Second, where cuts were to be felt, ministers promised it would be the "skivers" who suffered, not the "strivers".
A small number of people felt ministers were not going far enough.
"I felt Minister Farrakhan's speech was somewhat restrained," Mack said.
Intellectually we may feel that ministers should be coming up with much better cases than they have for the radical changes they are bringing about.
They also feel Christian ministers have misled people by providing incorrect interpretations of the Bible, especially the use of the Bible to justify slavery.
Union leaders felt that ministers had pre-empted negotiations with the announcement.
Media in India feel Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Independence Day speech was aimed at wooing voters ahead of the general elections due next year.
But even in the ruling UMP party, many feel the minister may have ignored for too long an unacceptable conflict of interest.
It may also reveal the frustration felt by ministers whose offer of advice on how to handle a siege was shunned by the Algerians.
Like his father, George reluctantly agreed to the dissolution and creation of peers, although he felt his ministers had taken advantage of his inexperience to browbeat him.
