But when politicians do the same things….nothing happens.

Those clowns in Canberra talk about accountability…but apparently this applies to everyone but themselves.

2% of rooves with foil insulation in them are “live”. Kev’s next stimulus program can be rectifying the “faulty” work done in the last one!

However…they are doing an awful job of cleaning up this mess. To the extent that I believe they are making it much worse.

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But thousands of homes have been repaired but don’t dare ask why many needed repairing in the first place because you won’t like the answer -- they were damaged by the tenants!

I asked in February this year in Rudd’s $42 billion dollars: the mother of all blunders “have we fixed the management problems with public housing?”..well clearly the answer is no.

More wasted money, but it stills helps GDP growth.

Just answer the question

(I assume they all drink blood for breakfast)

Lindsay Tanner made some good points the other day. Sadly he is from the party that refuses to even look at nuclear power so there is another example where we will dig the stuff up (Uranium) but not try and value add by getting a nuclear power industry up an running. Not to mention the flow on benefits in areas of nuclear medicine for example.

Now would have been a good time for the government to kick start a new industry…but it seems it will not be happening. Although we do seem to have helped out Chinese makers of solar panels and pink bats.

Tanner made some good comments the other day about using the downturn to work on addressing some structural issues. He also suggested that we need to start thinking about what we’ll be selling the rest of the world in 10-15 years. At this rate, it’ll probably still be dirt.

There really seems to be no end in sight. The gov has said that their borrowing limit is $300b. It would surprise me if they sail past that. But I guess that’s chickenfeed when you look at the US. Frightening. I wonder how they’ll ever pay that off. I guess they won’t -- I reckon the dollar will be trashed before we get to that stage.

It is sad that a country with so much potential has got to this stage. I don’t solely blame the current Government though, I think the previous one had ample time (and resources!) to plan a better future for Australia. It just so happens that the current Government is left with a mess to clean up.

However…they are doing an awful job of cleaning up this mess. To the extent that I believe they are making it much worse.

And whilst I am sure everyone will survive this mess, the prosperity of future generations is definitely in question.

They also did choose to do it, so they defiantly can not complain especially when they are going to get that cushy pension and consultancy/directorship roles at the end of it!

Coping a bit of flack is good for them I think. Keeps them honest and hopefully no more governments go the way of NSW… It is for these reasons that I think we must never compromise or lower our standards of what is acceptable and need to keep striving for better to ensure that the very best people are in such important roles.

Currently I do not think that either side is fielding their best team in minister/shadow minister roles. Too much infighting, even in Labor, they are just better at hiding it as they are in Government and the Opposition is of more interest to the media for the time being.

But…they have a lot of perks. Ask the QLD Gov about those

Really, they do get a lot of perks. And the work they do is a lot different to most other types of work. It is like a continual game of keeping up appearances. Swan gets Treasury to do all his work. Each minister just gets their department to do all the hard work for them.

Their job is really as a spokesperson and an orator, a public speaker, representative, debator (especially in question time)…and sometimes a leader.

So whilst they do a lot of stuff that most people would cringe at, they also don’t do a lot of stuff that we are expected to do in typical jobs.

And still corruption is rife

Maybe my idea of getting rid of the lower house is a bid radical, but I still think we would be better to focus on quality rather than quantity when it comes to elected reps. I mean how many people do you need to open a sports oval?

Leigh was doing the right thing and I think it was actually a really good interview on her half. Swan could have done what Rudd does and just palm it off to Gillard or say he would look into it or something. But some of the things he said were just dumb.

I do have a soft spot for the politicians and do think they should get paid more. Some days it must be damn hard having to get up and face the music from Parliament/media/constituents day after day with everybody writing about you (eg us right now right through to the big TV and Newspapers) and analysing your every move. They also do a hell of a lot of travel each week. You would have to have some pretty thick skin to do that every single day. It is a pretty thankless job.

On the other hand, they are our elected officials and no body should expect anything but the best from them.

And his school funding is really getting a bit out of hand.

I read where some school in an affluent suburb for example had to squeeze in a new hall between the pool and the tennis courts!

They said in Question Time today that one school got a $250,000 grant to build a library…but it only had one enrolled student.

…I see about the rich kids school thing now, thanks. I should have read up on it.

Probably the only thing that improves Government is a revolution. They’re not easy to come by.

I agree the previous government was in the sign business as well, but I am tired of one side of politics simply defending themselves by saying the other guys did it before. No wonder the standard of government never seems to improve.