Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Job Creation Scheme
The Ministry of Defence is set to sign a £4bn deal to build two aircraft carriers in the UK in a move expected to provide 10,000 jobs at its peak.
That's another of the annoying things about the MoD - it's just a job creation scheme, where the Government gets to spend billions of pounds creating jobs purely for jobs sake whilst trumpeting that they're increasing the size of the army, as if that's a good thing.
Why not just simplify things and divide the 4 billion pounds between all the workers? This newaircraft carrier will float about for a few decades before being decommisioned, after which the taxpayer is 4 billion pounds down with nothing to show for it.
That's another of the annoying things about the MoD - it's just a job creation scheme, where the Government gets to spend billions of pounds creating jobs purely for jobs sake whilst trumpeting that they're increasing the size of the army, as if that's a good thing.
Why not just simplify things and divide the 4 billion pounds between all the workers? This newaircraft carrier will float about for a few decades before being decommisioned, after which the taxpayer is 4 billion pounds down with nothing to show for it.
