Sergei Gotsmanov

GDP is not take home pay.

No!

Why should private sector workers have to work to 67 and public sector workers work until they are 60. That is unfair and unjustifiable.

You miss the point. The private sector is the wealth creator.

Good on you. It is people like you that drive the economy.

Detention for you Thorpey. I was always told that bad language was for people who had poor vocabulary.

They rip the tax payer off because they are funded by the public sector and are not accountable enough. I cannot dispute your figures but I did read somewhere that virtually no teachers have ever been sacked for incompetence. Anyway you should spend your long holidays writing a book on your experiences because it would be a good read. Being a Daily Mail reader it is just the sort of thing that would interest; middle class family man teacher locked up for hooliganism. I am actually serious.

Its about job security in the public sector compared to the private sector.

Lybia - I hope you don't teach Geography.

So we sack our soldiers then so you can retire at 60? These guys are acting in your national interest.

how many teachers was it that have been sacked for not being good at their jobs?

Please do not lecture us on maths when we are advocating balancing the Nation's books.

Job security is quite an incentive - how many teachers have been sacked in the last 15 years for not being up to the job? How many people in the private sector would have kept their job for being a convicted football hooligan? (I acknowledge the fact that it was an absurdely political conviction)

So you expect company's to not look for tax loopholes? They save money, and pay shareholders who spend money and keep the economy rolling.

Yes I thought the BBC would. Gordon Brown raided private sector final salary pensions to pay for his bloated public sector client base.

The private sector pays for the public sector. Make the private sector flourish and everything clicks into place. However distasteful you find entrepreneurs and bankers, they fund everything. The unions contributed as much as Maggie did to the dismantling of the manufacturing base of the country.

Wales I think.

You seem to have forgotton to mention how to finance this all. You seem to have a Greek mentality; one day the bail outs will stop.

With the marxist ideology of so many teachers I suspect that many kids will just leave school and go and live in a commune.

Dislikeable maybe but not stupid.

Yes but it is a bit like handing over a tenner and then getting £2.50 back. You cannot keep doing that.

You have to come up with a better argument than tax the private sector more. Tax and red tape are4 the biggest deterent for business and we have them both in abundance.

Well I can only judge you on your posts but I would suspect he is brighter than you even if he is a wicked tory toff!

Now I am not an economist Mikey but I think it works something like this; the private sector pays for the public sector. The Public Sector now employs over 40% of the workforce this is not sustainable so you have to get the private sector more efficient so you can get more people from the public into the 'productive sector'.