04-19-2024, 03:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2024, 03:26 PM by Sandy Reith.)
Surely it must be obvious by now that the real problem is having some arms of government outside of direct Ministerial and Departmental control.
The creation of such bodies as ASA and CASA with the notion of them being ‘Government Business Enterprises (GBE)’ is laughable at one extreme and disastrous in practice. The term GBE has gone out of fashion but the concept is well embedded.
The very idea of a government monopoly ‘service’ provider being akin to a business, let alone an enterprising one, is totally fanciful and a blatant expression of the Can’tberra arrogance.
Monopolies elsewhere are highly undesirable, if not unlawful, but here we have a wrong system with government protection.
The creation of such bodies as ASA and CASA with the notion of them being ‘Government Business Enterprises (GBE)’ is laughable at one extreme and disastrous in practice. The term GBE has gone out of fashion but the concept is well embedded.
The very idea of a government monopoly ‘service’ provider being akin to a business, let alone an enterprising one, is totally fanciful and a blatant expression of the Can’tberra arrogance.
Monopolies elsewhere are highly undesirable, if not unlawful, but here we have a wrong system with government protection.