John Linton
.....at least in third grade.
I was relieved, and surprised to hear Iemma's tearful farewell on my car radio on Friday and was grateful to the WA electorate for sending that smug, dishonest and miscalculatingly cynical d***head Carpenter packing in the west.
It's taken the electorate in this State 14 years to be able to send a message to the Labor party that actually delivering education, health, police and transport services to the NSW population is something that's actually more important than swilling lunch at Sydney's three hat restaurants and divvying up the State's money between themselves and their union mates. Iemma has earned the title of the worst premier NSW has ever had and "Running Reba " has been labeled the worst Minister of Health anywhere in the World ever - including Eritrea and Chad.
For a summary of the last hours of Iemma's fiasco of "government"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT_8MSzWFt4
[Rated R for some bad language and offence to Labor voting people's ideas of themselves as intelligent members of the human race].
(and give the authors credit - they published it well before the resignation).
The oleaginous and dishonest Carpenter's cynical grab for another term by calling a very early election hoping the Olympics coupled with his huge majority would distract the WA voters and get him over the line (as a similar ploy in the NT had done a few weeks earlier) was severely and quite rightly punished by a rout in the west.
So Australia's boom and bust States have both removed their State governments within 24 hours of each other. One more sign of things becoming more difficult for Australians generally and, perhaps, a recognition by a few more Australians that they need to make more effort to understand the value and power of their democratic right to select who should be trusted to manage their money. No - probably not.
Which is a reminder that the bunch of ill educated, unknowledgeable, self aggrandizing, vapid, doctrinal dinosaurs posing as a 'government' in a country backwater of NSW (some mythical Shangri-La like temple of unreality called Canberra) are rapidly approaching 12 months "in power" and have done absolutely nothing in that time except bring investment in the telecommunications industry to a halt via their NBN (No Bandwith Now) "tender". Like the WA and NSW governments they are unfit for the responsibilities conferred on them by an ignorant and ill informed electorate and, like the WA and NSW State governments, they simply 'play' at being government because they have absolutely no idea of what's required to actually do the real tasks and planning required by governing.
The sheer inanity of Crazy Kevins pronouncements exclaimed through that vacuous moon face are breathtakingly stupid and totally pointless consisting of variations of three mantras:
1) Yes I know it's dreadful - but it's all Howards fault
2) Yes I know it's dreadful - but it's a world situation you know and we are powerless to do anything
3) Yes I know it's dreadful - I'll get a committee to look into it
What a total waste of space that man and his idiotically grinning wife are.
One most obvious sign of the lack of investment is that Exetel has had over 400 ADSL2 applications for connection to exchanges where Optus has ADSL2 equipment rejected due to "no ports available" over the past few weeks. Apart from massively disappointing the customers concerned this situation costs Exetel a lot of growth which in turn makes us more cautious and much less optimistic in our projections of the levels of growth in ADSL2 services over the remainder of FY2009.
So, governments do matter to even small companies such as Exetel (and to the citizens of NSW who have third world health services courtesy of 14 years of Labor ineptitude and venality and the lack of talent, and union influence) that results in a total f***wit like Reba Meagher being put in charge of our Hospitals and general medical services (a bit like appointing Paris Hilton head of the United Nations).
Never mind, it's a brilliantly sunny and warm day in Sydney (after drenching rain all day yesterday) and it's Father's Day so a good lunch in a lovely Sydney harbour side restaurant is only a couple of hours away.
(one of the benefits of having children)