That's an interesting construct DK. The concept is somewhat lacking in accepting the ideology that even when you pay to support the thieves in lieu of them rippin off your goodies, it still happens regardless.
Our cops here are really great about it though. When you come home to find all your shit gone and call 'em up they eventually show up and will listen patiently and take down a full accounting of what's missing and what you value it at. Sometimes they'll even mumble some half hearted BS to impart the idea they might actually give a shit before tellin ya to be sure and let them know if you manage to somehow find some of your shit so they can cross it off their list. Then they rush off to make sure they hit the Donut Palace before it shuts down for the day.
Dunno about how it is in Oz but here we pay pretty dearly for a govt that seems to do whatever the hell they deem is best for us, never mind what we actually think. They treat us to long lines at govt. offices where we're eventually served by brain dead zombies with attitudes who seem best suited to jobs as mannequins from the molasses like pace they move about with.
Whatever you do it's best to never challenge them by asking a procedural question or anything more complicated than what time it is as this will lead to that deer in the headlights look as they search those little mini files they call a brain and then will have to seek their supervisor for clarification while you stand there afraid to turn around and face the folks behind you in line 'cause you know you just managed to piss most of them off in this same moment as was evidenced by the exasperated collective sigh you heard right after posing your query.
We've steadily moved ever closer to a socialistic society here meaning govt gets ever larger while intruding further and further into progressively more areas of our lives, taking an ever larger share of $$ outta our back pockets and all the while confounding businesses every step of the way by making it continually more difficult to turn, much less maintain a profit margin .... unless you contract out to the govt of course
Yeah, you could say I love it here bit that would be stretchin it a bit. I love the ideology we were founded upon, just not the perversion of it we enjoy today
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