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A new switched-on and cynical generation : Comments
By Peter West, published 12/12/2005Peter West looks at the younger generation and what forms their opinions and habits.
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you have said absolutely nothing and propelled the debate no where.
So to elevate debate once again I will offer rhyme.
Michaelk, do you plan to no avail,
In everything you attempt (and fail).
Maybe limericks would be more your line
You could write the ridiculous and asinine
However, I think you lack the skill
To contribute anything but - swill.
Veryself, thanks for the French lesson. I always detested the subject at school and am happy to defer to your obvious preoccupation with grandstanding.
As it is, I am quite happy with “Col Rouge”. It has a ring to it which would be lost if translated into “Gaelic obtuse”.
As for “Cause and effect, such a pain in the bum for ideologues.”
I recall, when I arrived in Australia, Medicare did not exist. It was the invented by Hawke and his band of “pain in the bum ideologues”.
Cause was
To burden Australian tax and medicare payers with an inefficient funding model
Enshrine union power into another area of public services ( Bob paying off his “masters”)
Effect was to
Destroy an efficient and productive private medical insurance system which delivered better value for money to service users.
Medicare, the insurance premiums would be higher but the service would be better and the premiums offset by savings in the medicare levies and the value of tax reduced by not paying into state sponsored hospitals and other medical services (which is the most inefficient of service models, totally lacking in accountability or “reward based on performance” with no incentive to improve, through better practice, eg the hallowed and sacrosanct Victorian “nurse to bed ratio”).
Want to bring up any other reasons for nationalisation of what is better left a private service?
The “nationalised best system” has produced a worse user outcomes than a private “user decides” system for one simple reason
Public bureaucracies have no direct or real accountability or need to perform. They are just the obsession of stupid and meddlesome socialists.