double plus good wrote on Jan 31
st, 2016 at 3:39pm:
Stimulus payments to dead people and ex-pats. Pink batts installations causing house fires, deaths and millions of dollars rorted/wasted. Needlessly killing off the live cattle trade. Windmills, wave generators and de-salination plants all mothballed or grossly ineffective. Education rorts. Billions of dollars wasted with the reopening of the borders against all sane advice. Propping up dud companies like Ford and Holden. Talk about profligacy!
Quote:dead people and ex-pats
If you pay some of a certain collection of people (pensioners, say) you need to pay ALL pensioners. Treasury and Centerlink spent three months cleaning up the file of those on benefits. Some still died and got the check. This happens, people are hatched and dispatched
Quote:Pink batts installations causing house fires, deaths and millions of dollars rorted/wasted
Considering the HIP retrofitted over 1.2m homes, 20+ years work in normal times, the deaths and fires were actually less per 1000 retrofits. One installer went out and bought metal staples after being issued with plastic ones.
Live cattle trade—The graziers and their representative bodies should have known how their cattle were being treated. The current bunch of losers and jerkoffs insulted the Indo Pres and now our Indo allocation is 25% of what it used to be.
Salination plants, by State govts. We will need them when the next 10 years drought hits.
Borders—you probably think the Pacific Solution did anything. Now we have thousands of people in concentration camps. Wonderful, not.
Meantime, the nice person Libs are running out copper. Copper! More expensive to roll out, power and maintain yet does so much less!
Exaggeration that unfortunately, some of the public bought. Very clever marketing from libs.