Gnads wrote on Oct 19
th, 2021 at 9:21am:
Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 18
th, 2021 at 5:00pm:
Nope. You can mismanage but there is is lot of nonsense talked.
Borrowings for good infrastructure take generates to pay for themseived. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.
So you'd support the CCPs Belt & Road scheme/scam here?
Many here think it is perfectly all right to sell off our national or state sovereignty to gain some 'infrastructure' that governments should already have had well in hand long before the 'need' arose for any 'private consortium' to be involved - local or international.
When Big Tony said he was going to be an 'Infrastructure PM' - I nearly fell off my chair laughing... if ever there was a retrograde step in development of genuine long-term infrastructure for this country, it was installing the conservative government of any kind with its/their privatisation silliness - all designed for pure profit to some and nothing else. Tony was THE epitome of that silliness, and had no thought of genuinely developing anything of true value to the nation and people.
In NSW - St Gladys was one of the worst - she had to go for quietly selling off what was left in public hands during the panicdemic..... all the rest is just window dressing and stage play for public consumption, with ICAC singularly failing to ask the killer questions.... imagine the utter stupidity of selling off the remaining stake in the 'private roads' for a single payment, which we all know will vanish into the maw of 'consolidated revenue' and be sucked away into fripperies and silliness to suit party ideologues and mates - and leave the state with no source of income other than robbing the people again.
Years ago I told yez of a work creation program in NYC (The Big Apple), in which over 90% of the funds were absorbed without result, in 'management costs'.... same here - give a government $10Bn and $9Bn will go to achieving nothing but a few larger public service empires and higher salaries for chosen ones etc... like Vic's comment on submarines - the upside down pyramid principle.
Wait until they sell off the hospitals...
(vision of lines of wheelchairs and stretchers parked outside the doors filled with dead and dying people waiting for their family to find funding ... doctors and nurses will have private entrances so the poor will not touch their robes as they glide past to their Nirvana inside, and the windows on the entrance side will be painted over to avoid unseemly sights outside ... daily a band of black-robed brethren come along with a garbage truck and remove the dead..... bring out your dead.. oh, sorry - they're already outside... an ambulance appears and tips one supplicant off a stretcher.. sorry mate, we're running a bit short.. you'll be right on the grass)
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They are all party hacks - and that includes Labor and 'those others' as well.