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Thread #78348   Message #1411743
Posted By: GUEST,Bunnahabhain
16-Feb-05 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Forthcoming UK election - important issue
Subject: RE: BS: Forthcoming UK election - important issu
What IS wrong with less Goverment?
Nothing, except it would require those in power to decide that we know what we want to do with our money than them. Money and power are addictive.

There are too many people with a vested intrest in expanding the state for it to be cut back without a huge political effort, which would need the backing of the electorate, and that can only come from the mass realisation that a change in the system is needed. Something we've not seen since Thatcher.

There are over one million people employed by the NHS. If it were propoposed that the health service was reformed, so a large proportion of them now worked for the private sector, there would be a huge opposition to it. The state has a near monopoly at the moment. Reforms would reduce this position of power. People are afraid of change, even it is likley they would be better off as a result.

Yes , there are some things goverment should do. Just far less of them than it does