@gleee58 wrote:
@tezza2844 wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
@am*3 wrote:
Take his latest pledge - he is going to create 150,000 new jobs. 150,000..
Yes, I saw that this morning and couldn't find any info on how/where he was going to create that many new jobs in NSW
$550m to fast track new highway down this way (conditions attached) .... $251m for the nearest hospital to me....
From his poles and wires deal. He's going to build infrastructure in stages. As interest accrues he will move on to the next project.
Don't you mean that he is going to sell-off high income generating establishments so as to build expensive no income generating projects that have a very high maintenance costs. Seems to defy all logic, it only generates a false economy.
it will issue a 99-year lease on 50.4 per cent of its interest in electricity distributors Ausgrid and Endeavour and 100 per cent of the high-voltage transmission business, Transgrid.
Essential Energy, which operates poles and wires in rural NSW, will remain in full public ownership. So it also appears that the tail (National Party) is wagging the dog(Liberal Party)
Or the Chinese buyers only want to buy the pofitable poles, leaving the gov to own the more costly rural ones to maintain. It's very short term gain to sell off such assets. They generate profit for govt each year and once sold the money stops. So why?
Well this is where Labors Luke Foley is pressing the advantage, and may well have it. Mike Baird has been privatisation -happy since he took over from O'Farrell, and a lot of people are very unhappy about his rampant sell-off. The first thing he sold off was the public housing at Millers Point.
The gap between Baird and Foley isn't all that big and Foley comes across as a very articulate and sincere bloke. But he also has to live down the fact that Labor was happy to sell off mining licences left right and centre which are now threatening the fertile agricultural lands north and south of Sydney,
For me, I like Mike Baird, he comes across as a nice and decent man,and we certainly need the infrastructure he's promising, but I'm inclined to vote for whoever takes the mining and the sell-off of public assets concerns of the people seriously.
I feel, if previous successive governments hadn't been so ready to open us to free trade and low import tariffs, and enable the sale of public and private property, we would be able to finance our infrastructure through our own state and federal revenue. Like we used to, 30 years or more ago.
We'll never ever get that back.
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