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Lights off: Part I : Comments

By Kellie Tranter, published 7/1/2011

New South Wales and electricity privatisation - what is behind it.

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Australia is NOT a land of infinite opportunity, it is a land of harsh extremes.

The existing NSW power stations and grid infrastructure were gouged out of people's lives and pockets to build a better life for themselves.

I estimate the average cost per person in NSW is a minimum of $300,000 to provide adequate infrastructure for 1980's population levels. And that does not represent the individual hardships, equal to anything new migrants have faced in the turbulent years leading up to the 80's.

It was all worth it till Nick Greiner came along and INCORPORATED all that blood, sweat, tears and civil capital money into a political mandate to grow NSW's tax base by immigration. Since then, LABOR party bloody minded meanness has refined that concept:

Politicians form Carr onwards have increased migration and tax takes with no commensurable increase in any infrastructure. We still have the same police numbers that we had in the 70's and power stations are just as antiquated. They are utterly effete to handle the population that infrestructure was meant for plus the needs of mindless hordes of aspirational migrants on a FREE ticket to ride.

The ONLY remedy is to Make the migrants pay their $300,000 per person infrastructure fee to come to NSW, either upfront or as a special ongoing tax. Then to use those funds to buil comensurable infrastructure in NSW.

To make existing citizens of NSW pay for basic infrastructure all over again and for migrant peoples who would kick them in the street if they were down, is an INJUSTICE that will haunt Macqaurie street and its lofty inhabitants till JUSTICE is done.
Posted by KAEP, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 11:53:02 AM
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