05-09-2017, 08:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2017, 08:43 AM by thorn bird.)
Good grief Gobbles, 20 weeks out of 52. I know fly in fly out workers who spend more time away from home.
Do they get these "entitlements"? What about our armed service personnel? they can spend half the year away from their loved ones, sometimes in pretty shitty places, are they so precious they receive such mollycoddling? hell we can't even look after them properly when they come home mentally or physically broken. Defending US!
Politicians are elected to do a job, why should they be treated any differently to anyone else?
Public self servants are now paid more than those in free enterprise, yet still receive obscene entitlements way beyond what an average punter could dream of.
When one ponders on some of the debacles in government enterprise administered by the bureaucrats, CAsA being a prime example, its no wonder the shareholders (taxpayers) of this country are a Tad peeved. Self serving parasites the lot of them.
There was an interesting discussion on radio 2GB last week, I only caught a snippet of it but it concerned schools and funding. A Parent of a northern suburbs school was complaining because parents had worked hard to raise funds to build a shade structure at the school, they had no school hall. They got three competitive quotes, raised more than half the money, the school was to kick in the rest, all good until the bureaucrats from the state government stepped in, insisting they had to manage things. The "price" suddenly more than doubled, fees to manage the project, new quotes required, no doubt from "approved" contractors, by approved I mean the brown paper bag variety.
A contractor called in and explained most of his work was from schools, maintenance work etc, but wherever the bureaucrats got involved costs would more than double from the original quote. Efficiency???...Yeah right!
Look at public health, more bureaucrats wandering about the hospitals than patients, front line staff like nurses overworked and underpaid, we really are a dumb lot in Australia.
Our education system? billions being thrown at it and we still can't get anywhere near the same results as Kazakhstan! Whats the famous quote from Einstein about insanity?
Then on ponders CAsA. Half a BILLION $$$ so far and almost thirty years to half finished a so called regulatory reform, regulatory reform that is so unique, so out of touch with the rest of the world and so unworkable its brought an industry to its knees. These reforms were supposed to improve safety, yet have miserably failed. The Kiwi's reformed their aviation regulations which are now recognised as some of the best in the world, adopted by a lot of countries in our region. A few million dollars, a couple of years, using the reg's from the most successful aviation country on the planet as a template, and their aviation industry is booming, and guess what? its just as safe as ours if not safer, how dumb are we?
Okay, okay...rant over, I'll get off the soap box. but I can't help but look over the ditch with envy at NZ.
Once we used to make disparaging remarks about the Kiwi's, not anymore, they are giving us salutary lessons in what good governance actually means and what can be achieved when national interest is put before self interest. Everyone prospers.
Do they get these "entitlements"? What about our armed service personnel? they can spend half the year away from their loved ones, sometimes in pretty shitty places, are they so precious they receive such mollycoddling? hell we can't even look after them properly when they come home mentally or physically broken. Defending US!
Politicians are elected to do a job, why should they be treated any differently to anyone else?
Public self servants are now paid more than those in free enterprise, yet still receive obscene entitlements way beyond what an average punter could dream of.
When one ponders on some of the debacles in government enterprise administered by the bureaucrats, CAsA being a prime example, its no wonder the shareholders (taxpayers) of this country are a Tad peeved. Self serving parasites the lot of them.
There was an interesting discussion on radio 2GB last week, I only caught a snippet of it but it concerned schools and funding. A Parent of a northern suburbs school was complaining because parents had worked hard to raise funds to build a shade structure at the school, they had no school hall. They got three competitive quotes, raised more than half the money, the school was to kick in the rest, all good until the bureaucrats from the state government stepped in, insisting they had to manage things. The "price" suddenly more than doubled, fees to manage the project, new quotes required, no doubt from "approved" contractors, by approved I mean the brown paper bag variety.
A contractor called in and explained most of his work was from schools, maintenance work etc, but wherever the bureaucrats got involved costs would more than double from the original quote. Efficiency???...Yeah right!
Look at public health, more bureaucrats wandering about the hospitals than patients, front line staff like nurses overworked and underpaid, we really are a dumb lot in Australia.
Our education system? billions being thrown at it and we still can't get anywhere near the same results as Kazakhstan! Whats the famous quote from Einstein about insanity?
Then on ponders CAsA. Half a BILLION $$$ so far and almost thirty years to half finished a so called regulatory reform, regulatory reform that is so unique, so out of touch with the rest of the world and so unworkable its brought an industry to its knees. These reforms were supposed to improve safety, yet have miserably failed. The Kiwi's reformed their aviation regulations which are now recognised as some of the best in the world, adopted by a lot of countries in our region. A few million dollars, a couple of years, using the reg's from the most successful aviation country on the planet as a template, and their aviation industry is booming, and guess what? its just as safe as ours if not safer, how dumb are we?
Okay, okay...rant over, I'll get off the soap box. but I can't help but look over the ditch with envy at NZ.
Once we used to make disparaging remarks about the Kiwi's, not anymore, they are giving us salutary lessons in what good governance actually means and what can be achieved when national interest is put before self interest. Everyone prospers.