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Interest rates and electricity's up up up again
Jul 1st, 2010 at 11:27am
 
.....  Ironic considering Gillard herself escaped a cold Welsh climate under medical advise with her family as a small child due to her having bronchial phenomena and scars on her lungs.
Needed a warmer climate or else she wouldn't have been able to attend school during winter as a child back in Wales.

Imagine how many more elderly people and young children from disadvantaged households simply wont be able to afford adequate heating this winter, this and will then turn to a failing health care system when they get sick  only to be left for dead in an under-staffed hospital corridor on a stretcher if they are lucky, in an under resourced hospital ran by under-qualified , under-paid, over-worked immigrants on working visas (possibly with HIV, who would know, we don't test them) who are flat out speaking the English language...much less providing the same level of care Australians had expectations of receiving in what is supposed to be a progressive (not regressive) 1st world country, well was before Labor blew the budget and tried to purchase votes by  funding doomed lefty projects.

Honestly, how do you sleep when your ears are burning, with respects to all the behind the scene Labor party back-stabbery/cannibalism?

Julia, would your family have immigrated to Australia under these circumstances back in the 60's, when the Aussie battler could once upon a time afford to buy a home of their own, even on a basic wage in their early 20's the way my parents did? Recall the days were we offered quality public health care, (woman had their own female wards when they were admitted to hospital, men also) and could still take a family holiday with the family at least once a year?
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you...no sorry Julia/Labor, this just wont do at all.

Most of us  want better for our children, don't want them to do it  tougher than we did ourselves when starting out in life.

Though not being a parent yourself Julia, you wouldn't understand this sentimentality, would you...  as you belong to a  sanctimonious back-stabbing Labor party, and like them, are only out for yourself.

Don't forget to wear your stab-vest to the polls Julia, because Bill Shortens just behind you.

You will be easier to topple than Rudd, this is why you are now the leader of the Labor party, not because they thought you would be the best 'man' for the job.

You're just keeping Bills seat warm, that's all.

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Reply #1 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 11:40am
 
Energy prices are going up worldwide.

Australian politicians don't have much influence on such things.

Interest Rates might start to ease soon for a short time, the way things are going, but they are not astronomical at the moment.  

You can say all kinds of emotional things about it, but the Australian Economy is like a leaf blowing in the wind.  There are bigger forces at work than government. That's not to say that they are incapable of screwing things up. If they are incompetent enough, and really try, they will succeed in screwing things up. The Resources Tax was a good attempt at doing just that.

When it comes to intervention, they are damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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Reply #2 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 11:41am
 

mellie , so, you don't like the alp ??

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Reply #3 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:10pm
 
Off the record, did you know that Labor when asked to fund more programs for autistic children responded with...

"Now lets not make Autistic children another stolen generation"

Apparently autistic children's parents votes aren't the order of the day.

Say what you like, and excuse it how you will, but Labor have blown much funding on senseless projects, this and made our situation much worse than it would have been had they been more socially responsible and not attempted to purchase minority votes, this or immigrate them irresponsibly.

Youth crime has doubled since 2005, though due to Labor cutting their ABS funding,(statistics research) ... it's difficult for researches to determine how and exactly when the youth crime rate doubled. Before or after 2007.

Well, this is one way of keeping the public ignorant and sweeping the mess under the carpet, but due to our overall living standards having dropped for a majority of Australians since Howard left the building, I think it's fair to say Labor played a significant part in this.

My son hasn't had a computer studies teacher for an entire term, (the school cant get one), this and are dreadfully underfunded across a whole range of their even 'basic' subjects, some of which are unable to be taken for the HSC anymore, due to there not being the available staff to teach 3 or more units of maths, and or what most once deemed basic subjects all public schools are supposed to offer.

My son is academically inclined, was permitted to attend a "fast-forward" university program, of which simply turned out to be the semi-privatised faculty advertising their campus.

This and stopped being funded half way through!

So dont now sit back and try to peg this gross negligence on the global downturn, when so much of what Gillard herself as deputy PM wasted when she  funded useless projects to cat scratch her way to the top, (particularly on the education and child care front) never really came to fruition , this or was scrapped for obvious reasons.

How about closing the gap re- Indigenous Australians, what a massive time and money wasting exercise this was, all you did was bribe the elders to keep the stats at bay for a while...but they leaked out eventually, much to a Labor parts horror.

But we can go to a government website and determine which restaurants are the safest to eat at, this and see which independent school has the best reputation/HSC results, so we may make informed choices, if only we had the means to afford them


So instead of admitting to their failings, a Labor government encourages parents to become 'empowered' this and blame underfunded schools for the deterioration in their kids public education, (what pigs)...when it was a Labor government who afflicted them with a pathetic budget to begin with, so they were forced to cut staff, and employ those on working visas, given quality teachers are leaving the profession in droves, this or seeking employment in better paid/funded independent schools.

Labor stole from the poor to give to the wealthy, and apparently, we were not supposed to notice?


Something had to suffer, and as always, it wasn't going to be Lu Kewen (Krudd) or his own sons exclusive private Marist College in Canberra, or any other independent school he may enrol in now for that matter.

Marist or Marxist college I wonder?

Angry....Labor blew it, end of story, and if you give them another crack at it, don't complain when things get allot worse for at least 80% of Australians will slip sink into a recession (already have)..it's just it's a class determined recession, one we aren't supposed to discuss.

Immigrants included.

Angry....

We need to get back to basics, the minimum basic standard of what any public student in an Australian government school should expect due to generations of their own familys having worked their guts out and paid taxes in this country to provide for them.

Australians are among the highest taxed nations in the world, and in return, we get lumbered with other nations unprivileged, this and get rewarded with a substandard health and education system.
Australians deserve better, and had Labor done the right thing, they would have better.

It's not just electricity, it's an overall deterioration in Australias living standards that's diminished.

From transport, infrastructure, to health , education and environment.

Labor inherited a fantastic kitty, (thanks to a Howard government)...and what have they done with it?

Squandered it in all the wrong places!

Would you like me to itemise the specific policy failures for your careful scrutiny?

Are you arguing that Labor were in no way irresponsible for this mess?

Name one thing they have brought to the table in the last 3 years, what have they done for Australia?







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Reply #4 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:12pm
 
good points, muso.
This is why, in Australia, it is critical that people vote for *policies* and forward-thinking, understanding politicians who can manage this economy through what is happening and what might be coming, not just voting on image and gender and ideology because we like the sound of the name of the party. This is dangerous territory now. There will be huge inflation coming in this country, I hear that people are going hungry now because of mortgage stress trying to keep up their payments and not lose their houses. Mortgage rates in the past have actually more than tripled from what the levels are now. If that happens now, there will be wholesale evictions in this country.
The government, whoever is in, needs to *stop spending billions* of dollars in deficits, it causes inflation. They need to operate as individuals should - have a surplus until the world economy settles down, if it does. This country sold most of its gold as well in the mid 1990s, so now our currency isn't even backed by that, more's our loss in this crisis, so our currency appears to be backed by iron ore and coal. I hope China keeps going well, but hey, they're buying up gold too aren't they.
What's going down folks!!! Better look at your political candidates very very carefully - have they got what it takes to get us through this - beyond nice hairdos and budgie smugglers.
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Reply #5 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:15pm
 
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Off the record, did you know that Labor when asked to fund more programs for autistic children responded with...

"Now lets not make Autistic children another stolen generation"


Mellie, can you provide a link to that, or some information on where you heard it please?
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Reply #6 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:37pm
 
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Mellie, can you provide a link to that, or some information on where you heard it please?

Yea good luck Annie, as you know Mellie is a compulsive liar.
Hey Mellie, how long before interest rates reach as high as they were under the coalition when they left office? LOL Grin
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Reply #7 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:42pm
 
I did a quick google search and the only thing that came up was a comment on a blog at the Liberal party website.

This is an important area for me, so if it's true I'd like to know.
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Reply #8 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:42pm
 
Would you like me to itemise the specific policy failures for your careful scrutiny?

Are you arguing that Labor were in no way irresponsible for this mess?

Name one thing they have brought to the table in the last 3 years, what have they done for Australia?*****

And re- the autism thingo, like I already told you anthrax, it's off the record, I have a relative who is a close friend of a local Labor MP, who divulged to to me recently.

So like I said, there is nothing I can do to substantiate this statement (like I advised) the reason I put it up was so others who may have the means to do so can look into this themselves, and assist me further with finding some on-the-record information to support this alleged comment.  Put simply, my uncle asked his mate about autistic funding, ( due to my having an autistic daughter) over a beer down at Fivedock RSL one afternoon, and at a recent gathering, my uncle advised my parents what he had been told when the topic came up.

He doesn't mind a drink, and because he's now retired, this and is not a well man, he is more open about his politics now.

And before you ask, no he was not a politician.

I have no reason to believe that neither my uncle or his MP mate were telling lies.

Why on earth would he make something up like this?






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Reply #9 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:43pm
 
Annie Anthrax wrote on Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:42pm:
I did a quick google search and the only thing that came up was a comment on a blog at the Liberal party website.

This is an important area for me, so if it's true I'd like to know.



Yes it is true, but now I want you to do something for me, may I have the link to this blog please?


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Reply #10 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:46pm
 
mellie wrote on Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:43pm:
Annie Anthrax wrote on Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:42pm:
I did a quick google search and the only thing that came up was a comment on a blog at the Liberal party website.

This is an important area for me, so if it's true I'd like to know.



Yes it is true, but now I want you to do something for me, may I have the link to this blog please?




And is it the Labor blog you have to join?

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Reply #11 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:47pm
 
Annie Anthrax wrote on Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:42pm:
I did a quick google search and the only thing that came up was a comment on a blog at the Liberal party website.

This is an important area for me, so if it's true I'd like to know.


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Off the record, did you know that Labor when asked to fund more programs for autistic children responded with...

"Now lets not make Autistic children another stolen generation"


I'm sure its a lie, who would say it? if its on the Lib website the government should demand its removed or proven to be true, its my bet some lib stooge just lied, Abbott should be made to either put up or resign for letting it stay there.
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Reply #12 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:49pm
 
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And re- the autism thingo, like I already told you anthrax, it's off the record, I have a relative who is a close friend of a local Labor MP, who divulged to to me recently

You idiot.
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Reply #13 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:58pm
 
http://www.liberal.org.au/Issues/Community/Disabilities/Ideas/2010/03/18/Increase-Autism-Funding-to-50000pa-per-child-for-2-years.aspx

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Lets not make Australian autistic children another lost/stolen generation!

You realize that in that context this person was just saying that they didn't want Autistic people to be forgotten?
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Reply #14 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:59pm
 


Anthrax, you claim to have found something on a blog (which is probably just your way of trying to discredit what my relative was advised) , this or don't want to share it... either way you are a jerk!

Rather than call people names, how about you debate the subject at hand, this opposed to deviously setting out to stifle the messenger?

If you have a child with a disability, then one would have thought you'd be a little more thoughtful in your approach, this and wouldn't mind putting the link up?



You're not a team player are you...and so typical of Labs.

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