucking book. What I'm proposing is a simplified version of something called Keynesian economics. I recommend you look it up. It's not socialism, it's called regulated capitalism. Or, you can keep living in your little fantasy world. I don't care.

[Dalek1230]

@thejackroller Never, NEVER! has so much rubbish been committed to the web before. Lets look at all the Socialist"Economies" (not to lower the meaning of the word). No your right, they are doing so well and havent even come close to collapsing ! Cuba, The Soviet Union - Oh, oh never mind. They never last more than 100 years mate :)

[thejackroller]

@Dalek1230 Read a GCSE economics textbook, dear god. The private sector creates jobs at times of boom and cuts them in times of bust. You don't have to be bright to see that this is how a capitalist economy will probably work. If people are spending less, companies are making less money, less jobs are providable. The public sector therefore either picks up the slack when the private sector is in decline, by investing in more jobs, or we get high unemployment. Make sense to you?

[Professor6871]

@smartverity Yes depressingly so.

[hogalog]

@Professor6871 he, or his government, have presided over the private sector creating close to 5000 jobs round here lately and securing thousands more.... the problem is those new jobs dont start for a few years yet and we are skint now.

[hogalog]

@Professor6871 ive had a few temporary ones but nothing solid at the moment. i live in the north east though so..... the economy here is beginning to blossom a bit, theres been a lot of jobs announced in the past few weeks but most wont be starting for another 3 or 4 years yet.