I ' m bitter from being hurt due to my naivete . I also realize that love is a feeling that expires , whether we like it or not . Sure , there are couples that end up dying together but I am realizing just how rare that is . In this day and age , I don ' t see it happening to me . <| sep |> Because Most people work for the government The Libs always come in , enter EA bargaining in bad faith and leave annual wage increases on hold so wages don ' t keep up with inflation Meanwhile they put in place 3 year hiring freezes so that nobody gets promoted They then cut staff by offering the cranky old bats voluntary redundancies that pay significantly less than what they should The only people who benefit from this are ' contractors ' who fly in , make a mint doing simple IT stuff that any mug could do and then THEY end up hating the Libs when the gravy train runs out i . e . when the recruitment freeze is over Anybody who runs a private business relies on customers from the public service so a downturn in the public service also hurts their business unless they run one of the few approved staffing companies then they think like contractorsconsultants . happy but ultimately become pissed off when the gravy train stops and they are offered an APS 6 salary rather than an overly inflated hourly ' consultant ' rate that gives them more dosh than most SES staff All up the Libs have a habit of being Scrooge McDuck to their loyal servants while blowing money to the right , right and . yeah , further to the right which public servants have internal coverage of so it angers them even more to see their salary put on hold while a consultant with NFI is paid $ 500 an hour to ask them how to do their job that they are supposedly incapable of doing . It ' s a cycle , but I think it mostly comes down to what the Libs are like as an employer in comparison to Labor .