THE UNREALITY OF THE STATE...

I see that the head of the Audit Commission, Steve Bundred, reckons that workers, including those in the NHS and education, would "tolerate" a pay freeze as they had "done well" over the last 10 years.

And in an outspoken tirade, he accused Labour and the Tories of hiding the true scale of required cuts and dismissed politicians' promises to protect health and education spending. Writing in The Observer, Mr Bundred said: "At a time when inflation is likely to be between 2% and 3%, a pain-free way of cutting public spending would be to freeze public sector pay or at least impose severe pay restraint. "This is especially true if real wages in the private sector are still falling."

Sorry but this is not good enough.

WHY should the State Sector employees be immunised from economic REALITY? There is nothing that is anymore special about those for the State and so the idea that that they may escape REAL wage CUTS is dangerously delusional. In fact it is the State sector that should be most cut back since it consumes wealth but does not create it. However all our political parties are too scared to take the axe to the bloated state sector and would rather push the burden onto those who actually have already taken real cuts and pay more taxes and enjoy less favourable pension provision.

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[Allan@Aberdeen]

Go to www.jobs.guardian.co.uk and you'll see that unreality reigns in publicsectorworld. Not only are the jobs in the public sector paying well above the average, but what exactly are these jobs. Read this example of a high-paying job which I have to fund - yet why?

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