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Originally Posted by Larryp
The NBN is a worthwhile project, Mike, but so are many other things. The big problem with this country is we are over-governed. I remember reading in "The Financial Review'' back in 1985 that we have 41% of our workforce employed in government and para-government jobs, ie non-productive jobs, compared to the USA with 21%.This ratio is probably much worse now.
If we reduced our level of government, and hence the number of government employees, we could accomplish so much more.
We have both state and federal depts. of education and health, for instance-we should eliminate 1 level and that would save us a fortune!
That money could be spent on other things. |
Like all the (now unemployed) public servants...
What an amazingly myopic point of view, the above statement states that ALL public servants are non-productive. Have a look at the state of play in Qld, Campbell Newman has ripped the guts out of the public service. That's working out really well
More Alan Jones type rhetoric, i.e. opinionated utterly uninformed rubbish.
Cheers
Stuart
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