Are you sure, that by cutting staff waiting lists went down?
"More than 2,650 extra nurses, doctors and health staff will be employed by a re-elected LNP government, Campbell Newman has announced. The commitment would cost about $583 million and be delivered over three years from the next financial year. "That's 490 additional doctors, 1,700 additional nurses and 464 additional health practitioner positions," he said.
One way the politicians can shrink the size of the public sector is through privatization or, if you prefer, the disposal of assets.
We privatized the Commonwealth Bank and then gave it a royal commission of inquire upon hearing about abuses and practices bordering outright theft We privatized the Electricity Commission of NSW and then gave subsidies to the poor pensioners so that they would not perish from hypothermia during the winter, and so on.
