I think it is clear that Labor has no interest in delivering economic or social benefits to the general community. They just want to keep allowing huge corporations to rip off both government and citizens, according to the following equation.

Taxpayers' Money + Citizens' Hard Earned Cash = Corporate Rule + Loss of National Sovereignty.

Or how about this one?

Huge Government Borrowings + Fiscal Irresponsibility = Burgeoning Foreign Debt + Economic Collapse + Corporate Rule + Loss of Superannuation.

Unfortunately I didn't receive the flyer which advertised a recent meeting between Unitywater and ratepayers.

I am told that Jim Soorley (former Lord Mayor of Brisbane and Chairman of Unitywater) coldly informed the people that they had had access to free water for MUCH TOO LONG i.e. been spoiled in the past! To think that he used to be a Roman Catholic priest! (I guess he must have become much too used to fleecing the flock on Sundays.)

If I had been at that meeting, I think I would have yelled out: "Water used to fall free from the sky!" But I'm told a number of residents vented their wrath at the microphone. Good on them!

Under a Labor government, we can expect the ongoing empowerment of large corporations, with taxpayers' money being spent on infrastructure, everyone being ripped off on an individual basis, and the profits NOT GOING INTO GOVERNMENT COFFERS.

Last night on "Stateline", some money grubbing bureaucrat was asking for a bond to be paid for Aged Care. He also wanted people to contribute to an Old Age Fund or sacrifice part of their superannuation to Aged Care, possibly both. (Does he not know that taxpayers sacrificed 20% of their superannuation fairly recently??? Short memory, I suppose. Next he will claim he has dementia.)

I think the people have NO INTEREST in further empowering large corporations. As it is, they are allowed to use OUR superannuation to empower themselves financially, while raking in mountains of money via collection of credit card debt.

Our hospitals and schools have been deliberately allowed to run down for the express purpose of handing both operations over to a large banking corporation.

Has anybody given any thought to how Labor intends to house the homeless? If not, here's a little clue. Now about your rental property .....

To end on a happier note, when I was out yesterday, a very angry woman said she is really unhappy with the way Senator Barnaby Joyce is being treated by the media. While the major parties (particularly Labor) are receiving most of the coverage, all Barnaby gets is the criticism.

Well, I think this sad situation has now backfired on Labor. I'm sure the angry woman used to be a Labor supporter.

Now I'm sure far more people want to listen to Barnaby and his serious concerns as to the fate of our farmers, small business people and citizens, as we did last night when he appeared on the ABC.

If everyone spreads the word when they go out, or via blogs, soon people will get the message and once the penny drops, they will repeat what they have heard to everyone they know. Remember, bad news spreads fast!

Let us all say "No" to a Carbon Trading Scheme and the general empowerment of banks and other large corporations.

Let us say "No" to deliberate fiscal bungling, money wasting programs and corporate "gifts", while our government goes broke.

Let us make it known that we don't want to put up with the Communist Queen any more. Lies flow freely from her mouth, just as they did from the mouth of Anna Bligh, right before she kicked angry rail and port workers in the guts, along with the rest of the community.

Sorry, I made a bit of a mistake here.

The money grubbing bureaucrat wanted a Bond for High Care. There is already a bond being collected for Low Care, and the establishments charging the most monumental bonds are those with a banking corporation as a silent partner i.e. their name doesn't appear on the building or the invoices.

I think this should change, and the rents and bonds they can charge should be capped.

I have asked Graham Young to amend his on-line opinion poll options. This is because he has "Democrats" as a voting option, when there are at least 4 democratic parties including Australian Democrats (which was the group he meant), Liberal Democrats, Christian Democrats and Democratic Labor Party.

He linked me to the website of Australian Democrats, and it seems that they are all for a Bond on High Care, and taxing the church sector in every area of commercial operation. It even said that aged care was not profitable enough To my knowledge, aged care is meant to be NOT FOR PROFIT.

I should probably send them an email pointing this out, along with the fact that churches charge lower bonds for Aged Care, and some of the proceeds from their "operation" go towards humanitarian endeavours. I certainly don't want The Macquarie Group taking over the whole of Aged Care for the benefit of their own global bank!

I read a couple of their other policies, by which time I concluded they were another group of recidivist, corporate neo-communists, not worthy of our attention.

I think Graham Young might also be wise to include other small parties in his polls, such as the Citizens' Electoral Council. I would also like to see Nationals separated from Liberals instead of "Coalition". Then Nationals may look better on his graph.

feed://www.mtr1377.com.au/podcasts/stevevizard/stevevizard.xml


Hit the link and scroll down to July 26 for Barnaby talking to Steve Vizard.

Barnaby on immigration policy:

” ….. if they are coming in, what we need is to make sure that we give them the encouragement to go into the regional areas. We need …. Out in regional Australia we want more people. So if these people are coming in …. And down in Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane YOU DON’T. So here we have something we can all agree on. We want them. You don’t want them. So lets come up with the policies that get them inland.”

Where is Barnaby coming from here? What does he mean by “want” I would say he’s not in the least talking about urban elite attitude. Rich taxeaters in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and especially Canberra want huge numbers of migrants to underwrite their big spending fantasies, and to pay for their (by and large) useless jobs. Barnaby is looking at things from a strategic and an infrastructure perspective, in keeping with his ability to get quickly across the complexities of his new job.

Its all very nice here in Sydney to get all these promises of massively expensive infrastructure projects, where we spend billions and billions for a rail link between Epping and Paramatta. Epping and Chatswood. But where does this all end? And of course putting all your infrastructure eggs into these coastal towns like Sydney and Melbourne make us as vulnerable to destruction as Carthage.

We can do so much more with word-class, yet modest infrastructure projects in these small towns. A new bridge here. A small container-capable port there. A few better roads, rail upgrades and short tunnels. These are projects that are less likely to lead to cost overuns and white elephants.

If infrastructure is going to be socialist (I’ve given up for the time being in trying to convince people of a working free enterprise model) then lets do things in a smart way. Lets start sprucing up the regional infrastructure. After all thats where we will have to run too if we cannot defend the coast.

Actually I like it now that Barnaby is our infrastructure guy. Hockey just basically has to commit to getting in surplus as fast as possible. If he is totally committed to doing that (and getting the debts that Kevin foisted on us, paid off quickly,) that comes under the heading of “good enough.” Infrastructure probably requires a lot more intellectual ability. Its a tough gig, and thats why Tony may have wimped out, but accidentally done the right thing, by kicking Barnaby out of finance, and giving him a job that for which few others have the necessary intellectual capacity.

Hopefully “encouragement” means more of the infrastructure spending pie, and regional tax exemptions. Since nothing good ever comes from outright subsidies. As well the regional impetus could be built into many visa categories. Making it easier to get a student or a work Visa, away from these top-heavy cities.

Perhaps if you are the most desirable immigrant you could easily choose the big cities. But most people, should they want to get near the front of the queue, could volunteer to restrict themselves to the smaller towns and cities. “Encouragement” could also come down to charging for clogged up infrastructure in the big cities in peak-time. In line with one of the Ken Henry recommendations.

Graeme Bird:

I don't think the government is going to do anything much in regional Australia, such as building tunnels, buildings and roads.

They will wait until big corporations take over the land altogether, and then bring in plenty of slave labour from third world nations, for them to use and abuse.

Sorry, I meant tunnels, bridges and roads.

Today I saw Bob Brown do the National Press Club address. He made plenty of promises which sounded good, especially for the young, but I think we must remember that he is a recidivist communist who will tax us all to the eyeballs with a Carbon Trading Scheme.

He will corporatise our schools and hospitals, and legalise and encourage bad behaviours that our parents all told us were wrong. He will make minced meat out of the Age Pyramid, and take the prime beef out of our diets.

Trees and animal will flourish, while human beings get a raw deal comprising:

1. A tiny house.
2. A high carbohydrate/low protein diet to keep us compliant.
3. Terrible wages and working conditions.
4. A theft of wealth, no matter how insignificant.
5. Communism replacing democratic process.