In the past Indy has claimed on this Forum that 95% of public servants should be sacked, he does love the number 95. I do to, I think aged welfare should be cut by 95% starting with Indy's free handout. How does that sound.

Dear Indyvidual,

Well it was all going swimmingly according to Porter.

"Social Services Minister Christian Porter has defended the system, saying it was working "incredibly well" and had attracted only a tiny number of complaints."

http://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/centrelink-debt-recovery-drive-has-caused-summer-from-hell-bill-shorten-says-20170108-gtns33.html

Remember Tudge was very gung ho about going after the wealfare recipients:

“We’ll find you, we’ll track you down and you will have to repay those debts and you may end up in prison,”

Both ministers and the PM were ecstatic with the efforts of the public servants in charge of this all the while people were telling them is was utterly unfair and even illegal.

Those public servants put the instructions of the ministers above ordinary Australians.

These are the ministers you have supported in the past. What say you now?

Yep when Campbell Newman sacked 20,000 of them it almost halved the time to get anything approved, with thousands less in boxes for things to sit in for weeks.

Of course Anny has replaced them & double, & now nothing gets done in Queensland. We used to have mostly blokes promoted to their first or second level of incompetence, but Anny has girls in all the top jobs, promoted to their 6th or more level of incompetence. Note the police commissioner running around hugging everyone, playing nursemaid/welfare worker rather than top cop.

Dear Hasbeen,

How's it going old cock? Good?

Firstly you claim: "Yep when Campbell Newman sacked 20,000 of them it almost halved the time to get anything approved, with thousands less in boxes for things to sit in for weeks."

Well that was what he promised but it was 14,000 in the end:

"His first term was marked by the sacking of 14,000 public servants, but Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says a re-elected Liberal-National Party government won’t cut any deeper into government services."
http://www.themandarin.com.au/17126-qld-election/

But all the cuts to services and the blow out in wait times saw him turfed out that election.

Really the only thing Newman did was privatise and shuffle government work over his mates.

"However, Springborg’s former offsider Davis – who quit parliament last year – told Guardian Australia that the government had cut waiting lists by “contracting out an enormous amount to the big private groups, many of whom are also LNP donors”.

Federal donor records show Ramsay Healthcare, which has increasingly taken public patients at its Greenslopes hospital in Brisbane and elsewhere, gave $300,000 to the federal Liberal party and $10,000 to the LNP between 2011 and 2013."
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/22/queensland-government-deceiving-voters-on-hospitals-says-former-assistant-health-minister

And chumps like you clapped him all the way.

"In the past Indy has claimed on this Forum that 95% of public servants should be sacked, he does love the number 95. I do to, I think aged welfare should be cut by 95% starting with Indy's free handout. How does that sound."

Perhaps 95% is too much, but some reduction in pensions is probably appropriate.

However it should only be undertaken if all pensions paid to politicians, ex public servants, bureaucrats & quango members & employees are cut to the same level at the same time. That would make a serious dent in the deficit.

I have a better idea. How about adjusting the pension according to Taxes paid. Those who had the least write-offs get the biggest pension !