The PM and Foreign Minister fighting to the death for their own self-interest on the international scene instead of governing? We should be outraged, but we have exhausted it all, so it’s just another day under Labor.
Just like Africans respond to corruption with resignation “That’s Africa”, we now respond to our mal-governance with “That’s Labor” and accept it as normal.
And we are slipping into the Stockholm Syndrome: our lives are controlled by a lying and hated Prime Minister but we are helpless, and we gradually gratefully accept and reward in the polls any morsel of kindness or sanity from her.
But giving back what your captor took away in the first place, is not kindness, or competence in the case of our government. Reversing the ban on exporting uranium to India, after they banned it for irrational ideological and anti-Howard reasons in the first place, is not a triumph of foreign policy. Attacking the Greens for living in fairyland is not strength after you got in bed with them and implemented their fairyland carbon policies. Getting tough on unions and getting Qantas back in the air by our PM is not competence, after your own FWA laws let the unions off the leash in the first place. And even in the unlikely case that they fix the illegal boat problem, that is no triumph if they were the ones that opened the flood gates in the first place in 2007.
No, all is not well in Australia, even should Labor mend a few of their disasters. As you go to work each day to secure your and your children’s future, every reform not undertaken by this government (and I don’t mean carbon tax), every billion dollars wantonly wasted, is not something we can simply do later, or just someone else’s money, so who cares. It is an investment not invested in our country, a lost opportunity taken away from your children’s future.
While you struggle to gain control over your future, this government is taking it away from you and is working hard to take away your very ability to know it from a free media or speak out against it. But it is subtly done and we won;t care until we lose it. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, but not while Masterchef is on.
I can only hope, come election time, we gain insight and courage enough to escape these our captors.
See you at Darling Harbour this Sunday/
RR
That takes us up to the next level. Great pstoing.
Wwhoever wrote this you are right on the mark.The fact that only 2 people have bothered to respond shows how hard it is going to be to shake the sheeple out of their apathy. Another broken promise ,there will be no change to the marriage act (under a government i lead).What does bob brown have on/over her that she is airing more greens policy, it would be so much easier if voting wasn`t complusory, as they would be at the footy or watching masterchef instead of marking x.
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A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned.
What we realy need to do here is be more active in making shure the government does what we tell it to do.
The carbon tax is a waste of Time,Money,Effort all it does is give them some more paperwork to fill out so they can keep the job and the life they are use to.
Dailyroach.
You might find the following Wall Street Journal piece interesting…
The editorial, titled “No Need to Panic About Global Warming,” was written and signed by 16 scientists who dispute global warming. The group claims “a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.”
The proof, the scientists say, is “the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now.” But they note many scientists are afraid to speak out against global warming for fear of retribution… In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, published a peer-reviewed article saying the recent warming is not unusual based on historical climate changes over the past 1,000 years. As a result, Dr. de Freitas endured demands he be fired from his editorial job and his university position. (He ultimately kept his university job.)
The reason for this pro-global warming world stance, according to the editorial, boils down to money and government control…
Alarmism over climate change is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, justifies taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and lures big donations to charitable foundations that promise to save the planet.