KAEP “Col,

So, you must have got your seeing-eye-dog to look that crap up then?

In the real world, Col……..”

Why?

Do you presume that simply because I have skills which, obviously extend beyond your comprehension ,that I need assistance?

I would note, I have lived in the “Real World” for many years.

I know that what government can do is, at best less than most of us would want or demand or expect if we were “in power” ourselves. Hence, I vote for government which is going to leave me alone to make my own decisions rather than a bunch of socialist tossers who want to make the decisions for me.

I doubt you would do better than our present government but, if you feel so strong about it, I suggest you put your money where your mouth is and stand for public office, although I think you will find “failure” is a difficult mantle, for one with so few inherent skills, to wear.

Rea 6

It is so timely that Professor Bader has made mention of a rising corporate class that to a retired farming director is really nothing new, except that with the stupendous advances in modern electronic communication, including computerised accounting, etc, we could wonder whether we could be facing a kind of social imbalance in the future, meanig that with so many budding right-wing advisers coming along, we could find ourselves with too many chiefs and not enough Indians trying to run the show.

Aged farmers can relate how a lack of telephones in 1929 before the onset of the Great Depression, when grain after being delivered was sold either by letter, or a drive into the nearest town to use a public phone. International companies like Bunge and Dreyfus made many a financial kill as prices fell from 6/8 shillings down to 1/8 a bushell. However, most of the kills were made as prices like shares today fluctuated over around 18 months, Dreyfus and Bunge like Jewish woolbuyerrs believing it was their entreprenerial right not to mention a price rise to a potential customer, even though he or she lacked a private phone.

Thus the cry went around the districts never to trust Big Biz, as the cry went worldwide never to trust the middle-men, some callimg them parasites along with smart-arse advisers who fed off the ignorant cockie.

The point is are these new middle-men today the same breed as those back in yesterday - ready to con the ignorant or those who could not even afford a home phone. As Bunge and Dreyfus are still in the grain buying game along with Cargills, and Chicago being still the headquarters of these corporates, how much of an eye is kept on these now global companies, seeing that philosophical courses in our WA Murdoch School of Humanities deal with dishonesty in corporatism as well as in smaller businesses.

Pert of the dialogue is how profits from grain subsidies in the huge American MidWest go more to pay Big-Biz lobby groups, than to the ordinary simple farmers.

It is hoped, therefore, that these budding corporationists, now a big part of our nouve riche, are more honest than those the farmers had experience with in the Great Depression, in Australia causing farmers en masse to turn agrarian social to form co-operative protective boards similar to the Aussie wheat-marketing single-desk still well alive today.

With Big Biz or corporatism obviously a major part of today’s right-wing business acumen, and with John Howard so eager when he joined George W’ in the Bi-Lateral Trade Agreement, Professor Beder might give us a few clues about how it has weakened our bio-custom laws. The culprit in question happened to be Brazil which was allowed to land a shipment of carcase beef into NSW, when the country had already been banned over such, owing to foot and mouth disease - and all revealed on video per SBS Dateline compered by George Negus, obviously making our beef and mutton breeders very upset, especially as it seemed our Federal Government was able to hush it down in the media.

Finally, it is so interesting politically that a gutless Labor has never made a mention of something so dangerous to our export trade, that it might have begun a case for the impeachment of our PM, Johnny Howard

From Bob The Builder to Bob The Betrayer

Carr accuses Iemma of being soft for opening funnel roads.

"I wouldn't have done it," Mr Carr told a Privatisation and Competitive Sourcing Committee of the American Bar Association in Washington on Thursday.

"I'm afraid it's going to cost the state's taxpayers a lot of money," he said, referring to the likely lawsuits over the road closures. "If the Government had held firm the thing would have gone away. Instead they have reignited the issue."
His candid remarks to a group of about 20 executives were reported in the online magazine Tollroadsnews.com.

The website said Mr Carr described the political environment surrounding the tunnel as being akin to when sharks get in a frenzy with blood in the water.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/you-stuffed-up-bob-tells-morris/2006/06/17/1149964751491.html

Comment:
How Low can he go? If ex-Premiers have such little respect for the voters in NSW then there must be a reason. He's sold us out!

Bushbred, your posts raise the question as to what is worse for
farmers, the greed of traders or the ineptitude of what often
comes with monopolies.

I've been following the story of an Indian wheat deal which
AWB signed, with a nil tolerance for certain diseased grains.
Well of course the Indians only have to find one single grain
in a whole boatload and it becomes a disaster. They can create
merry hell for the seller, with claims for discounts, refusal
of boatloads of grain etc, which it seems is what happenend.

How much such seemingly bad deals cost growers, is anyones
guess.

Likewise lamb exports were a Govt monopoly for years in WA,
so few invested in sheep and lamb processing. We are still
paying a price for that, with WA prices well behind the
Eastern States, year after year. Hopefully a few more
efficient ES exporters will set up shop here soon, to create
some urgently needed competition. Govt red tape is what is holding
alot of them up, once again another monopoly. So its a two
edged sword as to what really works best