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2014-12-14 Down Under

Reports: Job Losses as 175 Australian Govt Agencies Face Scrap

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Of course, if you tried that here, the first thing to close is the national parks, and then they try to figure out if they can make everybody get off the interstate highways, and then...

Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-14 08:45|| 2014-12-14 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't this deserve the 'smallest violin' graphic?

Long, long time ago there was an agency call HEW in which all the Beltway's work on health, education, and welfare fit into one agency, because the federal constitutional authority to engage in such areas was small to non-existent. That was before the pols discovered they could raid the income stream from Social Security to buy votes with and thus the cancer spread.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-14 08:49|| 2014-12-14 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 These 175 "agencies" must be really, really small in the first place to have only "up to 170" canned.

Posted by tipover 2014-12-14 12:29|| 2014-12-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 You say that like the Agency for Casual Fridays (ACF) is unimportant.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-14 16:36|| 2014-12-14 16:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Unless you kkkapitalist wall streeter 1%rs expect shareholder board meeting piiig$$ to spend their million$$ allowing the natural right to have a living wage while wearing Hawaiian shirts.

Foronward!

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-14 16:40|| 2014-12-14 16:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Yokay, I'll bite = say it, ONE HUNNERT SEVENTY-FIVE???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-14 22:27|| 2014-12-14 22:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Iff this are the Aussies one can imagine how much worse the UK or former USSR [China?]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-14 22:29|| 2014-12-14 22:29|| Front Page Top

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