Trio sitting on their hands
THERE can be no excuse for the three Labor members to sit on their hands and remain silent and out of touch with the needs of our region.
We are seeing shops close, jobs lost, customers moving, terrible reports on how bad our city is, massive loss in housing prices, and people lost and left rudderless.
If people are talking to ordinary people like me about how they are worried, how they have no confidence in our city and its future, then why are the people who control our progress left to take their salaries, pensions and super and do nothing?
Facts that are hitting ordinary people right between the eyes are being shaded and covered up by those who will collect record salaries, record super and absent retirement.
My hairdresser has lost over 80 customers in 12 months through people leaving the city. The farrier who does my horse’s feet has been losing horses as owners move south.
One home removalist is so busy he has bought another truck, and yet the fix is so simple. “Build the dams, bring the water, bring the jobs, exports and tourists, and the prosperity will come.”
Townsville Enterprise, what are you doing? The opening statement on their web page made me choke on my Milo. (I’m OK now.)
They have done nothing to promote our area because if they had we would not be the second worst city to live in, we would not see record bankruptcies, we would not see mass migration south and we would not see our area struggle for water. If Townsville so-called Enterprise was enterprising, we would have solutions to the problem that ratepayers and taxpayers and residents of our city are asking about all of the time.
From one talkfest to another report, we still have no water, nothing for tourists to do and boring rhetoric about how resilient we all are here.
The private sector creates the opportunities and pays for the enterprise, and it is up to our governments to enable this progress.
Yet we have letters from tired MPS wanting to keep their jobs, but no change to crime, thirst, boredom and brownness. No matter what your political leaning is, you must by now be sick and tired of nothing.
If you are a public servant, you may get your pay rise, you may still get your super, but the money to give you those things is coming from borrowed time that has to be paid back by the next generation.
We have massive power costs, no water and no growth to help business.
DEBRA GIBSON, Pinnacles.