What's the issue?

Politics is such fun once you have desensitized your emotional attachment to human suffering. In fact with a little steroid injection into your sense of humor, politics can be more entertaining than the 25-year-old Carte Blance.

Take for instance the comment by Deputy Minister of Public Works, saying that the department is not proud of wasting, (actually he said misspending, same thing), the mind-numbing amount of more than three and a half billion Rands. Wooohooo. That number should be enough to make your eyes water, with tears I would expect. Tears of laughter if you have had the steroid injection for your sense of humour, otherwise they will surely be tears of utter grief.

Helen, or the Madam, as Julius likes to refer to her, is cackling about food parcels that were possibly the deal sweetener for a few little pencil marks on a piece of paper or two, while elsewhere in the real world statistics were being released that seemed to imply that the ninety nine strikes we rustled up the year 2012, brought about a loss of wages to the healthy tune of over six billion and six hundred million and a few hundred thousand Rands.

How did the department of Public Works manage to miss spend such an astronomical amount of money. Well with a little help it would seem from Comrade Roux Shabangu, and then they did things like rent wine glasses for the presidents guests at a handsome fee of around two hundred Rand each.

Well thank goodness for Thuli Madonsela, we the public must protect her as she goes about her duties of protecting us. She is unwavering in her determination to investigate the handing out of food parcels by the Minister of Social Development. Timing is everything just not all the time.

So if you have not had a steroid jab to yout sense of humor you might begin to think of where the three billion six hundred million Rand could have been spent instead of hiring offices we don't need and renting wine glasses at three hundred times the price it costs to buy them.

If you were in office as a government official, where would you spend it? Aids orphanages? Underprivileged schools? Would you use it to create jobs, which would reduce the crime rate? Clean running water in a few townships maybe? Perhaps you would spend it on health issues like the imminent closing of the McCords Hospital in Durban. Or just rent a few wine glasses.