Those of you who think the opportunity is here for the government to takeover the pre-schools and day care centres, and now even aged care is mentioned.

With both major parties seemingly rusted on to privatizing EVERYTHING.Just how are you going to acheive that.

Butcher you disappoint me, I have seen people take to you like a hungry dog after a sausage.
Well not every sausage some are clearly hard to give away.
You in one post infer I am biased in favor of high wages, then grab on my idea of putting such centers in schools.
My my we do not spend much time reading the threads do we?
Take this advice, it is both true and honest.
Thugs and mugs, is often my quote, with every bone in my body, and even against some in my movement, I am forever opposed to the lunatic extreme left.
And the no wiser right.
Workers mostly firmly are too.
High wages are often, very often, paid by bosses who are in no way union friendly, or even dealing with unionists, supply and demand mate.
If you support the dreadful exploitation of childcare workers, the wages are indeed amung the lowest an adult female can be paid.
I ask you what value you place on our children.
Talk all you like about it but those children needed government intervention and their parents need certainty.
I see some want only to talk money but a treasure more valuable is the children.
Consider this rechtub you have chanted about tenants wages endless complaints about ordinary Aussies would you complain about fixing the price of your products?

Let's hear it for The Free Market Economy.

Let the market place decide.

What's wrong with women staying home and looking after the kids?

Belly, there are some ideas of yours, with which I most strongly agree, but normally I see no point in repeating what has all ready been said. Here is one. ABC should never have been allowed to dominate its sector.

That is only a minor thing however. The domination of Woolworths, & Coles, of their sector is much more dangerous. Try to get your mob to do something about that, & i'll be right on your side.

Back to my favourite, that if government runs something, that gives real corruption opportunities to unions. This is the main reason for privatisation. Your unions sh4t in their own nest, just a little too much, with overmanning on a breathtaking scale. Our telephone system is a prime example.

My father had a little post office/hardware shop in a minor village. It had a double public phone booth in front. I happened to be home on hollidays, when the PMG, [as it was when a publis service department], decided to referbish them. They replaced one pane of glass, & painted the things.

The first day, 8 men & 4 utes turned up over an hour & a half. Each ute had a tradesman, & a driver. Now I realise it can be dangerous for one man to work alone, but this was redicules. It got worse.

The last to arive was the linesman, who had to disconnect the line, before others could [?] start. After 4 hours he left, but came back on the 4Th day.

The technician removed the phones, then he, & the painter watched the carpenter do the glass, & a couple of hinges.

On the second day the tech moved some lines in a conduit. After lunch they, & the 3 drivers watched the painter undercoat everything. They then all watched this dry.

On the third day the painter did his thing, carefully watched by the other 5.

Continued.

Continued

On the forth day, the tech refitted the phones, the painter did 5 minutes touch up, the repair man watched, with the drivers, & the lines man came back for 4 hours, to reconnect 8 wires.

Belly, you know this was how the PMG worked, when in government hands. It is how much of the public sector still works now. Can you really suggest we should have the public sector run anything, ever again?

Hasbeen the public service of old is not the public service of today. I can tell you from experience that budget cuts have trimmed most of the dead wood and fat from the wider APS. In some cases not only the fat, but some of the essential services.

The PS has become an economic rationalist paradise and the unions no longer have the same clout they did back in the days of the PMG.