[Kharon]

Nuts and raisins.

I don’t understand the way government works – not at all. Military airports for an exemplar of a real ‘head scratcher’. So, the public purse pays the ‘defence’ bills; no problem with that. The public purse pays for the new toys and support equipment, no problem with that. The public purse pays for safety equipment and training, no problem with that. So what am I barking at? The ability to control fire and extricate aircrew and passengers out of a burning aircraft is an essential; equipment, training, support the whole nine yards, willingly and unstintingly paid for by the public purse. Now, we find the ‘stuff’ used to control the fire is dangerous and has contaminated the ground water around some airports. This has not happened through any deliberate act of malice or negligence; nonetheless, people’s health is at risk and their property devalued.

Now ‘they’, those affected, have a fight on their hands to either get the ground water cleaned up or to be compensated; probably both. It was public money used to create the mess; why must more public money be spent now on legal actions, when the public purse will be used to compensate at rectify the situation. No ones looking to ‘blame’ anyone; good intentions with the best of motives; but, the chemicals have created a ‘problem’. Why not just cut out the middle man and fix the mess – from the public purse and save the public a lot of money, time, trouble and aggravation? Now private funds must be expended to fight a government using public money to defend a problem created using public money. It’s nuts. Seems it’s public money happily splashed about to buy things, but when it comes to fixing things, suddenly that public becomes the ‘enemy’ who want to steal their own money from the government to fix a major problem. That’s not nuts, its raisins..

Aye, raisins enough to drive you nuts.

Toot toot………