Thursday 25 February 2016

Money, Money, Money

You would have thought after the austerity fad that has swept the globe since the 2008 crash, we would finally have a handle on debt but a look at the list of countries debts shows that nations owe over £60 Trillion to each other and just one nation owes almost a third of that.
The United States is the worst offender and in the hole to the tune of $18,772,300,000,000 ($18.7 Trillion) or 103% of what the country brings in.
Second worst off is France which owes £5.7 Trillion then Germany £5.5 Trillion, Japan £2.8T, Italy £2.6T, Netherlands £2.5T, Spain £2.3T, China £1.6T, Switzerland £1.6T and the UK £1.5T.
Such is the state of the global finances that there are only 5 countries who have been able to avoid this economic insanity of debt and live within their means.
Macoa, the British Virgin Islands, Bruniei, Lichenstein and Palau are the only countries that bring in more than they spend.
With such huge levels of debt i can't see how countries are ever going to get out of the red and into the black, Iceland's debt is equal to £282,930 per head of population while each person in The Netherlands would need to find £226,503 each to clear the nations debts which is a lot of daffodils and tulips so i can't see these debts being cleared anytime soon.     
As for the UK, we each would need to find £23,240 each and that is after the Conservative Government have hacked and slashed whatever is hackable and slashable and still we need to find another £1.5 Trillion in savings so i don't know what the answer is but surely at some point nations will begin thinking how we do things at the moment isn't working and look for other ways of doing things.

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Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

So you advise keep doing what we are doing and rack up even more debt?

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

But after 8 years of austerity, the debt is growing so more of the same and pile on even more debt which is what you say is the consequences of doing the opposite? Same result isn't it, more debt.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

In my simplistic view you can only reduce the debt by spending less or bringing more in. We have had 8 years of spending less but the deficit has not gone down, it has gone up. Everything 'easy' that could be cut has been cut and now they are down to the tough ones such as NHS spending and cuts to the police hence all the strikes and anger.
With nothing left to cut we have to ask why is it that we are still so massively in debt and if after almost a decade of cuts things are getting worse, why are we continuing down this same path when it so obviously isn't doing what it is supposed to?

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

Austerity as in reduce the amount the government spends to save money so reduce government departments, reduce welfare payments, pay freezes for nurses, police, fire service, close down services etc etc

Falling on a bruise said...

That is my point, after 8 years and savage cuts and services closing and pay freezes and redundancies and welfare reductions we are owing more so how can that be?

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

No idea what you are saying but if what you looked at said the UK hasn't suffered massive austerity cuts then you need to find something else to look at because hats all there has been since 2008.

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