Let me spell it out: The point Robert was making (quite correctly as far as I’m concerned) is that using child exploitation as a metaphor/analogy for what the current government is doing is well out of line, completely inappropriate and unwarranted and dangerously misrepresenatative, precisely because child exploitation is (obviously) much much worse!

(I really must wonder how you could not understand that from what he wrote…)

In fact, as I’ve pointed out in a prior post, it’s actually the other way round — Our children will be the ones to pay in decades to come if we dont deal with the excessive debts of today and spending excesses still present in the system (created only recently by the previous government). What exactly is the problem with curbing excessive spending that we collectively can ill afford at this point in time?

If you want to really understand what this is all about, from the inside, you need to Google “how an economy grows and why it doesn’t” by Irwin Schiff. Once you read that book (which is online as a free pdf) your illusions about economics will be dispelled.

Until then, all of this posturing, demonstrating and bleating will not help you. Understand economics BEFORE you try and solve an economic problem!

The vid makes a point very well, and yes, our children (I can speak with some authority here because I have one) will be saddled with massive debts through these cuts – they will have no free University, no pensions, crappy jobs with third world T&Cs and it looks like no NHS either. It’s bad enough contrasting my generation with the baby boomers and all the cash/freebies they’ve enjoyed, but God only knows what will be left for my child in 20 years.