rhino wrote on Aug 7
th, 2019 at 12:54pm:
Bobby. wrote on Aug 7
th, 2019 at 12:47pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 7
th, 2019 at 12:44pm:
Bobby. wrote on Aug 7
th, 2019 at 12:38pm:
Greggy,
during the recent Federal election Govt. debt was
a forbidden topic - neither party nor Keating
have the slightest clue what to do.
Every promise they made was to use borrowed money.
You underestimate Mr Keating.
Keating hasn't said a word about
how to fix the debt problem.
Perhaps, but he has a rocket science IQ as regards the economy, the current and previous mob have been dolts in comparison.
The formula is simple - if we try to pay
it back the economy collapses and
prevents us from doing so.
We can only ever go into more
and more debt.
How the hell did we get into this situation?
All the politicians pretend it's not happening
but it's the elephant in the room.
Without borrowing we would have not
enough money to pay social security
and the gigantic army of public servants.
In Victoria 380,000 people got jobs
in the last year and 300,000
are public servants.
We borrow money to create fake jobs.
I agree that more needs to be done about our debt problem, Im not understanding your dismissal of public servants as "fake jobs". Surely the government needs to create employment, employing people directly in the public sector is an ideal way to create jobs. And please don't come out with any nonsense like "all public servants are lazy", most of the ones I know personally are under 6 to 12 month contract renewals and if they don't perform or their face doesn't fit they are out the door.