Public Sector Pay Cut Myth

The Public Sector wages myth really bugs me. The reality is that the wages bill for the public sector is less than one fourteenth of the total spend ( look at any semi state annual report) even a very large cut in wages results in a tiny overall cut. In fact the actual take home pay is about one twentyeighth of the total semi state budget.

A more effective way to cut spending is to stop the mad civil servants putting bonkers suggestions in front of the ministers. I remember an eijit in the late late audience screaming "it's my baby" when talking about the electronic voting, incuring a bill of several hundred million. Would somebody stop that crazed senior civil servant who is introducing "quality standards" all over the public sector with very little return and even less resistance ? The thing about a wage is everyone can relate to it, at a superficial level, but few understand that it is a tiny part of the problem.

Mind you concentrating the mind on a wage is a big part of populace rhetoric, and an abstract of the totality of reality that mindless gobby politicians (Senator Shame) rely on to set one part of society on the other.