rancitas,I know public servants in the NSW Govt who are on $90,000.00 plus and openly admit that they do stuff all.Our NSW Govt just took all the GST and grew the bureauracy.Billions wasted on jobs for the boys.NSW is broke and is the only State going backwards economically.

It is about time you lot were made more accountable.You are the public privlidged who don't realise how well off you are.Having a degree should not entitle anyone to keep their noses in the public trough for a life time at the expense of honest hard workers.

You lot should hang your heads in shame.

Arjay,
Honest business, now that's an oxymoron, if ever I've heard one!

Honest small-business, however, is not...

I should know, my partners and myself ran one for 15 years.

I'm sure there's plenty more around too, don't tar them all with the one brush.

Arjay says: "I know public servants in the NSW Govt who are on $90,000.00 plus and openly admit that they do stuff all.Our NSW Govt just took all the GST and grew the bureauracy.Billions wasted on jobs for the boys."

Okay who are these public servants? Name them - shouldn't be too hard seeing as they "openly admit" it. You know that , if they exist, they aren't representative of the whole public service. That is an unfair and unreasonable slur on good people.

That is bit like saying because one soldier, "a public servant", is caught smoking dope all ADF personnel are potheads.

You claim that “jobs for the boys” are provided. Who provided the jobs for whom? It is in the public interest to name them.

Who are you referring to with the words "you lot"? That clearly includes Rancitas. Do you base all your opinions on this type of empty assumption? Do you wrench all your thinking to fit your narrow schema? Do you ever allow for the possibility that there are good people in the public service? Of course not Arjay that would be being reasonable.

Why am I expecting you Arjay to be reasonable when you unfairly present a supposed corrupt small-business person as ‘working class” and then try to give the impression that Rancitas had used that term, when it was, indeed, Arjay’s corruption of Rancitas’ words.

Are you trying to tell me that there aren't "jobs for the boys" in private industry? Contracts doled out to the old-boy network while honest contractors don't get a look in. And this bureaucracy you are talking of -if it were placed with a private bureaucracy, how are you going to criticise it without being sued, contract terminated or sacked?

What has all this got to do with Jones? Been listening to his rubbish so long you are taking on his often groundless commentary?

The ABC must be retained in Australia otherwise we will simply not have, compared to the commercial media, an unbiased and fair media that digs deep into the issues that concern us all.

Rancitas

You have just said everything I have been thinking about Arjay for a long time but could not be bothered posting. As a former public servant who never earnt any more than 40,000 P.A. and worked my proverbial off, your post has given me a much needed cathartic boost.

For similar reasons I rarely bother posting to any of Flint's articles - too predictable with his sour grapes rants. How he can be complaining about an ABC whose board is heavily loaded with the likes of Albrechtsen et al, people who never let a few facts get in the way of a whinge.......I guess words fail me.

Just keep up the entertaining posts Rancitas - they light the way in the gloom of extreme righteousness.

Just recently Janet Albrechsten wrote an article entitled"Our Addiction to Big Govt" in The Australian.New Zealand who has a rapidly growing public service has one public servant for every 57 people.Australia on the other hand has one public servant for every 17 people.We have three times the number of public servants per head of population compared to NZ.Now under a Labor Govt their PS ranks are growing expodentially.Is there a symtomatic disease echoed in left wing Labor philosophy whereby anyone with a Bachelor of Arts or a BS can suckle on the public nipple for the rest of their lives without having to make a decision that pertains to their survival for 45 years?

In the meanwhile,NSW burns without infrastructure or health services while the public servants make merry with the GST and spend time counting their superannuation.Try justifying that reality.

If we use our intelligence to help small business instead of crucifying them,then there will be a better future for all.