Private owners ONLY want profit and LOTS of it and STUFF improving the privatised (sold of cheap!) asset.

Geez, you are naive FD!

freediver wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 7:11pm:


We have a once in a 100 year storm twice a year at present.

aquascoot wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 7:54pm:


I have worked both public and private and universally found the opposite to be true.

aquascoot wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 7:54pm:


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Untrue - Many government industries performed very well.

Public hospitals are mostly great and they along with Medicare keep the private system functioning. The Private medical system is highly subsidised by the government and Medicare as well as the government system taking on their excess load and functions that the private sector hospitals cannot.

Public schools are about the top standard with a select wealthy few able to attend the very top privates.

Privatisation in Telecommunications, banking, insurance, power etc have all been a disaster. The were all sold at a bargain basement price where the people (The owners never got value for money). Service standards dropped and cost escalated across the board. Privatisation has been an embarrassing corrupt failure in almost every case.

In NSW EOY results a public school beat all the rest...

I get public health and it is excellent without all the payouts.

Electricity may be a commodity - but that commodity in public hands does not need to satisfy shareholders and rapacious robber barons who 'bought' it.  Price has almost trebled under 'privatisation' with a lower standard of service.

Etc, etc, etc.

A public utility does not have to feed shareholders, duplication of 'ceos' and 'board members' and staff, duplication of administration services, and anything else you can imagine.  It's called efficiency - when a staff of 50 people can handle phone calls in one public organisation - it takes 500 to answer the phones in an endless array of 'private' providers.  Add a recorded answering system that takes you nowhere and clearly service suffers.  Ever tried to get some simple information from 'Services NSW' these days?

It takes one 'ceo' to handle a public utility, and some senior staff - it takes as many 'ceos' etc as there are 'private providers.

It's an absolute no-brainer - it is not more efficient or cost effective - and the facts are there to see... so you are left ONLY with the ideological statement that government should not be in what is a national security business on behalf of the people and not of the leeches in private.

Basically it's all lies ......

P.S.  Don't bother waking Telstra The Private... I've sand-bagged around their terminal in my footpath that runs water into my yard and floods it and dug a ditch and put in a pipe at my expense to the gutter - now don't wake the council in its modern quasi-business style - the drains over the road are still clogged and if I'm flooded again as a result, hell will follow.  I also loaded up my ride on mower today and went down and cut the long grass on that T intersection that makes it dangerous because you can't bloody well see.  Thanks, council - I tried the whipper snipper but angina set in - 72 yos shouldn't be doing your pharken work.

You can stick your private enterprise model up your grass.....

freediver wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 5:51pm:


I doubt they needed either of those in SA. They just needed some back up switches.

But nevertheless, they would do whatever they needed. Unlike the private sector, it's all about the service instead of about maximising the profit

freediver wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 8:26pm:



because they drink the same cool aid you do.

freediver wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 6:28pm:


You obviously have no idea what anyone means