12-28-2016, 08:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-28-2016, 10:39 AM by thorn bird.)
Over on UP a thread contemplating names for the new airport.
The one that caught my eye, and probably a good candidate for quote of the month.
"Viagra International Airport"
Because its been a long time coming!!
Since our "Public servants" have morphed themselves into "self servants", with salaries to match, one has to ponder just how inept our political masters are these days.
Australians are really being played for fools.
The same signatures pop up on various documents, such as leases the past twenty years or so.
These same individuals are being paid mind boggling salaries to manage the public purse, yet wherever we look in our aviation world we find displayed incredible ineptitude in negotiating skills to a point where one can only be convinced that somewhere in there there must be some sort of "soft" corruption going on, these are supposedly very clever people, nobody could be that dumb.
Dick Smith nailed it when he said "We should be looking around the world for the best, then copying them"
The Japanese did that after WW11 and look at them today. The Chinese are doing the same, only on a much grander scale.
Very smart people, how dumb are we?
Our so called public purse managers manipulate gormless politicians to hand over public assets to banks whose ethics hover on the razor blade edge of difference between "legal" and "Illegal", or development sharks with even worse "ethics" and that somehow abrogating regulation (Making Law) to supposedly private companies all of whom have the primary objective of bilking the public out of as much money as possible.
We could have had arguably the best regulatory suite in the world, joined the rest of the pacific nations and adopted NZ regulations all for free, and we would have got a safer flying environment than we now have, and a thriving industry, employing lots of people and paying lots of taxes.
Nope, our Murky Mandarins insisted we must go it alone. Net result?, has to be close to $400 million now and rising, thirty years and the end result the death of an innovative industry that used to employ thousands. Net loss to Australia? incalculable.
We could have studied the planets best in security the Israelis, just enough overt "security" to create public confidence and minimise inconvenience, while the "real" security stays hidden in the background, always alert.
Nope, better our system. Racially target white, Anglo Saxon people and promptly put them through a process of maximum completely illogical protocols to ensure they arrive at the aircraft door ready to tear someones head off. They call this "Air Rage". Incidentally all of this handed to private companies with the same primary objective as the airport bilking the public of Money.
I sat on a panel back in the very early seventies to discuss where a second airport Sydney desperately needed should be located. Now after forty six years, finally we are actually going to build build a second airport.
But wait!!...The same Murky Mandarin who so nobly gifted Mcbank a billion dollar a year monopoly, tax free, will no doubt be in there trying to convince gormless politicians that the taxpayer should fund it.
McBank only funds car parks and infrastructure that has nothing to do with aviation but incorporates maximum inconvenience with maximum avenues to bilk users. Their motto, maximise returns, minimise expenditure.These days we have shopping centres and car parks that have a convenient airport incorporated, Mascot should be renamed "Wilsons" car Park and Airport.
Now lets see, Badgeries will be a single runway, bit of a terminal thats about it, and its going to cost How Much?? and take How long to build?? and who's going to run it??
Now if I was do Nuttin Darren I'd be telling Murky to stop pissing in my pocket, book the next flight to "Wellcamp" observe just how a privately owned and run airport who know how to treat customers and acts as a responsible, ethical local business that gives back to the community some of what it takes out rather than syphoning it offshore to well known tax havens.
After he's done that, get down on his knees and beg the "Wagners" to come build and run Sydney's new airport. Mc bank would then lose their monopoly and have to compete. Wonder how far charges would drop at Sydney? Wonder how long before the Wagners would have to build a second runway?
Based on Wellcamp, Badgeries could be up and running in five years or so and quite a few billion wiped off the national debt with a few billion more added to the countries GDP.
Win win or loss loss whats it to be Darren?
The one that caught my eye, and probably a good candidate for quote of the month.
"Viagra International Airport"
Because its been a long time coming!!
Since our "Public servants" have morphed themselves into "self servants", with salaries to match, one has to ponder just how inept our political masters are these days.
Australians are really being played for fools.
The same signatures pop up on various documents, such as leases the past twenty years or so.
These same individuals are being paid mind boggling salaries to manage the public purse, yet wherever we look in our aviation world we find displayed incredible ineptitude in negotiating skills to a point where one can only be convinced that somewhere in there there must be some sort of "soft" corruption going on, these are supposedly very clever people, nobody could be that dumb.
Dick Smith nailed it when he said "We should be looking around the world for the best, then copying them"
The Japanese did that after WW11 and look at them today. The Chinese are doing the same, only on a much grander scale.
Very smart people, how dumb are we?
Our so called public purse managers manipulate gormless politicians to hand over public assets to banks whose ethics hover on the razor blade edge of difference between "legal" and "Illegal", or development sharks with even worse "ethics" and that somehow abrogating regulation (Making Law) to supposedly private companies all of whom have the primary objective of bilking the public out of as much money as possible.
We could have had arguably the best regulatory suite in the world, joined the rest of the pacific nations and adopted NZ regulations all for free, and we would have got a safer flying environment than we now have, and a thriving industry, employing lots of people and paying lots of taxes.
Nope, our Murky Mandarins insisted we must go it alone. Net result?, has to be close to $400 million now and rising, thirty years and the end result the death of an innovative industry that used to employ thousands. Net loss to Australia? incalculable.
We could have studied the planets best in security the Israelis, just enough overt "security" to create public confidence and minimise inconvenience, while the "real" security stays hidden in the background, always alert.
Nope, better our system. Racially target white, Anglo Saxon people and promptly put them through a process of maximum completely illogical protocols to ensure they arrive at the aircraft door ready to tear someones head off. They call this "Air Rage". Incidentally all of this handed to private companies with the same primary objective as the airport bilking the public of Money.
I sat on a panel back in the very early seventies to discuss where a second airport Sydney desperately needed should be located. Now after forty six years, finally we are actually going to build build a second airport.
But wait!!...The same Murky Mandarin who so nobly gifted Mcbank a billion dollar a year monopoly, tax free, will no doubt be in there trying to convince gormless politicians that the taxpayer should fund it.
McBank only funds car parks and infrastructure that has nothing to do with aviation but incorporates maximum inconvenience with maximum avenues to bilk users. Their motto, maximise returns, minimise expenditure.These days we have shopping centres and car parks that have a convenient airport incorporated, Mascot should be renamed "Wilsons" car Park and Airport.
Now lets see, Badgeries will be a single runway, bit of a terminal thats about it, and its going to cost How Much?? and take How long to build?? and who's going to run it??
Now if I was do Nuttin Darren I'd be telling Murky to stop pissing in my pocket, book the next flight to "Wellcamp" observe just how a privately owned and run airport who know how to treat customers and acts as a responsible, ethical local business that gives back to the community some of what it takes out rather than syphoning it offshore to well known tax havens.
After he's done that, get down on his knees and beg the "Wagners" to come build and run Sydney's new airport. Mc bank would then lose their monopoly and have to compete. Wonder how far charges would drop at Sydney? Wonder how long before the Wagners would have to build a second runway?
Based on Wellcamp, Badgeries could be up and running in five years or so and quite a few billion wiped off the national debt with a few billion more added to the countries GDP.
Win win or loss loss whats it to be Darren?