03-25-2017, 04:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2017, 10:19 AM by thorn bird.)
Of politics and Piss ants.
A Saturday ramble
Perhaps my musings may be construed as simplistic, but it occurs to me that we “The People”, as we are so often euphemistically described by the establishment, are so very badly done by. By the very cadre of people we allegedly select and entrust with efficiently managing our country, with probity and in our interests.
It would appear that far from serving our interests, the country is run like an out of control “Game of Thrones”, without the gore perhaps, but if what we hear of the Cant’berra Novotel are true, with all of the sex drugs and rock and roll.
To me our ruling elite are taking the Mickey Bliss i.e. the piss out of us.
Far from serving the interests of the shareholders (citizens) of this giant 'corporation' we call 'our' country; the common good is subverted by self interest, self entitlement, self promotion and outright greed which pervades every facet of the management of our country.
Tune in to question time in parliament sometime. I always naively imagined that Parliament was a place where learned, sober, competent people presented our views for rational debate and decisions taken in our interests. Instead, we witness a self serving rabble sneering irrelevant claptrap at each other, in a desperate attempt to score points, rather than engage in serious discussion of the very serious issues that confront us : those which, that if not addressed 'today' will haunt not only our children, but their children: our grandchildren.
Behind these “Show Ponies” we elect as “Our Board of directors” sit a group of not elected people, who, supposedly do the work of running the place,; the so called Public servant Mandarins.
Nobody could call their management performance exemplary. Their focus almost entirely on protecting the image of the 'show ponies' rather than the interests of those who’s taxes pay the inflated salaries and provide perks that the average taxpayer could only dream of. No wonder the people are disillusioned with our government.
No more so than within our own Industry, aviation, is this apparent. Particularly general aviation (non major airline) end has born the consequences of mind boggling mismanagement for too many years, the industry, worn out by the unending barrage of incompetence, from its regulator and cowed into acceptance of this by the constant bullying and harassment, as all trust and faith lost Is it any wonder that so many are just giving up?
In the real corporate world the people 'responsible (at those salaries) would have been shown the door long ago. Yet they remain: protected by the system, failure after failure ignored, excess after excess excused, the state of the GA industry is testament to their ineptitude and incompetence.
Managers are not supposed to kill those they manage, except of course as concentration camp commandants of course.
The show ponies must accept their part of the blame. Sure, they cannot be expected to be across all the issues of managing an industry as technically complicated and complex as aviation. Notwithstanding that, they choose to ignore the preponderance of evidence, provided by the industry itself, proving that all is not well. Yet they chose to ignore the industry in favour of the flawed advice provided by 'the bureaucrats' ; do they (the show ponies) ever consider or even bother with due diligence?
Consultation with other overseas regulatory authorities would have provided a yardstick to measure the performance of their authority. All the show ponies of whatever stripe allowed themselves to be captured by very slick snake oil salesmen bureaucrats, illustrating unpardonable laziness in the execution of their office.
The whole point of regulatory oversight is to manage safety. This our regulator has endeavored to do by suppressing the industry to such an extent that it has become almost completely nonviable. In the process they have squandered hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars and god knows how much of the industries as well as the tax dollars and livelihoods of so many affected by the decimation; all spent on a proven folly.
It is no 'safer' in Australia than anywhere else in the first world. It is no safer today than it was fifty years ago before GA entered it's golden age, yet the regulatory onslaught continues unabated. The show ponies seem quite content to go on letting them piss money away for no measurable result, hundreds of millions more for absolutely no result, yet prattle on about efficiencies, budget deficits and sponsoring innovation, where anything innovative is forced by the burden of over regulation to move offshore.
The answer is so simple.
It is as simple today as it was thirty years ago when it was decided to reform our system by adopting the system of the most successful aviation nation on the planet.
A decision skillfully subverted by the mandarins; but, the option is still there.
The question is; does the government want to continue with this folly and the complete collapse of the aviation industry, or grow a set, accept the complete and absolute cock up that the regulator is and move our system to FAR’s or align with New Zealand? In case the political elite hasn’t noticed, New Zealand has made all the hard decisions and is rapidly leaving Australia behind.
A few million dollars and a couple of years and an industry unshackled, allowed to shine, or another thirty years of purgatory, with hundreds of millions squandered for no result.
That is the simple choice.
Choc frog Thorny. Easter BRB soon; bring your lampshade - it's a biggy.
A Saturday ramble
Perhaps my musings may be construed as simplistic, but it occurs to me that we “The People”, as we are so often euphemistically described by the establishment, are so very badly done by. By the very cadre of people we allegedly select and entrust with efficiently managing our country, with probity and in our interests.
It would appear that far from serving our interests, the country is run like an out of control “Game of Thrones”, without the gore perhaps, but if what we hear of the Cant’berra Novotel are true, with all of the sex drugs and rock and roll.
To me our ruling elite are taking the Mickey Bliss i.e. the piss out of us.
Far from serving the interests of the shareholders (citizens) of this giant 'corporation' we call 'our' country; the common good is subverted by self interest, self entitlement, self promotion and outright greed which pervades every facet of the management of our country.
Tune in to question time in parliament sometime. I always naively imagined that Parliament was a place where learned, sober, competent people presented our views for rational debate and decisions taken in our interests. Instead, we witness a self serving rabble sneering irrelevant claptrap at each other, in a desperate attempt to score points, rather than engage in serious discussion of the very serious issues that confront us : those which, that if not addressed 'today' will haunt not only our children, but their children: our grandchildren.
Behind these “Show Ponies” we elect as “Our Board of directors” sit a group of not elected people, who, supposedly do the work of running the place,; the so called Public servant Mandarins.
Nobody could call their management performance exemplary. Their focus almost entirely on protecting the image of the 'show ponies' rather than the interests of those who’s taxes pay the inflated salaries and provide perks that the average taxpayer could only dream of. No wonder the people are disillusioned with our government.
No more so than within our own Industry, aviation, is this apparent. Particularly general aviation (non major airline) end has born the consequences of mind boggling mismanagement for too many years, the industry, worn out by the unending barrage of incompetence, from its regulator and cowed into acceptance of this by the constant bullying and harassment, as all trust and faith lost Is it any wonder that so many are just giving up?
In the real corporate world the people 'responsible (at those salaries) would have been shown the door long ago. Yet they remain: protected by the system, failure after failure ignored, excess after excess excused, the state of the GA industry is testament to their ineptitude and incompetence.
Managers are not supposed to kill those they manage, except of course as concentration camp commandants of course.
The show ponies must accept their part of the blame. Sure, they cannot be expected to be across all the issues of managing an industry as technically complicated and complex as aviation. Notwithstanding that, they choose to ignore the preponderance of evidence, provided by the industry itself, proving that all is not well. Yet they chose to ignore the industry in favour of the flawed advice provided by 'the bureaucrats' ; do they (the show ponies) ever consider or even bother with due diligence?
Consultation with other overseas regulatory authorities would have provided a yardstick to measure the performance of their authority. All the show ponies of whatever stripe allowed themselves to be captured by very slick snake oil salesmen bureaucrats, illustrating unpardonable laziness in the execution of their office.
The whole point of regulatory oversight is to manage safety. This our regulator has endeavored to do by suppressing the industry to such an extent that it has become almost completely nonviable. In the process they have squandered hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars and god knows how much of the industries as well as the tax dollars and livelihoods of so many affected by the decimation; all spent on a proven folly.
It is no 'safer' in Australia than anywhere else in the first world. It is no safer today than it was fifty years ago before GA entered it's golden age, yet the regulatory onslaught continues unabated. The show ponies seem quite content to go on letting them piss money away for no measurable result, hundreds of millions more for absolutely no result, yet prattle on about efficiencies, budget deficits and sponsoring innovation, where anything innovative is forced by the burden of over regulation to move offshore.
The answer is so simple.
It is as simple today as it was thirty years ago when it was decided to reform our system by adopting the system of the most successful aviation nation on the planet.
A decision skillfully subverted by the mandarins; but, the option is still there.
The question is; does the government want to continue with this folly and the complete collapse of the aviation industry, or grow a set, accept the complete and absolute cock up that the regulator is and move our system to FAR’s or align with New Zealand? In case the political elite hasn’t noticed, New Zealand has made all the hard decisions and is rapidly leaving Australia behind.
A few million dollars and a couple of years and an industry unshackled, allowed to shine, or another thirty years of purgatory, with hundreds of millions squandered for no result.
That is the simple choice.
Choc frog Thorny. Easter BRB soon; bring your lampshade - it's a biggy.