Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 1^st, 2014 at 10:34am:


sprint, money is grossly over rated.
I know rich dudes with 6 investment properties who spend every weekend sorting out tenants problems, fixing drippy taps, chasing bad debts, stressed, probably going to an early grave.
once you have a bit, you realise, you don't need it to have fun,
cycling sounds great.
I think rich people have a good sense of self and good self esteem.
personally, it gives me the freedom to drive around in old utes and wear clothes from lowes and not feel like a loser because they all know I own many acres of prime grazing land. its liberating in that sense,
it lets you say to the world 

aquascoot wrote on Jul 1^st, 2014 at 10:00am:
I have nothing against people with money in general, I have a bit myself but you are wrong about the super wealthy like Rhinehart. They dont spend money, they accumulate it, often in complicated offshore schemes that do not benefit australia in any way shape or form. There are of course exceptions to his rule, Ziggy Forest being one who springs to  mind but in general the type of personality who is driven to constantly accumulate assets without stopping to smell the roses does not spread the wealth around. we have even had one the richest people in the world (warren buffet) state categorically the super rich are not taxed enough. That 3 bill coming from India? I can guarantee no australian will see any benefit from even 1 dollar of it.

aquascoot wrote on Jul 1^st, 2014 at 11:24am:


There you go wilfully confusing the issue again.

Nobody is HATING on the wealthy because they are wealthy.

People hate the system that allows a minority to become wealthy through being granted exclusive access to the resources of the commons, especially when they continually erode and attempt to break the social contract which theoretically affords them that access.

One would be entirely justified in their hatred of such people.

aquascoot wrote on Jul 1^st, 2014 at 11:24am:
But heres what I think, I pay my share of tax and always have and i think they should do the same and no amount of sneaky lawyers or dodgy accountants should be able to leverage them out of that responsibility, at the moment there are more tax loopholes for the super rich than you can shake a stick at and it is entirely possible for any government with the gumption to close these loopholes but it wont happen while any government is in bed with these people and our current government is not precluded from this.

aquascoot wrote on Jul 1^st, 2014 at 10:53am:


I hear you ther, I used to have 3 rentals. What a headache.
Shares are SO much 'cleaner'. Probably harder work
though.

My wife and I often laugh at our peasant ways. We often have poached eggs for dinner.
The cyclings amazing. I have cycled for 40 odd years. By the time we are at the end of our road I have a big smile on my face, wind in my hear, hearing the birds ....... It's a short road too.
Last weekend it was REALLY cold, we took off. After 15 minutes it was colder, a breeze whipped around, I exclaimed "Did you feel that !". Then considered, then louder "Did you feel how COLD it is ??"

You have an old ute ? I have a camry with 270,000 kms on the clock and LOTS of dents. It runs perfectly.
Many weeks I win more on the market than it is worth.
When I have a good winner I invite friends out to a restaurant. My shout.
Some years I turnover a few million there.

I have found money comes and goes.
My wife, cycling and bridge stay.

now now winston, dont be envious.

Thanks Winston,

You reminded me.

Aqua - Did you notice how Howard was very fit. His daily walk were exactly that is recommended by a doctor.
Abbott .......... well, Ironman triathlete competitor, cyclist, boxer.

Rudd ..............

The ideas of British author George Orwell, (1903 - 1950), warning on the political issues of socialism and the totalitarian police state, using the Soviet Union as he did in his books 1984 and Animal Farm, among others, continues to influence our political culture today because most of us who read his stuff, can see the rise of the odious authoritarian society he described actually unfolding before our very eyes, right now. We are long past Orwell’s fictional 1984 but what is happening to our country today, politically and economically, is as frightening and apparently inevitable, as the soul deadening endings of George Orwell’s tales.

We still use terms that Orwell introduced into common usage like the “cold war”, “newspeak” (political correctness), “thoughtcrime” (hate crimes), “Big Brother” (Obama), “doublethink” (Hillary Clinton interviews) and “Room 101” (White House briefing room), which was the torture chamber of the Ministry of Love in Orwell’s 1984. Is the reality of our status actually to be found in the pages of sixty year old novella’s? I’ve read them, my son’s have read them and they scared the bejesus out of us. Basically however, we knew that that was fiction except, was it? America was the shining land of freedom and plenty, “waving fields of grain” and all that. It couldn’t happen here. But, nevertheless we really saw it happening in Russia and China. And, while the old Soviet Union has collapsed and China opened Pandora’s box to Capitalism, 1984 is alive and well in today’s Cuba and now in Venezuela too. 

The Progressives are moving our America in the direction so suitably revealed to us by Orwell. And we have, by our inattention or inaction, permitted them to do so. We are being subjected to a slow motion hijacking of America. Wendell Phillips said it best when he told us that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Apparently we weren’t listening because even after his disastrous first term, Obama was re-elected by the numbers by a sub-culture of self-righteous moochers and leeches, indignant people with whom no argument, reasoned or otherwise, can make a dent. To these free loaders, tax payer supplied government largess, in the form of food stamps, welfare, free cell phones, free health care, etc. is now their conventional truth. Woe be unto the politician who attacks those beliefs frontally. That’s the new third rail of politics.

In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs stage a revolution over the humans, call it Animalism, (progressivism), win, then declare “all animals are equal”, a metaphor for our moochers and takers who vote for their ‘pigs’ to tax our earnings to give to them. Orwell’s story progresses from all animal meetings to a committee of Pigs who have become the elites and run things. All this is accompanied by lies, deceit and treachery. Of course a motto change was required: “All animals are equal but some animals (pigs, i.e.:career politicians) are more equal than others”. Orwell was describing the rise of the Soviet Union not forecasting the collapse of America or Britain and his animal characters were allegories to real Soviet people and events.

The arguments for equality are seductive and alluring and Orwell’s depiction of equality ends up just like we see coming to us now. Fairness is to become common misery for all, except the head pigs (the elites). Obama, is pushing inequality of wages as sinful hence his demands for higher minimum wages. Obama wants affordable housing for all and is trying to do what Dodd-Frank did just a few short years ago, require banks to make home loans to folks without proof of equity. This again will create a housing bubble sure to further cripple our economy. Orwell warned us about these events and we can see them coming. It’s not too late. Remember freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (9 June 2014)

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Animal Farm – George Orwell. Singapore.

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