> They have a special "intensive care" system or something. Wait...
> I'll look it up. I *love* bureaucratese.

> Intensive Support Services!

stare> A contradiction in every word they use.

 That's why I love bureaucratese. If I ever have to write something
as if from government, I have to grab a letter from Centrelink or the
Tax Office and copy it. There is no way I could invent something so
utterly without meaning.

 I suspect they have a special breeding program. They hunt the
hospitals for braindead babies, raise them, educate them at Geelong
Grammar, send them for a Arts Degree, and then put them in charge.

 How else could someone like Amanda Vanstone end up as Minister for
Employment? She's come out of the braindead baby program... or as she
might put it: the Extended Thought Facility.

JT> Where you sit vegetating waiting for the payments that never
JT> come. Too bad they forgot to tell you they're stopping all
JT> those payments.

 They told me. I keep getting the same automatic letter...

> The keep the jobs for the *prime* suspects, where they're sure to
> get a divvy on the first year, and the long-term no-hopers like
> me go into Intensive Care which presumably pays more from
> Centrelink.

JT> Ah, so I was right, but for the wrong reason. They are looking
JT> at not losing the least money, but making the most. Apparently,
JT> the losses aren't as great as I first thought.

 The reason that private enterprise works (and why it must *never* be
put in charge of Government Services) is that is optimises profits to
itself. The reason that bureaucracy fails is that there is nothing to
optimise, except security for the bureaucrats. The function of elected
government should be to *prevent* private enterprise screwing its
customers for profit (like the banks have done since deregulation),
and to *force* bureaucrats to provide a service. Under Howard we get
the worst of both worlds.

> I went to an Intensive Support interview last Friday, and the
> nice lady suggested I go to teaching, at TAFE! ROFL! I'm 64 in
> November, my degree is incomplete and 40 years old anyway, and
> the conversion course from engineering to teaching is 12 months.
> What the fuck? Oh. I forgot to mention, TAFE has compulsory
> retirement at 65.

JT> That's ok, with a year of training, you can teach for two
JT> months. It's a bit of money at least. (who's paying for the
JT> training by the way?) 

 TAFE... but you have to qualify first, and of course I don't.

Regards,
Bob
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