{"id":731715,"date":"2010-05-23T22:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uk-government-yes-were-going-to-cut-spending-like-crazy-but-in-exchange-drivers-can-break-the-speed-limit-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:33:28","slug":"uk-government-yes-were-going-to-cut-spending-like-crazy-but-in-exchange-drivers-can-break-the-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/731715","title":{"rendered":"UK Government: Yes, We&#8217;re Going To Cut Spending Like Crazy, But In Exchange Drivers Can Break The Speed Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcbad327f8b9a173b9e0700-332-249\/nick-clegg.jpg?resize=332%2C249\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nick Clegg\" width=\"332\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The age of plenty is over,&#8221; said deputy PM Nick Clegg, as the new UK coalition government unveiled its first austerity budget.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/conservative\/7757567\/George-Osborne-to-unveil-6bn-of-spending-cuts-as-era-of-austerity-begins.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>, the government has announced its first &pound;6 billion in spending cuts, with various civil servants bearing the brunt.<\/p>\n<p>This will certainly have a short-term negative effect on the economy, though it&#8217;s seen as vital for the longterm health of the country.<\/p>\n<p>So how does the government plan placate the masses?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re going to slow down on the installation of uber-unpopular traffic cams that catch automatically catch people speeding. That&#8217;s one spending cut everyone can get behind, and the hope is that this move dulls the pain a little.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uk-government-yes-were-going-to-cut-spending-like-crazy-but-in-exchange-drivers-can-break-the-speed-limit-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/1pMvF03RZ10\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The age of plenty is over,&#8221; said deputy PM Nick Clegg, as the new UK coalition government unveiled its first austerity budget. According to The Telegraph, the government has announced its first &pound;6 billion in spending cuts, with various civil servants bearing the brunt. This will certainly have a short-term negative effect on the economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34lR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}