About 80% of council tax payers are in receipt of about 20% of the services, as Sheffield city council takes another step, in a long line of steps at stripping services offered to preserve public sector jobs to the greater detriment of public services as illustrated by the latest brain wave to cut the main black bins collection by 50% to save a mere £2.4 million and thus leaving Sheffield's residents with only one main collection every fortnight, whilst forcing recycling to a greater extent in the alternative blue bins collections for paper and bottles.

Whilst the firm managing collections in Sheffield made promises of leaflets informing residents. the reality is that many Sheffielders are only noticing that the bin collection days have changed and that black bins are no longer collected on a weekly basis when they find that their bin has been left untouched on collection day. Therefore to prevent missing the fortnightly collection, Sheffielders should visit the city councils website and input there postcodes to find out their new black and blue bin collection dates before they find themselves stuck with upto a months rubbish.

The trend towards diminishing services whilst council taxes continue to exponentially ramp up every year is ultimately for tax payers payers to demand opt outs from increasingly worthless Council services and contract directly with private service providers.

Sheffield's black bins collection 50% cut is just one example of what is taking place right across the public sector where funds are being channeled towards preservation of jobs to the detriment services, such as NHS GP surgeries increasingly found to be just be going through the motions of providing GP services, as illustrated by delayed referrals due to surgeries seeking to make arrangements with health service providers that benefit their consortia's in terms of commissions paid rather than what is in the best interests of the patients, which is resulting in a huge disparity in what the NHS says it delivers and what it actual deliveries when compared with real patient experience that will also ultimately lead calls for tax payer opt outs from a non existant health service that increasingly no longer exist to serve patients but rather to keep the 1.6 million employed on the NHS gravy train.

The bottom line is that the cancer of Greed has infected the NHS, as GP's utilise consortia's to first seek to under spend funds meant for patient care and referrals so that these under spends are then paid out as dividends to GP partners and then ultimately seeking to float the consortia's onto the stock market for huge windfall profits.

For more on how GP's are profiting from their patients see - NHS GP Doctors Putting Profit Before Patient Care, Channel 4 News Investigation

By Nadeem Walayat

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk

Nadeem Walayat has over 25 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of three ebook's - The Inflation Mega-Trend; The Interest Rate Mega-Trend and The Stocks Stealth Bull Market Update 2011 that can be downloaded for Free.

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