Red alert over State
QUEENSLAND’S Public Service sector now costs our State (2018-2019) $23.8 billion every year.
Up by 4.2 per cent from the previous year.
The public service sector is growing faster than our population growth.
Even if you are a public servant of any description, you must realise by now that with our Labor Government attacking industries that produce revenue, we cannot sustain this any longer.
Ordinary workers in bread and butter trades and industries can only dream about some of the salaries that have just been given a massive increase by Jackie Trad.
With the Queensland Government wiping the State north of Gympie (because they can govern without the rest of the state due to population of the southeast corner), bread and butter workers should be revolting. With intense blows to mining, farming and the tourist industry our State will not even be able to pay for a cuppa tea and a ginger nut biscuit if this madness continues.
We have shark nets removed so sharks have free rein, we have unsubstantiated and emotive environmental laws that will affect our sugar and dairy/beef industries, as well as our vegetable producers.
We have mining activists controlling the Government and animal activists who have never been held to account for disturbing business.
At some stage, those of us who have to create the revenue through our hard work and taxes are going to have to realise that we control the vote, hence we control who polishes all of those leather seats in parliament.
Surely even now, with farmer suicide rates, the drought, the freedom that bats, sharks and crocs have in our State indicate that the Government is not governing for those of us who are creating the revenue.
We need our nurses, doctors, police, firemen etc, this is not the problem. With our bankruptcy rate, now the highest in the country, (CCIQ report Aug 2019), someone, somewhere with some brains and gumption must realise that something somehow must change.
To administer the massive Green laws the total socialistic attitude to business, we are floundering in the dust.
Bread and butter workers of Queensland are sick and tired of not getting a fair go. Politics has lost the clear boundary, it is difficult for an ordinary person to accept that a politician can be paid to attend parliament and actually vote against something that will protect or benefit the people who voted for them in the first place.
If I hear about the “Resilience of Queenslanders”, once more from a politician who can see his/her entire electorate from a window, then I will be convinced we have nothing but more of the same here.
Unions are failing to impact on Labor and the Greens, and the Liberals will just allow the so-called market to work it all out. Well how is that going so far? Because if you are doing well, then you are retired, rich and not here.
DEBRA GIBSON,
Pinnacles.