Retired infantry officer. Conservative by nature and politics; Happily married and father and grandfather of eight. Loves V8 powered Range Rovers, Golden Retrievers, good books and technology and think there should be open season on Greenies.
Born in the mid forties and overdue for servicing but most parts still work.
Wayne Swan
gilding the Lilly
Mr Swan said he knew self-funded retirees have had a tough time in the past few years.
”The retirees I chat to in my local community are really concerned about protecting our unique environment for their grandkids, and that means cutting carbon pollution,” he said. ”So the Gillard government’s financial help will mean retirees can do their bit to tackle climate change, while still looking after their budgets.”
Bullshit Wayne! About half of your electorate, myself including, don’t even want you as their member – you only got in on Green preferences and since then there has been a 3% swing against you.
The self funded retirees in Lilley that I talk to want you and your silly tax churn out of their lives. You are a dead man walking.
So the tax that will not fix the problem but will cost us more just to live will raise fuel by 6 cents a litre and all us self-funded retirees are going to be compensated by up to $760 a year for couples to help. But I bet that figure is to compensate us for all the increased costs that the non-problem saving tax will give us – not just fuel.
As soon as power companies are slugged for their products every thing will rise, not just fuel. What isn’t manufactured using electricity?
You are waffling Wayne and even your local rusted-on Lilly voters have an uneasy feeling in their gut about what you and the ALP are doing. The rest of us in Lilley, the majority, just want you gone.
You need to get out more and talk to a broader sample around town while you have the chance.
The Government
destroys an entire industry worth about $300 million a year and then offers the loosers $30 million to go away and be quiet.
Won’t work.
Gillard says there is no quick fix for the ALP’s huge stuff-up and it’s certainly true that offers from the government aren’t going to help any time soon. Some properties have tens of thousands of dollar fuel bills just to water their stock and others are paying more in monthly interest bills than the $5,000 immediate support offered.
A suggestion of maybe up to $20,000 later is not even going to pay the monthly fuel bills on some properties. Meanwhile the cost of meat drops across the nation as everyone tries to sell off their surplus beef previously allocated to Indonesia. This may be good news for families suffering from other ALP stuff-ups but not the beef producers.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said: ”I think that the cattle industry doesn’t want welfare, they want their trade back.” while the Greens advocate eliminating the entire industry.
Greens leader Bob Brown condemned the bailout, arguing the live export trade should be banned.
”It’s got the aim of resuming the slaughter in Indonesia of Australian livestock, and the Greens are the only party which doesn’t want to see that happen,” he said.
Now that’s a cavalier way of treating the livelihood of hundreds of workers and businesses involved in the $300 million trade. The Greens are the only party that doesn’t want live trade resumed because they don’t care about such things as livelihoods while it conflicts with their perfect unlivable world.
We are being badly governed for the minority and it’s not going to get better any time soon.
From the Australian Conservative;
Beef Central has an interesting letter from a live export industry stakeholder in response to the ABC Four Corners program last week:
I would like to have the same time … to show you the other side of our industry. To show you what is really going on. In Australia there used to be thing about “A Fair Go”. You have gone with images provided by one person followed up by your investigative journalist who spent a week in Indonesia.
If you are going to have a position on the live cattle export trade then you should
read the full response.
UPDATE
From Menzies House;
Cyndi Bakalian, a small business feed owner, wrote this letter to Julia Gillard, begging her to reconsider the rash decision to ban live exports – a decision that will destroy her family business, and force her employees into unemployment:
Read her letter
here
For the Labor Party, tobacco money is dirty money, but the Federal
Health Minister has been caught out seeking financial support from one of the nation’s top cigarette makers.
The ABC has obtained letters that show Nicola Roxon wrote to Philip Morris executives in 2005, inviting them to a $1,500-a-table fundraiser.
The event, featuring new MP Peter Garrett as the star attraction, was held a year after Mark Latham banned tobacco donations to the Labor Party.
Ms Roxon, who was then shadow attorney-general, signed off on the letters, saying she looked forward to the company’s “continuing support”.
No big deal but maybe the ALP will now shut up about the Coalition doing the same thing.
Hypocrites!
FEARS are escalating that the
Gillard government’s ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia will damage the country’s entire beef industry, with southern Australian farmers already reporting a drop in prices.
Domestic cattle producers are worried the 11,000 livestock stranded by the ban will flood the local market in coming months and cause a glut for all beef products. The Victorian Farmers Federation says prices for beef have already dropped by 10c a kilogram – or 5 per cent – in anticipation of this occurring, and stock agents have reported slow sales and a softening in consumer demand.
Another ALP “unintended consequences” coup.
Ludwig cancels contracts for six months and then demands the Meat & Livestock Asscn pay the farmers compo.
You caused the problem – you compensate them. A six month cancellation takes them into the wet season so it is effectively a twelve month cancellation.
Get your Green and PETA tossers vote some other way and stop stuffing honest workers around.
AN environmental
activist has locked himself inside a box at a New South Wales mine in a bid to disrupt coal production and attack efforts by resource giants to “dodge” a carbon tax.
I’ve just had a thought. Can we paint out the message, move the box out of sight and mind, put on extra external locks and just leave him there?
One less noise maker.
Obviously
4 Corners and PETA are now running our international trade as the Government leap in to kill the live cattle export business in response to a TV show.
Several hundred million dollars at risk of being lost to the industry but Senator Ludwig said he was confident the industry would bounce back before the end of the six-month ban.
Based on what?
I’m all for treating animals humanely but I don’t think our cattlemen should be fined 300 million dollars because people in another country don’t stun the cattle before slaughter. Given the chance, maybe we could’ve offered advice to the Indon companies and pushed to lift their standards within a certain time frame but the Government have jumped so quickly with their six month ban that everyone, Indons, cattlemen and our economy, are losers.
In my humle opinion the ALP are simply buying votes from radical Greenies that would never vote Coalition anyway.
To all those guys and their families about to loose their livelihood, be happy that it is being done for a good cause – re-election of the ALP.
If you want proof that a price on Carbon is ideologically based then the attendance of The Climate Institute, The Australian Conservation Foundation and Getup at rallies should set you straight.
Thirty years ago the same type of people were rallying against a looming Ice Age and before that we were being warned that we would all starve from over-population
As many as 8000 in attended the
Sydney rally while rallies were being held in most other capital cities as the second stage of the “Say Yes” campaign launched late last week by actors Cate Blanchett and Michael Caton.
Meanwhile, the rest of us, almost 30 million, went on with our lives working or relaxing with family.
OSAMA bin Laden offered resistance but was not armed when he was shot dead during a raid by a US special operations team on the compound where he lived in Pakistan for years.
Big deal – neither were the three thousand odd civilians killed in New York during 9/11.
I see no advantage in taking him to court where he would have a soap box to voice his hatred. The human rights lawyers would drag it out for years with the consequence of al-Qa’ida recruiting being the only winner.
I’m a bit surprised he was killed by a head shoot – I would have thought aiming for the centre of the seen mass could have produced a chest or gut/spinal shot that would have been more painful and time consuming, yet would still achieve the final deserved result.
More
gloating details
here.
UPDATE: It doesn’t take long;
Whats got more brains than Osama?
The wall behind him!
Apparently some of Bin Ladens family were killed in the shootuot. I guess this gives a new meaning to taking the bins out.
Starbucks has introduced a new coffee special – the Osama Bin Latte! It has a fluffy white head with two shots in it!
6 Irishmen have just drowned dancing on Bin Ladens grave
My mate’s girlfriend has called her g-spot ‘‘Osama’‘. She reckons it took him 10 years to find it, but when he did ….KABOOM!
All stolen from
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