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The harsh truth is keeping someone employed in a job that doesn't produce a direct profit is expensive. It costs more than putting them onto the dole queue.
You have to pay them, supervise them, manage them, tool them up, locate them in an office, hospital, etc and give them something to do.
There's a strict rule in business. If it costs $100 on the wage bill it needs to return $300 to make it worthwhile. It can vary accordingly to industry.
So if you have council workers building roads the costs are high. As are all other workers. And at present the UK cant afford those costs, it's far better economics to put those people out of work than give them jobs. Yes I know it's tough, but there is no alternative.
Unless Private income can generate the money to pay them they have to go on the dole line. That has other costs, but not as much as having them employed in non direct profit producing jobs.
Simple economics.
But one of the replies shows the level of economic thinking.
Keep borrowing money to pay non essential public sector workers, so they can buy iPads.
A product made in China and owned by an American company.
The reason the UK economy is in the shitter is that these UK workers are buying cheap imported goods. Filling their shopping baskets with goods from China, India, Philippines, driving Japanese cars and keeping workers overseas employed in productive jobs.
If British workers boycotted buying Cadbury's chocolate and all the other products made by the owners. The jobs would of stayed in the UK. They don't, they buy products made overseas all the time.
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