Gordon Lawrence, Sheffield. Yorks Post.
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concerns me and, I believe, a host of others, at the constant call for more and
more money to be thrown at problems that are exaggerated in the context of the
country’s overall situation.
Special interest groups, who are past masters at
gaining access to a hungry media, are the ones who create the greatest volume of
noise and they are usually aggressively backed by left-wing zealots who would
never consider how the money they attempt to extract is created by a printing
machine at the Royal Mint or in the vast acres of Britain’s money tree orchards.
Stealing from other people’s pockets has become an art form in the human rights
business – political correctness is a potent source for justifying this
haemorrhaging of taxpayers’ lifeblood. We constantly hear the plaintive calls
for new government interventions and regulation that calls for costly
bureaucratic hierarchies to be set up. Very often the fundamental reason for the
problem arising in the first place is some sacred political cow. The most lethal
weapon of Jeremy Corbyn and most of the left, as well as the rising influence of
the under-25s, is the word “austerity”; it is almost a meaningless cliché but it
not only acts as a battle cry for the economically illiterate but saves them
from having to put forward any logical argument. Very few can see it is their
persistent demands for more public money to be shovelled into the ovens of
social self-indulgence that cutbacks have to be initiated in vital
wealth-creating schemes such as a Hull to Liverpool railway link, a road tunnel
through the south Pennines from Sheffield to Manchester (the Snake Pass A57 – a
national disgrace not to have been short circuited before) and so much more.
And, of course, the overpowering debt (Gordon Brown’s legacy of overspending,
for example), now £1.7 trillion, wrought by the wasteful profligacy I’ve already
cited, inhibits the possibility of satisfying the very issues eventually that
the Left and young people’s lobby champion.Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-more-money-is-no-answer-to-social-woes-1-8639941
