Cuts 'not' inevitable

Published 7 Sep 2010 09:30

SO West Dunbartonshire Council is consulting with its employees on how to make cuts to its spending budget.

Seems to me like the management must be rubbing their hands with glee over this.

Get the staff to make the decisions on what services should be cut then when they and the public start complaining about it, the management can say, well it was the employees’ idea.

Especially when it is cuts to staffing numbers and the terms and conditions which the employees and the unions have fought so hard for over the years.

Or if it is your local library or swimming pool that is closing.

All the public service unions are mounting a campaign against cuts to the vital services that the council provides, and every resident of West Dunbartonshire needs to get involved too because these cuts will affect every one of us.

But they are not inevitable, despite what our Con-Dem Government says.

If our politicians, local and national, had the guts to stand up to the bankers and the traders who caused the problem in the first place and make sure they pay the tax they had been dodging for years then we would not need any cuts at all.

I would urge every resident of West Dunbartonshire to write to or visit your councillor, MSP and MP because public services and the ordinary person should not be paying the price for the greed of big business and the super rich.

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