Re: privitisation

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

The railways and the banks have a captive customer base forced to use their
services. Customers get ripped off for all they can and more. The service
may haemorage, but the dollars roll in!

Cheers
John Wayman

andrew-d wrote in message <3695712C.D5251AB8@rivernet.com.au>...
>        I used to think that the third world service with first world
>        fares offered by Cityrail was due primarily to management/govt
>        incompetence and bastardry, with perhaps a small factor due
>        to a few apathetic moronic little Hitlers working there.
>
>        Since starting to read this NG, I have come to the conclusion
>        that while perhaps not the majority, moronic little Hitlers
>        are the norm at Cityrail. Even if the government can be
>        made to offer a credible service, it will still be provided
>        by tiny minded racist bastards who want a uniform to throw
>        their pathetic weight around in. I guess the rail workers
>        with enough brains to see what's going on and get organised
>        have already been gotten rid of.
>
>        So there will be no battle over privatisation, it's already
>        lost                             .- michael
>
>**** like we the shit kickers of the rail way have any say about what
>goes on. i hope cityrail is privatised, you would get a real shock in
>the price hike. the railways are subsudised so heavely , you would see
>the ticket prices jump by about 400%. you would also have less staff for
>saftey and the timetable currently running would be shoot out the
>window. but as it is a third world serviceyou would like it to be
>privatised as this is the answer!!!    wake up to your self, just ask
>any pom about there prices for there train travel? i dare you . and then
>you might appreciate how good you do have it!
>fred  :o)
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