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Senator Barnaby Joyce today criticised Ms Gillard’s Building Better Regional Citiesprogram which follows a "move forward, leave people behind approach".
While on Palm Island today Senator Barnaby Joyce said “It is with quite some sad amusement that we see the list of ‘regional cities’ and note the ones that are not on the list. This is from the same Labor government who couldn’t get the figures to add up on the school halls program”.
 
Here are some of Julia's "regional cities” that will be invited to bid for money to improve housing - Newcastle, Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast. Ms Gillard has said that, “Many have available land and community support for new development.” How much bigger do the people of the Gold Coast or Newcastle want to be?
“Geelong is a great city with a great footy team but I never knew it was a regional centre like Swan Hill is. Wollongong is in but Young, Forbes, Armidale and Moree are apparently not relevant. The Gold Coast is a great place but I never really thought of it as regional centre like Charters Towers, Roma, Emerald, Mareeba or Mt Isa. I do not know of one town away from the coast in Queensland that is going to get any of this rebadged money or any in the North West of Western Australia”.
“Does Mr Burke believe that after stating on the ABC’s Insiders program that it is to help the fly in- fly out workers that they are flying in and out of the Sunshine Coast from Brisbane?”
“The announcement of $200million is said to help build up to 15,000 homes. What sort of house do you build for $13,500?
As Julia moves forward more and more are finding themselves left behind.”
 
 
 
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# Lorikeet
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:15 PM
According to critics of Agenda 21, the government has signed us up to living in tiny but expensive high rise apartments along the railway lines.

The Brisbane railway line now goes to Robina on the Gold Coast. I guess they will just extend it a bit to service Tweed Heads. Other places which need a lot more infrastructure to be included in the main game will probably be left to rot.

I watched a film which showed where the railway lines and housing would be situated in the USA. If anyone lives off the beaten track, they will not be included. No doubt the government will sequester remote places for the animals or money grubbing corporations. There seemed to be heaps of open space available in which "wild animals" of either breed could prosper.

What kind of house can you build for $13,500? I'd say that's a dog house or kennel. I am told a shipping container costs $30,000.

Once Greenies have taken over completely, they will probably legalise bestiality and the procreation of hybrid human/animal species. Then when their 4-legged spouses get snappy and snarly, Greenies may retreat to the doghouse out the back, while furry creatures of anomalous pedigree laze about on the couches and beds.
# Simon Larrescy
Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:49 AM
Tent cities? $13,500 per tent, this sound's like labor's moving forward with their budgeting. Anyway, a tent is better then nothing.
# Lorikeet
Monday, July 26, 2010 4:57 PM
Simon:

A couple of years ago, I heard that there was a tent city "housing" 100,000 people in Paris. This just goes to show what the world is coming to.

I hope everyone tunes in to "A Current Affair" tonight to find out about numerous city people who are starving under a Labor government, whom the rest of us are now struggling to feed and clothe.
# Simon Larrescy
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:06 AM
Lorikeet, I'm serious a Tent is better then nothing. The money has all but run out. Worldwide... The World's Overpopulation is Greed's Curse! 4 million Australians is the sustainable human population figure! Achieveable by 2110 in 100years of de-populating. But we won't achieve this... We will continue to burying the issues of nature with our greed for more and more. THIS IS THE WAY OF LIFE. The 4 million figure is just the approx. population figure of Australia in 1901. Although 300,000 Aborigines did live in subsistence, before Industrialise/Modern Times Society hit the shores and transformed the continent to what we know it today. Through History, Man's Technological advances continue to be expolited by Greed. But when the current advances, don't advance anymore, is this the time to say, enough, is enough?
# Lorikeet
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:13 PM
Simon:

Oh dear, it looks like you've been listening to idiots from The Greens or possibly those mad feminazis from Sustainable Population Australia.

So you think we can only sustain a population of 4 million, the population of Australia 110 years ago.

We currently have a population of around 22 million. The CSIRO said we can easily feed 60 million people, even in drought conditions.

Now let's look at money. You say it has all but run out. The fact is that some countries (such as Greece) have been broken financially due to the empowerment of banks and the various corporations they own.

From my individual research, I have found that getting both members of a couple out to work has given them a greater ability to borrow money and rack up credit card debt. Yes, it has made them greedy and the banks have pounced on them according to the plan.

And where did the borrowed money come from? Probably from superannuation, which was made compulsory for everyone under Paul Keating (Labor).

The reason there is such a huge interest rate paid by the consumer on credit card debt is because the banks have factored in bad debt from other customers, making it a win/win situation for themselves and a lose/lose situation for you.

Now the Labor government wants employers to contribute 12% to superannuation (up from 9%).

It is my belief that Gough Whitlam (Labor) got all of the mothers out to work to disempower unions and hold wages down. This is what happens when you have a glut of workers competing for jobs.

Even people who have come here as refugees a few years ago seem to know that people are being deceived by a dangerous doomsday cult using dogma associated with a Financial Climate Change.

You said that overpopulation is greed's curse. I would say that it worked the other way around. Even with a Baby Bonus in place, the current birth rate of 1.9 children per couple is still below Zero Population Growth.

I would say that people having more money from double incomes and also access to good contraception is the enemy of population. It has also led to the empowerment of the banks who are constantly robbing us.

So you think a bank could go broke? Don't worry, you're not alone. I had to ask the same of The Greens candidate for the Seat of Brisbane, Andrew Bartlett, who seems to think that the banks didn't simply steal 20% of our superannuation.
# Lorikeet
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:49 PM
Simon:

Yes, a tent is better than nothing, but the only times I've heard that tents were in use were:

1. At the Boy Scouts' Jamboree.

2. To accommodate and isolate large numbers of people suffering from Bubonic Plague in the RNA showgrounds, directly across from the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

My main experience of tents has been heavy downpours of rain, and the unwanted company of slithering creatures - definitely 4th world accommodation.
# Lorikeet
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:56 PM
Simon:

Do you think we should regress into the Stone Age and live like the aborigines did?

I don't think we will cease to advance in the future. We can easily find ways to clean up the environment a bit, make better use of resources, without being ripped off using a carbon trading scheme.

I suggest you tune in to "Landline" at midday on Sundays on the ABC. There is quite a lot to learn about practices already in place across a variety of areas including agriculture, animal husbandry and alternative fuels - also farming methods which use far less artificial fertiliser.

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