Margaret Thatcher Quote

"Look, I think you're tackling public expenditure from the wrong end, if I might say so. Why don't you look at it as any housewife has to look at it? She has to look at her expenditure every week or every month, according to what she can afford to spend, and if she overspends one week or month, she's got to economise the next. Now governments really ought to look at it from the viewpoint of "What can we afford to spend?" They've already put up taxes, and yet the taxes they collect are not enough for the tremendous amount they're spending. They're having to borrow to a greater extent than ever before, and future generations will have to repay. Now, if anyone tells me that a Chancellor of the [Denis Healey] Exchequer can put up public expenditure in two years by -- and it's a tremendous figure -- twenty thousand million pounds, and he doesn't know where to get it down by about three thousand million pounds, then he ought never to have been in charge of the nation's finances ... never!"

by:	Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) British Prime Minister (1979–1990)
Source:	1976 Feb 5, TV Interview for Thames TV 'This Week' http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=102953
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Categories:	Equality, Communism, Socialism, Liberty, Dignity, Inequality, Character, British, Economics, Debt, Government
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This used to be known as common sense...  Socialism is a vampire.  -- E Archer, NYC

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