MARTIN Webb (June 24) believes government spending creates wealth but the truth is that government spending only creates debts. He has copied the old views of Margaret Thatcher that Britain could have a paper economy and that nobody need get their hands dirty making things.
Every country must pay its way in the world. Insurance and banking are not enough to balance the trade figures – that requires some manufacturing output. Gordon Brown thought investing in public services would create wealth but instead he almost bankrupted the country.
Public sector workers such as the police do a wonderful and important job. But we cannot all work as policemen, someone had to create the wealth and that involves British manufacturing producing tangible things that we can use in our homes and drive on our roads.
STEVE HALDEN Beaufort Green Swindon
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