Please help me choose!

Just announced is that Queensland politicians are to receive 3 pay rises over the next 18 months. Bear in mind that Australian politicians are very well paid anyway, and have lucrative superannuation and pension benefits not available to other workers.

Justification: Pay peanuts and you’ll get monkeys. Reality: Pay a fortune and get monkeys!

I have been in my current job for about 14 years, and in that time I have received 2 pay rises. But by all reports, I am very good at my job.  I know there are millions of Australian workers worse off than me, and it gets worse year after year as the army of the working poor swells–the underpaid full-time, casuals and part-time workers– those people for whom work means only a subsistence life.

 If I made mistakes that cost the company an amount of money they deemed unacceptable, I’m certain I would be summarily dismissed. 

Yet a politician can make the most costly mistakes (costly to the taxpayer that is), the most egregiously bad decisions  –ignorant, corrupt, or stupid– and never be held accountable.

Oh, what did you say? There’s an election every X number of years? Now that’s a long time to be incompetent and keep your job, isn’t it?

Election time. Oh it’s such a difficult decision to make.

Please help me choose. 

Who should I choose to pay to make incompetent and unaccountable decisions in secret?

Tweedle-dum or tweedle-dee??