A general political musing...
It seems at the moment that there are lots of 'policies' aimed more at sounding good than at actually delivering good...
like stopping people not entitled to NHS treatment from getting it...
Sounds great. Costs vastly more than it saves...
Is it worth so much to us to say 'that's not fair' that we would rather spend our money on making it 'fair' than treating entitled patients?
Also benefits cheats. So a very very few people cheat...but it would cost more than you get back to chase them. Do we really want the system to be fairer or would we like more police on the streets?
We want to reduce the deficit (well some people do anyway...I am personally not overly fussed) so does it make more sense to take a little more from the multinational corporations or to cut back benefits (again) and scrape in the pennies? Actually I don't know the answer to this one...but I would decide on the basis of the bottom line income wise...not on whether I considered people on benefits to be work shy or multinationals to be greedy...(I don't).
So is it bonkers to care primarily about what actually works? And not so much on feelings/policies/looking tough on crime etc?
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ICBINEG · 19/08/2013 13:39
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