new goverments proposed cuts are petrifying me!!!!

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i have just got used to living on nothing and am now worrying about the cuts they are about to make...plus not helped by the fact ive just had a new baby. and even though i applied for work for over 12 months and got nothing am now more concerned that i will have to just take anywork and go back sooner i.e. when she is 3 or 4 months old.

anyone else worried about this?

I think we're all worried. I'm working and I'm also worried. The last thing I want to see another recession. My company does a lot of work with the government so am worried that the cuts will have a knock on effect on my company. I worry that I could lose my job in a year or so as the effects filter down.

However, I also understand that we cannot go on like we did. The last government was spending money we did not have. As a nation it's time we started living within our means.

They were terrifying me long before they were elected, but no-one would listen. (Niceguy wasn't it you telling us not to worry and to wait and see...?)

All this rubbish about 'it's worse than we though, the cuts will have to be deeper'... That just makes it sound like they have a justifiable reason and can't be blamed for it. It's their fault not ours that the cits are this bad. Well they would say that wouldn't they!

They really are going to send us backwards in term of recovery and it's going to take a lot longer to get over it.

And as it happens the labour government had already taken quite big steps to deal with the overspending issue. For example to phasing out of the tax free allowance for those on higher incomes.

I really think we would have been better for a bit longer with the safe pair of hands that was Gordon Brown, who was taking steps to tackle the deficit while trying to keep as many people as possible in work and out of poverty. They just were a bit smaller and slower than the current government are planning. But then slow and steady wins the race I tend to find...

Is this the same GB who got us in this mess in the first place? The Same man who didn't put anything aside when times were good? The same man whose party promised £8 billion of unfunded pre-election promises to the point were civil servants asked for instructions in writing? The same person who bribed the poor with free laptops when our nations finances were already in the toilet?

I think my "don't worry" was based on if you are claiming full benefits. If so then from the sounds of things the impact is limited. If you work like me then things may be rocky for some time.

Inevitable and like I said, necessary. Even labour would have had to make cuts and from what I've read in the press. They really are trying to avoid hitting the poor too much.