Why have I never read one single article where the govt reduces their own operating costs? They are without a doubt the least streamlined and most bloated enterprise in the country, yet they are always asking the guy just scraping by with razor thin margins to reduce his operating costs. Meanwhile he's paying a 50% tax rate, while only enjoying a 20% profit margin.

This is how things work when a competent private company is allowed to make their own decisions, instead of layers of govt bureaucracy, corruption, unions, and nepotism turning everything to shit.

As if we needed any more clear demonstration of the fact that anything the govt touches turns to shit. Give a 100% private company permission to do something, and they do it as efficiently as possible, and deliver a quality product. Leave it up to the govt, and it is full of nepotism, corruption, and waste.

Isn't mediocrity exactly what the union fosters?

Go for it. Clearly there is precedent.

History has proven again and again that when the govt gets in the business of telling competently run private enterprise how to operate, what comes next is famine, riots, and regime change. Do they not read their history books?

Stop spending the VAT money on "free" vacations, fancy cars for the govt employees, and all the other ridiculously extravagant spending that is happening. Nero, fiddles, something something.

The BPL CEO must be pretty high.

By that argument we shouldn't have any of the high end Asian, French, or Italian restaurants we currently have in the country, instead we should only feed our guests Bamboo Shack. I'm sure that won't affect our tourism numbers in the least.

They should just be fired and replaced with people who want to work. There is no shortage of labour.