Letters - 29 April 2011
From the cuts to James Turrell
Time to face reality
It was brave of you to devote a whole page to Tom Jackson’s stern enjoinder ‘it is time to face reality’ (15 April). With a little more research on his part I’m sure Tom could have made his ‘reality’ a little more real. He might, for example, have put the UK’s current national debt and deficit in an historical and in an international context. He would have been startled and we would have been reassured at the numbers that popped up. Then again, he might have explained how cutting aggregate expenditure in an economy that is barely growing (and may even be shrinking) is the royal road to National Debt reduction.
Colin Rendall
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