Thursday, November 15, 2007

Differences...........

........between how the country runs and how the country is run are vast.

A vast majority of the great unwashed get up, go to work, earn a crust, spend most of it on stuff to keep themselves alive so they can do it again tomorrow and then do just that - do it again tomorrow. There are also the minorities who get up , don't go to work because we give them money to keep themselves alive and spend the day marching on Wellygogs. and generally making a nuisance of themselves. I mean how embarrassing from a national image point of view was all that? As an aside my daughter is a dentist in Wellington and there was a lot of work going on offer on the news last night. On second thoughts they (I mean I as I would be paying for it) couldn't afford her. That is how the country sort of gets by on a daily basis.

Then we have how the country is run. That is the nonsense that goes on in the Beehive and surrounding cess pools. We have daily exposure to the sewer of public debate that is Parliament but we got an insight yesterday into the civil service. It bears no relationship to life in the real world at all. There has been an enquiry as to the debacle that was the sacking of Madeleine Setchell. The enquiry was conducted by Mandarin Prebble (as opposed to his brother Mad Dog). A precis of his report into himself and his two IC (I think) was given in the Herald this morning. I didn't understand a word of it - and this was the 'shortened for the stupid' version. I think the upshot of it was that he fined himself $2500 and stopped his mates performance bonus of $28,000. Prebble earns north of $400,000 pa and his mate $320,000. He decided that neither of them needs to lose his job - well he would, wouldn't he. This means the boss will have to make do with an eight foot Xmas tree as opposed to the nine foot number and deputy will have to forgo the chocolate macadamias at Yuletide.

What do we do to deserve this rubbish? We deserve it because we don't stop it.

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