Thursday, April 09, 2009

Ignore the Tories. You can't cut your way out of a slump

Seumas Milne: Ignore the Tories. You can't cut your way out of a slump | Comment is free | The Guardian

Amid news of a calamitous fall in industrial production and improbably premature claims of green shoots of recovery, siren voices are warning against any further spending boost in this month's budget. Short of much else useful to say about the crisis, David Cameron's Tories are clamouring for cuts - starting with the pay of nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers who, as we are now led to believe, have been living the life of Riley while the corporate world has scrimped its way through the New Labour years.


Good article

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