Been meaning to re-post this for a week but uhh…yeh.

Originally from ZH, we can clearly see that the Federal Reserve has made it much more expensive to live than 100 years ago relative to incomes – even as people are allegedly “wealthier”.

Literally the single most destructive and damaging government in Australia’s history.

A rarely good article from The Oz

Concentration of bullshit jobs in the federal public service is not unique to the US. Canberra, as much as Washington DC, houses departments teeming with highly-paid people who seek to regulate health, education, agriculture and commerce, for instance, but whose staff could go on strike for a year without causing a ripple of concern among the wider populace. In the US, as in Australia, most useful services — police, courts, teachers, hospitals and bus drivers, for example — are employed by state governments.

This is why federal public servants, unlike their state counterparts, rarely if ever go on strike: sheer embarrassment.