Thursday, June 9, 2011

Call Me Names

Call me names for pointing this out - but just look at the medium term jobs story here.

And in particular look at the South Australian jobs story which has had the biggest fall and the slowest recovery of all the states that are included in the series.

2009 was a serious shocker and this year looks to be sad. The biggest concern are the dips and bumps - showing big volatility. Compare SA with the other states?

But no doubt Mr Rann and his cronies will be spinning this as hard and as fast as they can. You know what they will be saying. "The future has never looked so good", "We need a grand big new hospital", "The Adelaide oval is a key part of our development strategy", "The mining boom is just around the corner". And other blah and BS.

It's all lies.

What they are really saying is that things are turning to sh_t real quick - and they have no idea. So let’s try a big bang approach.

And the big bang involves spending your money to build new *things* - forget the knowledge based industries - forget the smart technology - the state is now near the bottom of the barrel and needs the biggest bang for its buck. Let’s just build lots of stuff.

The really scary thing is that they have had more than a decade to work it all out but they can't - the issues are far too complex for these state politicians to grasp.

And you can all get upset with them and threaten to change to the other party but it will make no difference - our state politicians are simply not capable of responding - or delivering - ever.

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