Originally Posted by
Square Bear
Would have been interesting really...the Labor party sold Australian Airlines to QANTAS in the 1990's, and started the sale of QANTAS by selling 25% of it to BA in 1993.
AND Aerial you consider that Govt purchasing VA with a debt in excess of $7 BILLION would have been a good idea?
Seeing how Governments run, that would have been a 70 Billion black hole in no time.
And really, even the Labor party (if they had of been in power) would not be that stupid...they are just saying what you want to hear...its called being in opposition and just having thought bubbles, and preaching to people that believe that those in Government are there for the electorates good (hahahahaha...yeah right!!!).
I never said VA should have been bailed out by the government... that's just rewarding poor performance, I was responding to you suggesting a "... Labor government would have bailed them out..." with the impression that you seem to think that's a bad thing but you have nothing to say about the LNP bailing out REX... that's like Howard parroting how "... the Commonwealth isn't in the business of bailing out private companies..." when Ansett collapsed... OH, wait!!! Unless they are a company who the then PM's brother is on the board of...