THE ECONOMICS OF THE MAD HOUSE.

Calls to axe the ‘non-jobs'

So now we know it. Wigan Metro spends over £350,000 on "Diversity Officers", and another four people are employed to attempt to get EU funding for the borough. I presume this does not include office costs, heating and lighting etc.

Manchester gets by without any of these useless bureaucrats while Bolton has two.

At least we can be thankful that we do not have a "Climate Change Officer" like Warrington.

So what could we do with £350,000 if we did away with these non jobs?

Well we could build 3 council houses per year. This would employ building workers, brickies, joiners,plumbers,electricians etc to build the houses.
They in turn would need the materials with which to build the houses, bricks, plumbing materials, timber etc which would give other people a job.
These people would spend their earnings in local shops and so the circulation of jobs and money would go on.
That is why putting money into primary producers (eg housebuilders etc) brings 3 or 4 times as much money per pound than government jobs which live off the backs of the former and put back into the economy only what they have taken from it.

So in the last ten years we could have housed thirty families and given employment to perhaps as many tradesmen. These households would now be paying rent and council taxes to the Metro which would help them financially.

This is all basic economics, productive workers as well as producing assets provide employment for four others down the line as well as having an end product.
That is not to say that all workers must be producers. We need people to teach the kids, heal the sick, empty the bins etc and even a FEW to keep the books but the latter pen pushers should be kept to the bare minimum.

The reason the buraucracy has been allowed to swell is that those in control are not spending their own money. Also they are themselves bureaucrats and do not see they are in effect living off the backs of the productive members of society, and they do not understand economics.

Who created these posts which other councils manage without? Was it the overpaid Chief Excecutive who is on £70,000 more than the Prime Minister?. BTW who fixed her salary? Or was it agreed by our so called representitives, the councillors who are supposed to have our interests at heart?.
How has this come to light? Because of a FOI request. How many other needless extravagances will be uncovered by more digging?

This waste is a heavy cost on society. Those responsible should be sacked for incompetence.
Then perhaps we could preserve the services we value while at the same time cutting council taxes and business rates. If the latter were reduced they would not need people to promote our town. Businesses would flock to us and our prosperity and the future of our children would be assured.

So in a nutshell. Do away with these non jobs and put the money saved into productive investment in our town.

ELLIOT MUST GO, together with his parasitic mates. Perhaps he could get a useful job. If he does I will buy him a shovel