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    Default Thats life I hope not!

    OK I may have put this one in the wrong spot or its a tad too sensitive but may need looking at as it is your money and debt.

    Fuel watch

    Grocery watch

    Australian Business Investment Partnership – AKA Rudd bank
    The proposal is that the Government and the four leading banks set up a company (with $2 billion of our money and $500 million each from the banks) to lend to commercial property ventures hit by the withdrawal of foreign lenders from Australia.
    Ruddbank - or the Australian Business Investment Partnership, as the Government prefers it to be called - would be a lender of last resort. The ventures would have to be "otherwise viable", we are assured.
    But if there were a lot of them the company would also be able to borrow up to $26 billion, guaranteed by the federal Government, on top of the initial $4 billion injection.
    With potentially $28 billion in taxpayers' money at stake, the Senate, wisely, decided to take a closer look.

    Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program.

    Homes for the homeless/social housing – funds diverted to the BER $750 mill
    Was the federal government rash when it promised a year ago that it would cut the nation's homeless queues in half by 2020?

    Building the education reform (BER)

    Computers for every school kid
    Not too sure if this is part of the BER or a separate distraction in its own right

    Home Insulation Scheme

    Green Loans

    Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)/Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)

    The Resource Super Profit Tax, (RSPT)
    This one is still running nicely as per defined spin.

    Also just for the record the 2 lots of cash hand outs, pensioners et al and the second one of $900.
    Yes you guessed it, I missed out on both.

    It is just a small list spanning 3 years. I hope I did not miss something but heck we paid for all this and I hope you got your moneys worth back.

    Now I unfortunately am not suggesting much here but I can defiantly say we pay for politicians and their labour of love for our country and simply both sides of the fence seem to fail the test badly.

    Can we have our money back?

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    what was actually achieved by all of this?

    i saw a rubbish bin in proston a little town 200ks west of gymipe and 100ks outa kingaroy. nothing but a pub and a store.

    i was sitting in me ute and saw it and thaught that is the bast looking rubbish bin i have ever seen.

    i walked past it latter and it had a plaque "national building stimulus plan". thaught to my self im sure this town needed a massive stainless steel rubbish bin.

    the other side of teh road had a 44 with legs welded on it.

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    My thoughts exactly Carl!!

    I don't mind paying taxes, I just object to so much of this pointles spending.

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    Next election I'm voting for the party that promises me a yacht to go with my affordable living standards. Did I say "AFFORDABLE" ?..
    Reality is no background music.
    Cheers John

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    Quote Originally Posted by munruben View Post
    Next election I'm voting for the party that promises me a yacht to go with my affordable living standards. Did I say "AFFORDABLE" ?..

    One problem with that John _ No matter whoyou vote for a politician will win.

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    do you reckon that if enough of us cast donkey votes, they will all take their bats and balls (or lack thereof (reference to both genders BTW)) and go home?
    Mick

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gingermick View Post
    do you reckon that if enough of us cast donkey votes, they will all take their bats and balls (or lack thereof (reference to both genders BTW)) and go home?
    And just how strong is your belief in avian pigs Mick.??

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    Quote Originally Posted by munruben View Post
    Next election I'm voting for the party that promises me a yacht to go with my affordable living standards. Did I say "AFFORDABLE" ?..
    If your affordability is like everyone else's about here that was a 30 cm yacht not a 30 meter one ..

    Everyone is brought/forced down to the same lowest common denominator.

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    artme: avian pigs!
    They must have been promised somewhere at sometime by some party so they must be real.

    I believe spin doctors all the time every day..

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    And just how strong is your belief in avian pigs Mick.??
    Well if that idea wont work, I may declare my own country of 850mē, making it just bigger than Luxembourg, and appoint myself the benevolent dictator.
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    Everyone is brought/forced down to the same lowest common denominator
    This may well be the idea behind Labours plans, tis some what Fabian in its thinking.
    Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso


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    Quote Originally Posted by hughie View Post
    This may well be the idea behind Labours plans, tis some what Fabian in its thinking.
    The concept of bringing everyone down to the same common denominator is the so called foundation of the income tax system and also the original Medicare policy. Only the fat cats, read rich people, had private health care and this disadvantaged the rest of society.

    Unfortunately the income tax system hurts anyone doing huge amounts of overtime and the health system seems to have gone down hill since medicare came in. Coincidence possibly but it did cause a lot to drop private health and just sit on the public purse for their medical treatment.

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    As a devout capitalist, I don't care for such policies.

    But then I don't suppose they have heard of Pareto's Law.
    Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso


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