[Kharon]

This could, from an entertainment perspective get interesting.  

I wonder what the public reaction will be to the well rehearsed non response and the sod all action taken.  You see the public have never come face to face with this situation.

First we have the righteous outcry – the mess identified, public pressure leading to the Senate becoming involved and ‘an inquiry’.

Evidence taken, clever questions asked, department heads making careful non-answers or; taking a question on notice and providing meaningless answers right on the deadline.

More sessions with the Senators in full flight; knocking down castles, tilting at windmills and generally looking like they are going to get something done; for the betterment of the nation and it’s peoples.

Then the damning recommendations will be published; scathing speeches and ‘master plans’ proposed.

All jolly good stuff – until the general public realise (those who could stay focussed) that not only is nothing going to get done; there is no intention of doing anything – apart from the minimum amount of window dressing to make it appear that something, in time, will be done.

Meanwhile, the highly paid members of the various departments will shelve the plans and bury the proposed plans in committee and reports – until such time as the public have died of tedium; forgotten or moved on.

There may be members of the press smart enough to follow the Senate inquiry into matters aeronautical; that saga provides a proof positive blueprint for where this is all heading.   A few dead fish, a dying industry, a few properties sold off cheaply for the sake of the kids health just don’t signify.  In ten years the land will have been sold off to build another essential shopping mall and future high rise slum tenements.

I shall watch as the familiar pattern emerges from the smoke and dust.  Democracy; ain’t it great…

Toot - toot.