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Bad ideas as good ideas applied badly : Comments

By David Elson, published 11/10/2011

Just because they do it overseas doesn't mean we should follow suit, nor that we shouldn't.

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Goods rail doesn't have to be fast, all you need is the infrastructure to carry the weight, which is the bit that is lacking. HSR and goods rail can not be two of the same.
Posted by 579, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 2:29:33 PM
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@ HasBeen,

It's worth noting that the duty of the public service is to implement the will of elective respresentatives of the people (aka Government), whatever our personal opinion on specific policy matters might be.

So dont be too hard on us!

Cheers,
Dave
Posted by Dave Elson, Friday, 14 October 2011 2:45:01 PM
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David, it seems to me the classic example of a bad idea for seemingly good reasons is the Feminist makever of this and other Western nations. It has been of great benefit to large Corporates seeking to increase their turnover, since it has created "money for nothing" in that work that used to be done as a general good - household services, childcare, care of aged or infirm relatives - to be turned into an economic activity that has to be directly paid for, and requires businesses to provide.

It has lead to the decline of the family unit, to the point that now the most common environment for children to experience is that of the "single-mother" household. Moreover, few women have any choice any more about whether they work or not. As a result, there has to be enormous expenditure of public money to pay for them to take time off to fulfil their "mere" biological needs.

On top of that, when they decide they want to have children, they're finding it increasingly difficult to find men willing to inseminate them.

Even more worryingly, this is peacetime, not a time of crisis caused by war. During the last major war we relied on the unmobilised female workforce to "keep the home fires burning" by doing work that men would normally do. What do we do when our women are all working already? Where's the buffer? Unbuffered systems fail catastrophically.

The folly of the NBN and the carbon tax are tiny by comparison
Posted by Antiseptic, Sunday, 16 October 2011 5:02:12 AM
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