Government might as well move its entire business behind closed doors

I HAVE to tell you something.

This isn’t something I like to admit readily because I’m supposed to be in the know about stuff. But I just don’t know what’s going on. Some of the recent decisions made in our name are nothing short of absurd. And some of the behaviour of the powers-that-be is completely inexplicable. Let me give you a couple of examples.

Example 1. In the aftermath of the budget I heard a man on radio say that between himself and his wife they were reasonably well paid couple, both employed in the private sector. They could afford, he said, to make a bigger contribution. Instead, the only impact the budget had on him was to lower the cost of his bottle of wine.