What other occupation offers such attractive salaries, generous pensions, unbelievable tax free perks without requiring any qualifications whether tertiary or trade based.
These same politicians rave on about the necessary qualifications required by others with the latest target being financial planners. They are concerned about financial planners loosing our money and how the financial planners should be held accountable with potential large fines, removal of ability to practice and jail terms
At the very same time these same politicians are themselves loosing billions of our money in projects like buildings for school or insulation for our homes. How accountable are they did any loose their life, job or get goaled from either of these debacles? Not likely after all they are smarter than the rest us they are politicians.
Should we not demand that all politicians after they have completed their formal education if any go though the following training program?
1 Spend the next 5 years in the workforce either as an employer or employee.
2 Spend the next four years serving as a City Councillor where we can examine their performance with regards to keeping their promises, getting their designated task completed on time, to specifications and with no budget blowouts.
3 Having met the qualifications for a City councillor they then spend two terms in a State government or equivalent where we can not only examine their performance based on the same criteria as got local council but also add refusing unnecessary trips both local and international, resisting developers donations to their election funds, or putting party solidarity above the interests of their constituents. NB A very famous politician ( Ted Mack) from North Sydney NSW was detested by many of his fellow politicians for practising just what I listed above.
4 After passing these tests a politician should be ready for our Federal Parliament and a possible Ministers position. Only then could they make the claim that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys but what a change from where we are now and attracting some parasites who only want to feed off the system and not contribute.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
