We are gonna see strikes and job losses of 600,000.. Its gonna get worse
 

Over here in the UK we have just heard what else our govermant intend to do to try and cut or deficit by laying off 600,000 public sector workers. There is already talk of strike action from the unions. I think its gonna get real ugly over here in the next few years

"Some 600,000 jobs are expected to be lost in the public sector over the next six years, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said.

The OBR has forecasted 490,000 job losses by 2015 and 610,000 by 2016.

During a Commons exchange, David Cameron said unemployment would fall during the coalition government's term.

Denying Labour's claims that more would be "pushed into abject misery", he said: "There are going to be more people in work."

Mr Cameron said the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had produced full tables for employment in the public and private sectors - "something that never happened under a Labour government".

the full story here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10457352.stm

It sounds like the fun has just begun.

Yep we have just also been informed of tax raises and now this, Dont know if it will take our country out of the debt its now in, or not. I guess only time will tell

Cameron, Obama, are not in control. Its the bankers behind the scenes and this is all by design. :) Although, my favorite thing to watch in america is the house of commons, its fucking awesome. I wish american politicians could be grilled like that.

It needs to get worse before it gets better. You are better off with a quick crash and rebuild then a long, slow, drawnout, inevitable crash.

Either way. Hold onto your knickers.

So they are laying off people and raising taxes, sounds like a winning formula.....

600,000 sounds like a large number but what percentage of all public sector workers is that? Just curious. I know nothing about the UK but if it's anything like here, there are WAY too many public sector jobs than necessary.

I cant even aford to buy knickers anymore I now go commando its far cheaper :)

Yeah some are saying that because people will have far less money to spend it will affect the housing market and make the recovery even longer or push the country even further into debt, so i guess we just have to ride it out and see what happens

I blame the baby boomers. Raped and pillaged the land to no end, put our countries into huge debt, and are now living the high life in retirement while sucking away the social security, which won't even be around for us.

We're just stuck cleaning up the mess, and paying for their party.

It is, but its over 6 years Im not to sure what percentage that is but there is a lot of "waste jobs" in the public sector They are hoping that the private sector will take up the people who are laid off. One thing which did strike me as bad is they are even talking about cutting the police budget and they are already struggling which means there will be less police and more crime I guess

You can not increase the size of government without destroying wealth. We are seeing the results of what happens when governments get too big.

TBH I think the way the whole of the financial system works is at fault and it dosent help with us consumers living off credit all the time too. I think the whole system needs to change to fix things

fuck them illuminati cunts - I aint fighting in no shitty ass war.

All part of the fucking plan to cut jobs, bring the economy down then start WW3.

Well FUCK YOU we have WOKEN UP MOTHERFUCKERS.

hmmmm....
 

I am already on strike... I am not doing any more work till at least 1pm tomorrow ! :321GFY

Welcome to socialism's unsustainability.

Where I used to live, Rhode Island, the smallest state in the union, they have something like 15,000 state workers. That's insane!!

on the end

well on the other hand they cannot solve that problem.........

Holy cow .. now thats just wasting tax payers money

it has nothing to do with socialism being unsustainable, the public sector jobs are being trimmed not abolished, and the reason that money needs to be saved is mainly because of the banking sector collapse and government bailout.

You must be referring to private sector because there is rapid expansion in the public sector in Washington, as well as other places.

figures are for 2009

total UK employment - 28,876,000

public sector - 6,070,000

private sector - 22,806,000

21% of employment is public sector. knocking off 600,000 jobs will reduce public sector by 10% but if you go into any public sector thing it's very easy to find people who are paid to do nothing so it won't affect services however much the unions make a fuss.

forgot the stats source http://www.econstats.com/uk/uk_pse___.htm

the biggest problem with big government is we can't afford it, so this is what happens when the money dries up, government employee's loose their jobs

The Governments who borrowed money to prop up their public sector over spending are being brought back to reality. They can't keep building the debt to make the unemployment figures look good. Put simply it costs less to keep someone on benefits than to keep them in a useless job.

The underlying problem is these countries live beyond their means and import too much and export too little.

Good the majority of public workers are fucking useless.

all they do is create useless jobs and than tax the fuck out of businesses who are really driving the economy to pay for them.

and then when the businesses find it not financially feasible to run and close shop. the government wonders where all the jobs go.

you cant keep choking the people with taxes.

i'm refering to the public sector, which refers to government funded jobs in the UK