>terry@cclru.unsw.edu.au (Terry Flynn) wrote:
>
>> OK, thats 17 million verses 20.3million.
>
>Its $17.8M in unloaded costs, EXCLUDING inflation etc, compared to
>$16.8M fully loaded cost INCLUDING inflation.
>
>The $20.3M figure was INCLUDING a bunch of GOVERNMENT IMPOSED
>additional charges outside of the scope of the original contract, most
>of which were in fact the Government shuffling money from one pocket
>to another,
>
>> Were are the savings. They do not exist.
>
>Must be in the same place as your ability to understand a simple set
>of figures then.
>
>> What about the extra $500,00 pa for maintaince. Is this is a result of
>> using old equipment, or just private enterprise know how in ripping
>> off government?
>
>Actually, its was an extra ~$1M or so and none of it benefited WCR at
>all according to the AG report. It went from one Government pocket to
>another.
Then which railway benifited?
>> Still has cost the taxpayer more, not less, no matter how you try to
>> twist the facts.
>
>Yet another one of your strongly held beliefs. There is NO EVIDENCE
>in the AG's report that it "has cost the taxpayer more".
The total cost of the railway costs the taxpayer more now and savings
due to staff cuts were lost due to privatisation. The Auditors report
does show that there NO savings to privatisation. Therefore the
taxpayer is worse off.
>> So for every new private company, will the government
>> pay for saftey accreditation @1.2 million?
>
>If it changes the rules after agreement of charges, it may feel
>morally bound to.
Since when has morals have anything to do with buisness. Again you
evade the fact, privatisation will cost more, not less.
>> Will other private operators be given government interest
>> free loans?
>
>Beats me, ask the Government, but presumably if the Government creates
>another problem such as the one the loan was needed to fix, they may
>again feel honour bound not to charge interest.
Idelogically bound is closser to the point. Just covering up their
mistake.
>Bill
>
>Bill Bolton billbolton@onaustralia.com.au
>Sydney, Australia
Terry Flynn.