What we do not see from either ministry are proposals for substantially down-sizing or restructuring the welfare state, the financing of which is the reason for the unsustainable financial gap.
"The chief executive told me this comes as a result of changes to workloads and contracts and that there needs to be a major down-sizing of the workforce, " he said.
For healthy economic growth rates to return, these zombies need to be allowed to expire (that means bankruptcy for the private-sector zombies, and a massive down-sizing, if not the outright dissolution, of the federal leviathan) so that valuable economic resources can be reallocated to more rational, wealth-producing ventures.