OK, I should probably declare up front that I am
not a bolted on Labor voter. In fact I voted Howard into office all those years ago (couldn't see the back of Keating fast enough). I also stand proud to say I very emphatically voted Howard out! I'm not a Greens supported either... in fact I did one of those internet assessment thingies once and the end result seemed to be that the Greens were a bunch of jackbooted Nazis compared to me. But, hey, you don't want to believe the internet too much!
Mark _australia said...
If Liberal were doing the same thing I would also complain.
You better start complaining then mate!
Where does the money come from you say? All those wasted things I identified about 3 pages ago in this thread
Like millions of $$ to change the name and logo of a Govt utility
When I first left school, I got a job with the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commision. A couple of years later, the then
Liberal state government spent big squids changing the name to the Water Resources Commission. Nothing else changed. They both do it.
I still remember John Howard's razor gang. Remember them? They were going to slash government waste. Don't remember them saving us an awful lot. Did Little Johnnie leave his last job with zero waste? HAH!
Or millions for schools in Indonesia (note: as I said I am not against overseas disaster aid, just other stuff like the schools thing)
Or maybe the millions in overseas fact finding missions by pollies or spent on consultants to do a study and come up with the bleedin obvious
This list goes on and on......
Lots of stuff here. No sensible person would disagree with you about the pollies and their overseas junkets although both sides do it so caning just Labour is pretty one sided. Agree? For me, complaining about "millions for schools in Indonesia" is like complaining about the cost a squirt of sauce on a family sized pie. It's negligible! We'd have to withdraw this kind of money from
thousands of countries, not just one, so as to come up with 5 bill.
It is only because normal people are not privy to, or cannot understand the hundreds of pages of Govt budget docs, that they don't see the wastefulness of our Govt.
In a natural assets rich country like this we should have a billion bucks in a disaster fund all the time.
How the hell are they promising a 40bil broadband network but dont have 5bil for flood damages NOW?
No.. that's where you go wrong. Why should we have "a billion bucks"? That'd be a billion of
my bucks! It isn't the government's money, it's
my money.
We should have those billions, not the government unless the government can make a damned good case as to why they should have it instead. Neither side ever did.
For a decade, Little Johnny and the Libs hoarded my money for no apparent purpose. They didn't have any plan for it, they just took
my money from me so that Costello could stand up every budget and look smug and tell me how he'd done a wonderful job at taking
my money from me. No plan, just piling it up so Costello could roll around in it like Scrooge McDuck. The dick.
Now
if Costello had got up and said he was putting the money aside for a disaster relief fund
and then Labour blew it
and then we had a disaster and the money was gone
then I'd agree with you that Labor had really cocked it up big time and they should get everyone's #9 boot up the sphincter.
Instead, what happened was that Labor got power and had a big pile of money and no plan. Then things went to shyte worldwide and Labor gave me back a little of my money to get us over it. Then the disasters hit.
As far as I'm concerned, Labor did the right thing - that time.
