FIRST YOU HAVE TO BREAK THE PUBLIC UNIONS:

300,000 jobs in public sector face the axe (Jonathan Oliver, 5/22/10, Times of London)

AT least 300,000 Whitehall and other public sector workers may lose their jobs as the coalition government sets to work cutting the £156 billion budget deficit.

As George Osborne, the chancellor, prepares to unveil the first £6 billion of cuts tomorrow, the full scale of the job losses that will follow has begun to emerge.

The initial savings to be announced will target such items as civil servants’ perks, which include taxis, flights and hotel accommodation.

No one's going to mind balancing the budget on the backs of the bureaucrats.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 22, 2010 9:02 PM