You and Yours - 30/06/2009

Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. Should the Public sector share more the pain in this recession? The public sector has come in for a fair amount of stick as critics have suggest it’s being protected from the worst effects of the recession but what are the facts and figures here, and would big cuts in the public sector actually help the economy or the country? It costs the taxpayer an estimated £160 billion to run its bureaucracy and pay its employees wages and pensions; should we take an axe to its bureaucracy and use the savings to reduce debt and invest in our wealth creators?