Remember the floods we had during January, well there are still many people out there waiting for the Insurance Companies to pay up. In many case people are living in tents, cars and where possible in what remains of their houses.

One lady had to wait 7 months before they came to visit her just to see what the problem was.

They are quick to take our money but slow to pay out, if you are lucky enough to be paid.

Shame on the lot of you.

Then today they have also announced that it will create 31,000 jobs.

I guess they will be government bureaucrats who are about to set up a paper trail that will just go round and around and around,  as is normal with all new government taxes.

 While we the general public will be the big loser as our pockets are systematically drained, allowing big business and the government to become richer.

This in the Governments case is a little sad, as the Labor party has never been able to hang on to their money and run in the black.

Terry

I’ve just had a thought. If she were taken to court and given a prison sentence, it’s the prisons responsibility to keep its prisoners alive no matter what the cost.

Are you thinking what I am, gee that would put the cat amongst the pigeons.

And I’m wondering what their response would be?

Terry

Whenever any of our citizens are traveling around the world and get into trouble, be it stranded with no money, being arrested for a crime, or trapped by some disaster, our Government officials in the local Embassies are by law compelled, quite rightfully so, to help these people in any way they can, and in some cases at great cost to our government.

However, I saw a young lady from Victoria on the television a few months ago who was dying of a very rare disease, and that to save her life she required some wonder drug that cost around $70,000.00 a year as treatment. What the young lady required was for the government to help her with the cost.

Suddenly the rules have changed and she was not given any financial help. It was left up to her to find the money or Die. What a choice and burden to place upon a young person.

The television article went on to say that local people were trying to raise enough money so that she could get to America where its hope she can be treated and saved.

At the end of the day I’m wondering if these so called people who are elected into government to serve us the people, are just a load of heartless bastards.

Terry

However, earlier in his administration he promised the people of America that he would closed down ‘Guantanamo Bay’ where Americans were depriving others of their human rights

A case of one law for some and another law for others.

Sadly, most world leaders seem to have forgotten that good leaders lead by example.

Well we all know that he was correct and to his credit just like he said he was able to immediately activate rescue plans for the people of Brisbane, and fair credit to him for what he did.

However, it now seems that Anna Bligh is taking all the credit, when all she did was to act on information her advisors gave her. In fact had it been you or I in her position we would have been able to put the same plans into action, as we would have been given the same information from the government advisors.  I have to also add that she still went on her holidays. When she took over the reins at State government level Campbell was way ahead of her.

When our future generations read the history of the event, I’m sure that Campbell Newman will be remembered as the main instigator of the city’s rescue effort.

While after another expected possibly ten year drought that will eventually happen, Anna Bight will be remembered as the person who allowed the gas mining companies in the state to pollute with toxic waste our vast underground natural water supply rendering it un-drinkable.

Terry

We were constantly fed deliberate miss information while they deregulated our industries, being told that we would be better off as it would lead to competition. What a load of CRAP, we all know that it led to massive price increases, while our wages never kept up with what it cost us to run the average house hold.

One of these lies was the selling off of the power industry (Electricity).  We are now being told that during the next five years the price each house hold will have to pay will double. However it’s a good bet that our wages will never rice to keep up with it. So how are many of the households going to be able to cope? I could also add to this list the Water industry, same lie, we will all be better off, NO they are better off, once again we now face very large price hikes in the near future.

Not to mention what’s happened in the Banking and Petrol industries. Every time we start asking questions we are told that they will look into it, yeah yeah and pigs will fly. Nothing has or ever will be done.

ALL Politian’s are only in the job to milk it to the maximum for their own benefit, i.e. to try and serve as many years as possible for the massive pensions that the job attracts, and once they leave government  they are allowed to receive that pension straight away, after passing laws that prevent Joe Public the same  privilege. No, we have to wait until we retire, the same should apply to them. You don’t have a happy country unless everybody are treated the same. One rule equals one People.

It’s not that we can vote with our feet at the polling booth, what’s the point both parties are treating us the same.  And we can’t form another party to make changes.

Tony Abbott and his joint party slush fund saw to that when they successfully committed Pauline Hanson to prison, to prevent her from forming a new party and to run for government. It proves she was a direct threat to them, and that she might have been able to make changes. As for Joe Public trying to form a party and make changes, there’s not a chance.

However, in light of what’s happening around the world today in Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya, its being proven that people power is starting to have a voice and can achieve change.

It could be a warning to our Politian’s to start doing the job they were elected to do i.e. to look after the people they represent, or start looking over their shoulders.

Terry

I’m not blaming the police as there are just not enough of them to go around. Although that’s another problem. However, being an ex serviceman and having served in a few countries around the world, I’ve witnessed a far better way of dealing with Looters and that’s to shoot them on sight.  To my way of thinking this helps the community in a couple of different ways, because A ) it gets rid of people that most believe do not contribute to the community in any way what so ever,  B) they can sleep a little easier at nights and C) at least their property will be safer during the next disaster.

Now watch the do godders come out of the wood work slamming me for what I have just written. Telling us that they are as good as you and I, that they are good in tensioned people who just happen to come from a broken home (where have I heard all that before). They might be as good as the do-gooder, but they sure as hell are not as good as the average citizen.

The only time I would agree with people breaking into premises for food is after they have not been helped with aid after a few days. But during Cyclone Yasi, up in Townsville they were looting while the storm was still raging around them.

A member of my family has a relation who owns a Café on the Townsville water front and luckily it came through the storm completely untouched. Image the relieve on the owners face to hear the news.

Only to be told the bad news a couple of days later that Looters had smashed the front windows of the Café and made off with all the food that was stored there.

Apparently while most people in Townsville were not allowed to leave their homes and move around the town during the first day after the storm.  The looters seem to have had a free hand.

Why don’t they declare Military Rule and shoot them, the only thing they contribute to society is heart break and stress.

If the government says they can’t afford to, I’m sure a passing of the hat would soon be filled, to pay for the bullets.

Photo taken from <www.military-today.com>

Many times I felt sorry and upset after watching on Television other peoples miss fortunes, as their houses were swamped and destroyed by flood water. But I guess it’s a price we have to pay knowing that our forefathers built many of Queensland towns on the banks of river.  Unfortunately, in the end we have to expect floods as a way of life at some time in our life time.

Although after the devastating 1974 Brisbane flood, you would have thought that our State and Federal governments would have put in place a few laws and recommendations to stop a disaster like the 1974 one from ever happening again.

Well you would be wrong, all they did was to use the 1974 level as a high level marker and as long as you built just above that line you were fine. Wrongly believing that no future flood would reach that level.

Well Mother Nature has a way of biting us in the bum a few years further down the track, by dumping a little more rain on us. They must have been naive to think that the 74 flood was the highest amount of rain we would ever receive.

So now once again a vast amount of the city will have to be rebuild, but who will pay??

Well that’s becoming the topic of conversation right around Australia.

When the Labor party took over from John Howard he left a very very large sum of money stashed away for a rainy day (excuse the pun). However the Labor government soon blew that lot with crazy un-thought out schemes, like roof insulation for all, that was abused by many and in some cases so badly managed that a few people were electrocuted and died. Schools had facilities built for them that they did not want, and were unable to divert the money into projects they did want. However, the Government has tried to justify all their spending as Australia fought its way out of a recession.

Well the end result is that the wallet is now empty and so both the Federal and State governments now want to charge us all a levy. I always thought we had one wasn’t it called Income Tax. (And that’s another subject to be blogged about later).

They are always trying to Conn us that we are one of the lowest nations paying income tax. Well I’ve lived in a couple of other counties and they are once again telling the country porky pies (lies). They have fiddled the books to change the wording on some items that I strongly believe are taxes, but they now call them levy’s. Then there is the case of GST being charge on GST, can’t see how that one’s even legal let alone that they are still being allowed to carry on charging it.

Problem 1 how long will the levy be on us, if it’s like other things the government brings in, it will be many many years before it’s taken off. I would not mind betting that it will stay on as a permanent levy to help for future disasters. Funny how Howard managed to put aside for these disasters without the use of a levy.

And before you ask no I’m not a member of any particular party. But I doubt I’ll see good government in my life time. The only way I can see that we might have a chance is to change the government completely, but how the hell can we do that. Pauline Hansen proved that nobody will ever be able to form a new party to try and make changes. Tony Abbott and his slush fund that was financed by both major parties will see to all that.

I’ve often wonder if Abbott ever declared it to the Taxation office?