Try getting a job you leeching bastards!

Posted on December 23, 2013 by KG

CANBERRA is broke. And it wants your money.
That’s the message from ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher, who is pleading for a Holden-style bailout package to rescue her ridiculous territory from the expense of public service redundancies.
…Like Washington DC under Barack Obama, Canberra enjoyed a massive public sector growth throughout Labor’s six years in power.
While the rest of the country watched a federal surplus vanish, Canberra grew ever fatter. As the Canberra Times reported just a few weeks ago: “Employment in the ACT’s public sector has exploded by 30 per cent in six years, far outstripping the other states and territories.
“The territory government wages bill has grown by $685 million in the same period, blowing out by $110 million each year.
“New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show the ACT’s public sector grew by more than three times the combined national average for state governments and local councils.”….’

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3 Responses to Try getting a job you leeching bastards!

  1. thor42 says:
    December 23, 2013 at 08:23

    Why the heck is there an “A.C.T.” anyway? What on earth does Aussie gain from having it? Nothing, I suspect.
    It should just be done away with and absorbed into the surrounding province.

  2. Mathew says:
    December 23, 2013 at 17:57

    It’s a good point Thor, it doesn’t make much sense to have our parliament out there in the sticks. But then this is politics so sense isn’t something you’ll get much of.

    Coming back to the financial trouble they’re in, here’s to hoping the Abbott government will boot them out and save us the money. Abbott should remember that he’ll never get the public servant vote, so don’t bother coddling them, find the savings, find them early and get the squealing over with. Most of us won’t remember any of this in 3 years time.