Stoney wrote:I would like to comment Homer, but I know what is coming, so yeah I love big brother, I LOVE big brother.
Homer wrote:G'Day Fella's,
Here is a link to yet another example of a Socialist State experiment............ that also went belly up.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program ... -of-a-nazi
D'oh!
Homer
bigrich wrote:To quote a famous American, (Charlie brown) Good grief ! While events in the US concern me, I think the focus of all Australians should be on fixing all the stuffed up stuff going on here. Got me stumped as to why we give lots of foreign aid to some countries when regional Australia could do with help. We’ve hardly had any major national building projects in god knows how long cause politicians are only worried about opinion polls for their term in office. Queenslanders will know how Dangerous the Bruce highway is. What about diverting flood water inland for irrigation in northern Queensland ? They’ve Only been talking about that for 50 years . I wish fish would bite as well as some of you guys do on the lefty/righty thing. Okay, rant over. Going to the range to test some reloading
Ziad wrote:The second part of the aid is basically bribery, yes australia as a country spends money to bribe rulers of other countries. Wait now please don't get on your high horse and say how dare we do that. But reality is, pol are corrupt and if you close your eyes doesn't make em honest.
And call it bribe or foreign aid its is needed.
Daddybang wrote:Ziad wrote:The second part of the aid is basically bribery, yes australia as a country spends money to bribe rulers of other countries. Wait now please don't get on your high horse and say how dare we do that. But reality is, pol are corrupt and if you close your eyes doesn't make em honest.
And call it bribe or foreign aid its is needed.
So we should pour more money into a (as you've correctly stated) corrupt system instead of saying enough and putting that money into things such as the manufacturing industry that we used to have or into the people of this country.
And yes I read the link but how many of the exporters that are profitting are actually Australian companies and how much of that $7 odd actually go in our coffers ??
I understand that under the current system we have little choice but I reckon the system needs to change.
Gaznazdiak wrote:You're right about the need for our system to change DB.
Think of the savings if we weren't paying retired politicians a massive pension to fund them while they make a fortune in the private sector working for vested interests. The same vested interests they screwed us over to help while in power.
Every former PM sucks up around $1 million each per year,.
We have politicians who have been in both state and federal politics collecting 2 fecking pensions.
We have a disgraced former governor general found guilty of aiding paedophiles who not only costs the taxpayer $357,000 per year for his pension, but spent over $250,000 last year alone for "office and travel expenses".
These human ticks do nothing but drain tax dollars into their already inflated bank accounts and produce nothing.
Daddybang wrote:I understand that under the current system we have little choice but I reckon the system needs to change.