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@tezza2844 wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
The whole idea was simply dreamt up as a vote buying excercise. Labor voters loved it and so the Liberals had to come up with a "me too plan' or risk losing an election to voters who,s main interest was playing computer games or watching movies on their big screen tellies from Mr. Harvey.
The whole thing has just been plain dumb from start to finish.
Labors original idea was looking at a concept for the long term future as does the rest of the world, unfortunately the Liberal idea of the future is the next election
In fairness, you are probably right about this part of your statement. Not all politicians are by nature bad people ( even Labor ones ....
) Many people go into politics out of a genuine desire to serve their communities and try to make long term changes for the better.
Unfortunately once they get entrenched in the party system a lot of that goes out the window and the ruthless, cynical, political games set in. Virtually all politicians, regardless of colour begin to only concentrate on the next election cycle and getting re-elected.
Thats why we got an NBN that was based on running cables to everyones television and computer instead of the much better but much less sexy satelite technology. The voters can see the trucks rolling down the street and get the knock on the door from the NBN technician asking where you want your connection box put. Its tangible and in your face.
A satelite is invisible, unseen, unheard and unknown...................... It might be vastly superior ( and cheaper ) in the long run, but theres no votes in it.
