Mr Barnett has been providing jobs for the boys, the big boys, by unprecedentedly laying out lavish largesse by way of huge projects for the construction and building sector ” the freeway, roads, Elizabeth Keys to name a few.
In the process, he has willingly gone into debt.
Nevertheless, he must have known all the time that the State could handle that debt by selling public state assets.
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