24 Jul 2022 10:39 pm
Cannonpointer » 24 Jul 2022, 9:33 pm » wrote: ↑ Do you so often get confused with people's mommies, fruitcake, that you can diagnose the issue that quickly, with that level of certainty?
Shall we assume you are a Buttigieg voter? Ya got them skinny jeans and a manbun thing goin on?
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This week there are signs that this apparently infinite wellspring of charitable endeavour is being harnessed by a bureaucracy. The Brisbane City Council has called on new Mud Army recruits to “sign up,’’ and there are indications the army will be issued directives, such as starting off in the worst hit areas.Mayor Adrian Schrinner, talking with 4BC breakfast host Neil Breen earlier this week, was clearly impressed with the recruitment drive.“In a matter of hours, we got 8000 people sign up to Mud Army 2.0 and those registrations keep coming in,” Schrinner said.Yesterday the call went out from the Mayor’s office for the entire mud Army to stand down until Saturday because of concerns about severe weather.It’s a sensible move to give direction to a mass of people who, as homeowners discovered in 2011, could get a little too enthusiastic, throwing out damaged household items which may have been required to stay put for insurance assessments.But it is to be hoped that the army’s spirit is not going to be extinguished by the dead hand of bureaucracy.If it’s ever formalised into some form of government-funded program its soul will die, replaced by committees and advisory groups who will use terms like “service delivery’’ and “stake holders’’ and “placed based initiatives’’ to blast the benevolence out of something so benign – something so illustrative of the human spirit which, for all its faults, can be so selfless and kind when it witnesses another’s suffering.
No worries old bean.
Greg