Earlier today your esteemed Treasurer addressed a delightful story to the businessmen of the nation about the time he “exploded” in public because he didn’t get his way at a pizza place.
Hockey took his family to meet some friends at the small business for a pleasant get together, only to have his dream of a satisfying slice ruined by the demon of business regulations.
When Hockey attempted to move two tables together to fit his party of eight, “the owner of the pizza shop came out and said ‘I’m sorry Mr Hockey, you’re not allowed to do that, the council regulation prevents you putting the two tables together’.”
As any reasonable public servant would do, he called the mayor at 6pm on a Friday night to shout him down. “I think the whole suburb heard the conversation,” he said.
This bizarre admission was meant to demonstrate to the upstanding capitalists of Australia that Joe Hockey, too, has experienced the difficulties which come when a business has to comply with certain regulations. In Joe Hockey’s free market utopia, where, anyone who wanted a Friday night margherita could put their tables and chairs wherever they damn well please! But in order to bring about such a paradise, it’s important, Hockey has shown, that we all harass our local governments after hours by embarrassingly overreacting in public. A teachable moment, for sure.
Via SMH