Friday, November 23, 2007
Father and mother Christmas- not a good look
Nothing undermines liberal party credibility more than its failure to use the last 11 years to do what its world view said it should do - make governance work more efficiently .
So what drives the growing bureaucracy and father and motherhood gift giving ; the sort of stuffup that drives those of us that used to work for the public service mad and often out --- in short its their Project and paper focus instead of people focus - Canberra is too far away to commit to people. Instead od people focus we get paper trail focus.sadly it refelcts badly on libs faith in trusting professionals to do jobs they once trained to do ( on the job in the security of organistaions that had a PS focus - not a paper focus like they do now!!!!!)
Today we had the local member open a shade shelter for $50000, the schoolteacher got the grant by "putting a lot of effort into writing a good submission " to quote his political mentors ( "5 minutes the author said" )
Next year the money will be for a water tank ---the year after, who knows. Each grant could have employed a person for a year . the libs are worse than labor cause they won't stop doing it -- they can't see they are fad driven in a way which their forefathers weren't - probably because the old libs cultivated advisers they could trust instead of the dumb cul de sac of commercial in confidence and commerce knows best.
The libs biggest mistake this year ( work choices) was in that vein knowing who to trust - employers need an the edge tis true, but taking away the average jo blow's( casual worker) opportunity to a say no to every casual offer is NOT FAIR .
Call up Canberra on the line - don't think so ! How far away can canberra be and still survive?
So what drives the growing bureaucracy and father and motherhood gift giving ; the sort of stuffup that drives those of us that used to work for the public service mad and often out --- in short its their Project and paper focus instead of people focus - Canberra is too far away to commit to people. Instead od people focus we get paper trail focus.sadly it refelcts badly on libs faith in trusting professionals to do jobs they once trained to do ( on the job in the security of organistaions that had a PS focus - not a paper focus like they do now!!!!!)
Today we had the local member open a shade shelter for $50000, the schoolteacher got the grant by "putting a lot of effort into writing a good submission " to quote his political mentors ( "5 minutes the author said" )
Next year the money will be for a water tank ---the year after, who knows. Each grant could have employed a person for a year . the libs are worse than labor cause they won't stop doing it -- they can't see they are fad driven in a way which their forefathers weren't - probably because the old libs cultivated advisers they could trust instead of the dumb cul de sac of commercial in confidence and commerce knows best.
The libs biggest mistake this year ( work choices) was in that vein knowing who to trust - employers need an the edge tis true, but taking away the average jo blow's( casual worker) opportunity to a say no to every casual offer is NOT FAIR .
Call up Canberra on the line - don't think so ! How far away can canberra be and still survive?
