Yeah, but they're thinking long term.
If they cut waste first, it'd be so much harder to sell the line that they need to close hospitals, cut funding to libraries, schools and universities, and dismantle every remnant of the welfare state. If they do all the fundamental, ideological, changes first, then they can still cut the waste later, because cutting waste is something you can always sell politically.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 24 Apr 2011, 15:42, Reply)