Government Spending

letthestressbegin2010's picture
Mon, 10/11/2010 - 18:19
by letthestressbeg...

While listerning to the radio today it said that the government had got some big billion air in who own big massive companies to look at the governments spending on such as stationary, mobile phones, taxis, paper and so on.

Well this person had said that there spending was all over the place. There was just £ £ £ £ £ for each differnt thing like I mentioned above. The business man said if I ran my businesses like that the lights would go out in no time at all. Then the government try and tell us it is not that bad. May be they should cut back on all these high costs. Do they need to print every email out, supply thousands of biros and pencils etc. Do they not earn enough money to buy a pen or use there mobile phone for work.

I take my own pens to work and I use my mobile phone for work all long with my home phone line and broadband I use for work. So why can't they. I mean to say I get 600 minuets a month on my mobile phone contract and I know that if I should go over that lot and said look I have used this non stop for work then they would pay for what was used for work use.

So if the government are wasting money on such a big scale and still say oh it's not that bad then they should try and do our jobs and live on a lower income and see how they get on then. No taxis here or company jet planes.

I bet if some of us smaller people was in government we could soon find some areas to cut back on without it affecting the economy.
The bit that makes me laugh is the latest in the news where the government are trying to get people off incapacity money on to job seekers money which would seem to be lower so as to save them a million or two. There are people who can not work and need help.

The government should look on there own door step first and say right do we really need X, Y & Z.

I would love to here if anyone else has got any finance advice for the government. You never know someone from the government may just read the post on this forum and take some ideas on.

Marcus

mouse4u1's picture
Tue, 10/12/2010 - 17:55
by mouse4u1

Tongue Well no supprise there then. I always thought they just spent what they wanted to. I bet there is tons of things that go down to exspences etc. There must be loads of stuff they have and never use. Hey they could put some of the stuff that dose not have peoples details on Ebay and make a packet someone would like it.

How many new desks and chairs get bought that don't really need to be bought when they could have bought something else or said right we have X amount of thousands spare here lets put that back in to another project.

We should start a pole on what suggestions they could save money on and what to put it back in to.

That would be so good if someone from the government did read this forum as they may get some good ideas from it.

Mouse

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bordercollie's picture
Sat, 10/16/2010 - 19:32
by bordercollie

I have always said that the government spends money on what they like. I wonder just how many taxi, limo journeys are of private use and not work use. Do they really need to have and use everything.

Yes I agree they need some things to do there jobs ( when not sat in the bar ) but surely there will be no end of waste so it might be a good idea to send someone in to do a very big audit and just see what is being spent and where.

So yeah come on government get your act together and you might get the country back on track as well.

Darrell Puzzled

Darrell

bordercollie's picture
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 18:33
by bordercollie

Smile I have just heard on the news that even the queen is making cut backs on there spending as well so good on you. I wonder what they will be cutting back on. Urm amy be a few less crates of salmon for dinner.

Darrell
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Darrell

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