@Susan60
Also true. The fetish for the private sector!! 🤑Why can’t we move on? Time & time again we learn through bad experience that the private sector provision of essential goods & especially services, has to be regulated, monitored, & experience consequences when it does the wrong thing. Perhaps when all that is added together, in some ‘Social Economics’ or ‘cost benefit analysis’ that actually includes all the externalities, it will be found to be a more effective use of public monies to offer services through public sector structures. 🤔

Oooo now I feel I’m ranting!!

#SocialEconomics #PrivateSector #PublicSector #essentialGoods #essentialServices # CostBenefitAnalysis #externalities #PublicMonies #Taxation

@joannaholman @Philipnschofield

SMH on Westpac's publicly funded promo junket

"NSW Ambulance provides Westpac Rescue more than $40 million a year, which covers its core operations. Westpac Rescue tops up its budget with donations from the public. The latest figures show it spent 40 per cent of the $17 million it raised on fundraising and events. Sponsorships accounted for $3.9 million, most of which came from Westpac Bank, which has supported the service for 50 years but has no operational oversight"

#ausPol #publicMonies #gimmeGimmeGimme

https://archive.is/20251021013611/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/every-dollar-counts-westpac-rescue-spends-big-on-high-teas-golf-days-lavish-balls-20251020-p5n3rg.html

**I've told you all, several times, that you shouldn't trust #BCNDP & that they're #sellout #neoliberals. They pander to #CorporateLobbyists invested in #Ecocide & exploitation of unceded #IndigenousLands. #RCMPCIRG = #CorporateMercenaries funded by #PublicMonies - our #Taxpayers funds. I told you that #DavidEby was groomed by #JohnHorgan too. I wasn't lying. They both lied to public though.**

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects.

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legislation.

https://breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-controversial-police-opposition-fast-tracked-resource-projects

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #DoYourJob #Neoliberalism #Corruption #MilitarizedForce #PublicInterest #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #BCNewDeathParty #FossilFuels #BoughtByIndustry

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legislation

The Breach

Someone should be looking into #DavidEby #personal #political & #corporate #financials in #BritishColumbia right now too. Sleazy & corrupt actions will be #exposed if all those papers were revealed - going back before #NewDeathParty #BCNDP even came back into power here.

Huge #government #coverups & they used our #public #taxpayers #monies to fund that #sleazy #corruption & legal defense. Eby & few others need public reckonings for unethical actions against #PublicInterest using #PublicMonies