Gday Everybody, a little history lesson for you.

Before the GFC of 2008, the SM crash of 1987 followed by the 1989/90 recession we had to have, the Great Depression of the early 1930's following the SM crash of 1929, there was in the land of OZ, the Depression of the 1890's. Which saw among other things, along the way, the shearers strike & formation of the ALP.

What caused it? Well most of the blame can in fact be sheeted home to a drought across all of central OZ, early on in the 1890's & even earlier still in the late 1880's. The mouth of the Mighty River Murray stopped flowing, no irrigation, no dams or weirs or Snowy River Scheme, just not enough water in the system naturally, from rainfall in the catchment area.

Farming activity was massively curtailed by the drought & river boat transportation, as well.

The drought eventually was broken by the return of rainfall, according to the cyclical weather patterns.

This however is different. We are talking here about the permanent cessation of at least some farming activity in the "Food Bowl of OZ".

Bear in mind also that the entire, world economy including China is about to go into GFC series 2, or "Double Dip" Recession. Where do they get that "Double Dip Recession" idea from anyway, there never were any "Green Shoots" in the US or any other economy for that matter.

Care to Re think anything, Loony, Lefties? Or are you determined to press ahead with your plans for Economic Sabotage in the "Land of OZ"?

When your religion teaches man at the bottom of the food chain everything always degenerates to the lowest common denominator, Scum, dirtbag, slease, monkey, Homer Simpson.
When the religion teaches Truth, Man is elevated to the top of the food chain great advances in medicine, food production, and all other areas of life on Planet Earth occur. If you chose a Godless life don't blame God when everything collapses. With rights come responsibilities. Our responsibility is to tend Gods great garden. The greens believe man is the cause of all the problems, Global warming, drought, corruption, greed, so he must be at the bottom of the order, so we shut up the rivers, the forests, the factories, and stop all development and job creation and go back to a world of pitiful hunter gatherers and redistribute the wealth through taxes. Degenerate to the lowest common denominator. Never let the truth get in the road of a good story.

Richie, Richie, Richie.

If man kills off the only life support systems that allows you to live in your" as you say" god made the Eden you all are so proud of making your money from, and wouldn't it be fair to say that If I have a friend that's religious, And I just got off the phone with one, and he said to me to tell you that "GOD Made HIM to look after his world that he made for all his children/us" Well I might introduce you two brothers and I'll be sitting right there to see what a green god-brother and a non green-brother has to say. I will pay money to hear the both of you. SMILE

Noah, by gods orders, was told to take two of everything, which would be a very neat trick by the way, 'and I get the basic understanding that he saw this as a very high priority, ( even thou he could whip a new world up in six days or so) and that my friend,is how it see it......... mate! GOD sounds like a greeny to me buddy. SMILE. Or maybe he made the greeny god person, just to stop the not so greeny god persons from going out of control.

Please Richie! Tell me whats the go.

"The greens believe man is the cause of all the problems, Global warming, drought, corruption, greed,............AND? smile.

" Well! its your GOD.

Well? tell us what he said when it comes to taking responsibility of his great gift?

Did he say" heres a perfectly good planet, go and screw it! and when the 4 horsemen come back,( rollie eyes ) I'll beam all you followers up, and she'll be right mate! I'll fix it and just put all you good people back, and we'll play it again SAM.

Ok. Heres the mail. The coming for Christ is just around the corner, OK! Lets say, I'll get back to you at around 2015 or so and we will see if your right.

Hey! Iam open minded.

smile.

TTM<

He summed it up very neatly with "Put God first and love one another."

Why were so many water allocations handed out on a dying river system in the first place. But what's done is done - what for the future.

There is a lot of histrionics and exagerations in reaction to this proposal and many rural dwellers also believe the river system is dying and that governments are failing to act - just speak to the people in the Coorong and the mouth of the Murray.

How do we save a river system?

This is an opportunity for governments to build regional areas by means other than water intensive crops and decentralise some of the functions of government and create incentives for business in regional areas by a VFT and other infrastructure.

It is not in anyone's interest especially those rural residents most affected to create ghost towns in the bush. Continuing to populate highly arable areas along the coast and hinterland is also a waste of good arable land where there are higher rainfalls such as the North Coast of NSW, South Coast and the like.

Governments may have to compensate farmers or small/medium businesses in the event of the worst case, after all they pay out enough on corporate welfare. But it should not have to come to that. The human impact will only be severe if there are no other mechanisms used to keep those towns alive.

Surely with all broad consultation we can come up with something, but one things is for sure if we let the river system down we all lose.

TTM The 21 may 2011 is the go. Thats when it happens. Richie knows that.
Lets have a look at the whole river not just one region.
More weirs and locks, Taking water away from food is a stupid idea, even if some of that food is drinkable. God likes a drop of red you no.
This idea was never going to work, A much broader look is in order.