http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... -21079572/
BRITAIN will be hit harder than any other country by the global financial crisis this year, according to a damning report.
And Scotland is heading for an even worse recession than the rest of the UK, business leaders warned yesterday.
The International Monetary Fund said the UK economy will shrink by 2.8 per cent, more than double their previous prediction and far worse than America and the rest of Europe.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Exper ... 6196078.jp
ANOTHER severe warning of the economic pain to be inflicted on Scotland has been delivered in a report predicting cuts in public sector pay and jobs.
One of Scotland's most influential opinion-forming institutions has said that there should be "no sacred cows" when it comes to making savings.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh has said that none of the SNP Government's key policies including those on class sizes, student fees, nursing care and concessionary travel should be exempt from cuts.
Socialism is just another way the aristocrats keep the masses down. The Road to Serfdom anyone?Welfare was designed to improve our lives, but hasn’t.
Over most of the past century, the liberal democracies of the west were distinguished from totalitarian regimes in eastern and central Europe - communist, but also at one time fascist and National Socialist - by representative government and a rule of law. But the democracies themselves were increasingly divided by the Atlantic. The countries that now form the core of the European Union developed elaborate systems of public health care, education and welfare funded by taxation and directed by the state (as indeed did those dictatorships). The United States did not.http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics ... alism-judtBut perhaps part of our real problem is something different from an imaginary assault on public welfare. Could it be that the welfare state itself has gone wrong, with consequences unintended as well as malign? Judt's book is dedicated to his schoolboy sons, with his awareness of "how inadequately we have furnished them with the means to improve" the world they will inherit. Some of the reasons for that problematic legacy are discussed in another new book, The Pinch, by the Conservative frontbencher David Willetts. He shows how the baby-boom generation, born in the 20 years after the end of the Second World War (which includes Judt, Willetts and myself), has been selfish and thriftless in ways that have greatly attenuated prospects for the next generation, while welfare may have discouraged social mobility, or even the well-being of the masses.
I'm glad you in Scotland like your socialism. It seems Americans prefer their liberty. We never wanted to be anyone's serfs.