Re: Feds have not spent money extracted from motorists.

["Trig Lycerides" <Trig.Lycerides@bigpond.com>]

unfortunately, for many years the federal public service has been decimated
by low pay, many attractive redundancies and a complete loss of corporate
memory.  Wages now are such that a person can survive for a year or two and
then they sensibly nick off.  privatisation is a great thing because it
diverts lots of public money into private pockets and commercial in
confidence shields it from public and Senate scrutiny.  Nobody understands
what it means to obey the law or the Constitution when it comes to the
expenditure of money,  And guess what - it will continue that way - the
banana republic full of corruption and stupidity is here to stay, at least
for the next twenty years.  the government gloats about its surplus, but
when you think of the amount that has been withheld from road funding, it is
clear that it has been illegally withheld.  Now that the secret is out, can
we have a bit of the savings for the Alice to Darwin Railway?  not on your
life.  Can we have a bit to reduce greenhouse gas emission by improving
public transport - not on your life.  can we have a bit to reopen the
Cootamundra - Tumut railway so the Visychipboard  factory will not
completely fuck up the roads in the south west - not on your life.  Can we
have a lot to pay off the IT outsourcing contractors who help the government
channel money into the private sector - yeah heaps!  Can we have some more
to pay off Kerry Packer and the mob over digital tv which nobody watches -
fucken oath - take several million why dont you.  But at the end of the day
it doesn't matter because nobody will remember




"Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Chris, you are kinder than yours truly.
>
> It is subtle indeed, and it also happens to pre-date
> the present conservative government.
>
> So, the motorists the extra taxpayers of this country
> are entitled to ask, why the AGD did not bring this up
> years ago.?
>
> ....Tell
>
>
>
> >"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I thought it was a little more subtle than that.  The Federal Transport
> > Ministers' obligation was to notify Parliament as to what portion of the
> > excise was applied/not applied to the national highway network (not just
> > roads).  Failing notification the full excise amount was then meant to
be
> > spent on the national highway network.
> >
> > The primary failure was not not spending the money on national highways
but
> > failing to notify Parliament.
> >
> > Of course that will be deemed irrelevant by motoring organisations,
Labor
> > (ironic they should also be complicit) and the media who all smell
blood, they
> > will demand that the second failure be rectified and the money be spent
on
> > highways.  They'll ignore rectifying the 1st failure as allocating the
excise
> > elsewhere (the Govts prerogative)  and correctly notifying Parliament
(the
> > Govts 1st obligation) doesn't suit their agenda.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > vol78tse6ut6ncu515fs807n5ck8apg61b@4ax.com">news:vol78tse6ut6ncu515fs807n5ck8apg61b@4ax.com...
> > > It had to happen, ...after all, this an election year.
> > >
> > > Any guesses that a "labor" section of the Federal
> > > Public Service helped to drop this one on the agenda.
> > > We now find, thanks to a slack-arse Federal Auditor
> > > General Department, that BILLIONS of dollars extracted
> > > from motorists under an ACT OF PARLIAMENT has not been
> > > allocated to roads.
> > >
> > > The extra TAXES on fuel at the pump were supposed to go
> > > to improving the roads, YES, I am aware that the
> > > TRUCKIES will benefit.
> > >
> > > Keep in mind, these extra taxes were for roads NOT for
> > > railways.!
> > >
> > > Heh heh, this latest "bombshell" as described by our
> > > dipshit media just happen to come up before the WA
> > > State election tomorrow.
> > >
> > > ....Tell
> >
>