Do the sums

It always amazes me that people just don't do the sums.

There was an item in today's Guardian about the "broken families". Apparently there are 120,000 such families, we have to assume that this is some estimate and rounded figure. Now the government say that they are going to spend £100 million on them with a further £40 million coming form private sources. It sounds promising but how much is that per family?

It is abut £1000 per family, what can you do with that sort of money. There is an excellent charity ATD http://www.atd-uk.org/ that works with families in difficulty. One of the things that have found helps is to call on the families to help them get their kids to school every morning. Wouold this money cover someone going to call on 120,000 families every day.

Now considser the bonuses paid out the city slickers! I can't remember the exact figure but lets say £12 billion. That would give you roughly £10,000 per family. Now you could do some serios good for those "broken families".

If you do the sums you can see what is really going on. What do you expect from a Prime Minister who says there is one ket fact we have to remember the two things are.