Cabinet must stop pretending that all expenditure cuts are “efficiency gains” and recognize the dangerous line between trimming waste and choking the economy: when you abruptly pull income from thousands of low earning households without replacing it with productive, job creating investment, you don’t eliminate waste, you trigger contraction, suffocating small businesses and accelerating layoffs across communities already under strain; yes, wasteful spending, poorly targeted programmes, leakages, and politically convenient handouts, must be rooted out with urgency, but the solution is not blunt force cuts, it is disciplined reallocation, shift every dollar from low impact consumption into infrastructure, skills, and private sector expansion while maintaining a basic level of income support to keep demand alive, because an economy is not a switch you can turn off and on without consequence, and if you stall the engine now, the cost of restarting it will far exceed whatever short term savings you claim today.
Gordon Laughlin
Westmoorings
