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"Mr President, as my colleague Charles Tannock recently said, I do not think it gives anyone any great pleasure to see the suffering going on in a number of eurozone countries. But be that as it may, it is quite clear that the governments of these countries, and the EU as well, should be looking to see how we can sort out public finances.
It is quite clear the first lesson to learn, as Mrs Thatcher used to say, is that you cannot spend more money than you have got coming in. So stop spending more money than you collect in taxes. Stop wasting taxpayers’ money.
But how can we send that message out when we ourselves here have just voted to go back to 12 sittings a year in Strasbourg? What message does that send to the citizens, at the same time as asking them to cut back on spending?
But the most important lesson we should learn is that what people call ‘public investment’ is quite often spending even more taxpayers’ money. What we should be doing as politicians and governments is getting out of the way and letting the entrepreneurs invest in growth and jobs, for they are the people who can produce the goods that we seek."@en1
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