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Corrupt Money Corrupts Absolutely with Godfrey Bloom (WiM220)
The "What is Money?" Show
Is It Possible for a Politician to Control Public Spending?
Is it possible for a politician to reign in public spending? It just doesn't seem like there's ever been the political will. We have over 6 and a half million civil servants, public employees. That's about six or seven times more than we had in the nineteenth century. And of course, eveybody in the public sector, by definition, is not a wealth creator. They're a wealth consumer. So wouldn't that mean austerity, if we cut public spending? This is not the time for austerity. But here, the funny thing is, an austerity, it isn't cutting public spending. That isn't austerity. The point is, you're sucking money out of the economy
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