This week Bob Hawke severely, and rightly in my view, criticised the proposed new Industrial Relations laws and labelled them part of the Americanisation of Australia - be it following the US into the Iraq war / fiasco and other things - presently underway. It's all happening slowly but think about it..... The Australian character and life style is slowly and surely disappearing. Before you know it will be gone! Today's article by Adele Horin in the SMH takes up the same theme. Reflect on it long and hard!
Only a gigantic bureaucracy could get away with spending of such dimensions - and the amazing waste involved in part of that ginormous spend. Think US Pentagon..... "From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades. Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars' worth of weapons components that will never be used. And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!) The elephant research, of course, represe...
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