Josh Asker, of Southampton Youth Fight for Jobs, presented an anti-cuts petition at the meeting and said keeping services for the next year was "not enough".
"However, as Answers is a broad based community site we get responses from many types of people and sometimes the asker may feel that some answers are less helpful than others, " he said.
Privately held firms also account for about 54.5 percent of spending on plants and equipment, professors John Asker and Alexander Ljungqvist of NYU and Joan Farre-Mensa of Harvard estimated in a recent study comparing private- and public-company investments.