Once more thoughts turn to budget consultation

Well, the last few budget’s consultation submissions were all people saying “No, of course we don’t want less money, there’s a recession coming up. We don’t know exactly when, but we know that we can’t survive one of those if our funding gets cut…”.

So Princess Katy pointed her wand at the horizon of the Land of Servants, waved it three times, and told her constituents not to worry, her friends in the Federales would provide cream and honey for everybody, as they had extra to spare in their cupboards, or were able to produce more honey because they had lots of working bees.
Katy has been waving her wand for months now, but the Federales’ big pot of honey is running low, because there are bee shortages across the Land of Stralia.
Katy’s Federale friends have even had to borrow cream from the Lands of Foreign with promises of giving them back even more cream later on. Their cupboard is bare.

Katy knows that her Servants like cream and honey, but will also eat the flesh of their own kind in times of scarcity. Those people who previously suckled on the public purse for their cream and honey grew fat, and now look mighty tasty if you have an eye for such things.
Katy, thinking herself seperate from the tastes of her Servants, can’t bring herself to kill off her treasured fattened fellows.
But if one of them were to behave badly, or set itself out from the others by looking fatter or tastier, if the People might notice and complain. Princess Katy might be able to use that complaint as an excuse to let one of her Faceless Dark Servants swing their mighty Axe of Financial Responsibility, and the other Nice Servants will not go hungry.
Historically, Hungry Servants tend to find themselves a new Princesses once they have eaten the old one.

Hahahaahahahahaahahaah WMC classic funny

Of course we all know Muslims don’t save money they spend it on gold and cologne and mercedes and C4.

Personally if I was Katy I would go back over the last three budgets and remove $50 to $100 million of previous initiatives which are now out of date or were ridiculous in the first place. I can if you like write a list. Last year for example $100 million of new recurring initiatives were added to the Budget I’m sure some pruning could be done now the election is out of the way for a few more years.

Of course the present tactic seems to be wring your hands and wait for someone else to make a decision or reveal the big pot of treasure we lost.

I’m OUTRAGED! Why wasn’t I CONSULTED about this consultation before they decided to consult? Why, there could be MUSLIMS providing submissions for all I know.

This is more a reporting SNAFU on your part than any problem on theirs, Jb.

That document you have a screencap of is clearly information about the FY09-10 budget feedback request session, which ran from 22 December 2008 until 10 February 2009.

We’re currently in FY 09-10 now, taking consultation on priorities to consider in the FY 09-10 budget would be pointless now, considering that the Legislative Assembly has already consulted on it, reviewed the proposal, and made it real.
The file you have so lovingly reproduced here was created on 18 December 2008 and has a great big heading about “09-10 ACT Budget Consultation” too.

Everything else on that website is up to date and talking about FY 10-11, which is the future FY, so worth actually having a contribution on.

The actual closing date for giving feedback\contribution to the current Budget Consultation is 28 September 2009 (nine weeks away), which is printed all over the website you have linked to, in their actual consultation documentation, and except in that (very visibly outdated) document you have made the star of this piece, as that was originally written six months ago for the last budget round.

It’s always a danger when recycling copy.

I wonder if they’ve got time to get it back from the printers.

10 February 2009, hey? So only almost 6 months ago.