Minister for 'Short Memory'
Watching the ABC the other day,suddenly there is a break in regular transmission,and a N.B.N newsbreak by the LABOR party is aired...the oppositions communications minister proceeds with a barrage of nasty,continually accusing the current government of 'breaking' election promises :o:oo::no:...i can still hear the echoes of the fallen..THERE WILL BE NO CARBON TAX :~..WERE STILL GETTING $1000 POWER BILLS :~...i don't wish the minister for 'SHORT MEMORY' (Jason Claire)a merry christmas...maybe he can send me some ham,as we,along with millions of others,are bloody battling...sick to death of politicians and their rhetoric,as i am sure most of you are..Merry Christmas to all the battlers out there..MM:2tsup:
Going around and around in ever decreasing circles
"Wouldn't it be great to have some pollies who had some real vision"
Yes!!!!
I am getting annoyed at the lack of "vision" in Australia as our third rate pollies hurl insults at each without providing any semblance of a solution to the problems facing Australia.
Then they have audacity to rort their travel claims. Malcolm Turnbull seems to be a man who could look beyond the next ten second sound bite; or he might just be another pollie....Perhaps we should elect Dick Smith as PM.
It seems that any attempt to change anything gets shouted down and the status quo remains. The Snowy River Scheme built in the 50's and 60's and about 80 dams were built. I really don't think that we could do it today - every short sighted, self interested nutcase would bog it down in more red tape.
In August I spent six weeks in Germany and I was very impressed with their strong work ethic and the amount of construction work going on in Berlin. The EU is a bit of a basket case but Germany is cruising. Yes, they have four times our population but they also have six world-class car makers. (Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, Opel, Porche). Of course, they get a subsidy of about $90 per head (compared with about $18 per head in Australia), and they invent and innovate. Ford and Holden kept on making the same cars they did in the 50's, but the market changed.
I really feel for the workers, and the government should impose a tariff on imported cars to level the playing field. And Detroit should put in more of their money.