I wanna know if you're still with us OP?
another incredible shrinking thread 😮
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Yeah, still around.....if they bag me for having a sense of humour and stating the obvious....I'll message one of you that I've been carried off and gagged...lmao.. Hey Deb....I agree..it's nice not to have elleventy million right wing spam threads...=...In cyber space, nobody hears you scream....
I've voted ALP all my life but that's because I've been involved in IR and civil rights for a very long time and that kind of road doesn't gel well with LNP's user pay philosophy.
The reality is, we'll always have people in our community who simply can't afford to 'pay', so they don't get to 'use'.....when that kind of mentality includes access to vital services like health, food, heating, light, housing, then it's gone way too far. Hence, I can't support a party who makes it harder on the most vulnerable in our community, while refusing to tax the obscenely rich for a share of OUR mining wealth.
In my view, part of the disillusionment for ALP voters is that this ALP Govt is no different to the LNP when it comes to demonising & punishing minorities and/or having absolutely no vision.
For instance, right throughout Rural Australia, the unemployment is growing and the poverty is growing along with it. (Oh & lets not forget the subsequent crime)
Still, (Instead of creating new industries and with them new jobs) This Govt proposes to sell more of Australia (this time to China) so they can become the Food Bowl of Asia?...on our turf?
Where is the intelligence in that? Our Farmers could take that opportunity and turn it into a National Boom the likes of which we haven't seen since the rape and pillage of our mineral sector......when did we stop being the clever country?
I'm seriously thinking of hurling my vote to the Greens just to skew the power base of the other two, and that would be the first time I've ever considered that. They seem to be the lesser of the three evils this time around....and though they don't have enough support to take Govt...they can at least serve to keep the rest of the barstools honest.
It's this type of discussion however, that we need to be having...not the usual right vs left dung fight. I'm over that.
BTW...morning all !!
