Wednesday, September 13, 2006
More money well spent
The Telegraph reports here on increased education spending, producing decreased results.
Apparently: "Britain came top of 30 countries for increased spending but has slipped down the graduate league table because schools are not producing enough suitable candidates for university".
Quite when will the official opposition wake up to simple facts that are starring everybody else in the face? We're spending more and more on state services and getting less and less results. The answer isn't to spend more money; the answer is to brutally cut both spending and taxes.
State services are bad, and it's nothing to do with the amount of money we throw at them, they will always be bad. There's no inbuilt incentive to provide a good service, the money comes regardless, this basic carrot and stick approach has been the underpinning of private services and trade for millennia, but it's an approach which does not accord with our socialist statist masters so they ignore it and "hang the expense" after all it isn't their money. If every politician and civil servant was personally responsible for their mess ups, no one would ever argue that increased spending on state services was the answer, no matter how socialist they purported to be.
In any event the socialist excuse shouldn't apply to the Conservative party. There are plenty of coherent sensible arguments to be made in favour of decreased state spending and immediate tax cuts. Cameron should "grow a pair" and start making these arguments.
The electorate aren't stupid and have never been in love with Blair, they'd welcome a real alternative.
Apparently: "Britain came top of 30 countries for increased spending but has slipped down the graduate league table because schools are not producing enough suitable candidates for university".
Quite when will the official opposition wake up to simple facts that are starring everybody else in the face? We're spending more and more on state services and getting less and less results. The answer isn't to spend more money; the answer is to brutally cut both spending and taxes.
State services are bad, and it's nothing to do with the amount of money we throw at them, they will always be bad. There's no inbuilt incentive to provide a good service, the money comes regardless, this basic carrot and stick approach has been the underpinning of private services and trade for millennia, but it's an approach which does not accord with our socialist statist masters so they ignore it and "hang the expense" after all it isn't their money. If every politician and civil servant was personally responsible for their mess ups, no one would ever argue that increased spending on state services was the answer, no matter how socialist they purported to be.
In any event the socialist excuse shouldn't apply to the Conservative party. There are plenty of coherent sensible arguments to be made in favour of decreased state spending and immediate tax cuts. Cameron should "grow a pair" and start making these arguments.
The electorate aren't stupid and have never been in love with Blair, they'd welcome a real alternative.
