CUTTING OUR LOSSES

Press, 27 September 1986, Page 20

CUTTING OUR LOSSES

By

WHIM WHAM

The Minister of Finance, Mr Douglas, said the Government would take responsibility for decisions in areas which the new corporations decided were unprofitable ... Ministers, representing the taxpayer, would not permit the new organisations to disguise their own inefficiencies under a heading of “social obligations” ... — News.

Government Departments Have Bureaucrats — Corporations have Executives, And of course That’s The highly significant Difference Between the Two — I’d rather have a Corporation messing Things up, wouldn’t You? They do It so much more efficiently Than Governments do! We’ve got Corporations, And More by the Minute — ■ A Pie with the Government’s Finger in It, Not much Gravy left for Social Occasions, When we’ve painted the Post Offices And Railway Stations, And shown a handy Profit on the Year’s Operations! This Way, the Government Feels no Flak — Like Water off a Duck’s, or A Minister’s Back — Was the Service rotten? That’s too bad! Think of the Economy, And be glad — The User has paid for what The User has had!