Some interesting comments Conrad.
We do need to vastly expand our vision, and look up at places like a younger, closer, more democratic India, for far more equitable free trade a agreements.
We need to vastly reform our tax system, to remove inequity, drones, unnecessary parasitical and costly practice; and all avoidance!
And in so doing, produce the most efficient, lowest costing tax rate in the world!
I mean, a single stand alone expenditure tax of just 4.8-5% variable, would collect as much as 100 billion PA more tax, and because it cancels out compliance costs, which such inherent simplicity also eliminates, there are real savings to the bottom line!
At least an averaged 7% in the first instance and more as all other taxes are repealed, save tobacco and alcohol excise; and capital gains, all of which would remain/become purely state revenues!?
The GST, could be replaced by a direct funding model, that coupled to regional autonomy, could add as much as 30% to coal face funding of health and education.
These changes will result in far fewer bureaucrats, and end most duplication.
No one is owed a living!
However, the increased economic activity engendered, will create even more rewarding career opportunities elsewhere.
After tax reform, we need to reinvest in publicly owned energy!
Mostly as cheaper than coal, thorium. And no, not tomorrow but as we decommission current power delivery?
We also need to crack on with nation building projects now, if only to stop them costing us double or quadruple 10-20 years from now.
After that, we really do need to start extracting our own oil, if only to produce the necessary funding, to invest in very large scale alternatives.
We do just that much and we will have the high tech corporations of the world, and literally millions of self funded retirees, beating a path to our door!
Rhrosty.

Footnote:
Self funded retirees, do not usually produce children, or compete with nationals for jobs!
All of which would become far more abundant as the first result, but particularly in the services sector, and among the largely unskilled! (Second language students, the semi retired)
Rhrosty.

ITS funny/but there are many good ideas in the text
and one is impressed at how the public service has deliverd a lot
[mainly because the election [howard lost /knew he was going to loose thus cut 20 billion in tax cuts/ensuring alp would either ned hide jonnies sins..or tax

so the story is presented..a 4 year plan if you will
but it was written by the ones who b.ennifit/the most..ie private insurance that went broke /bust..by the mortgauge swop sloBTHE UNDERWRITERS AND THE BANKERS THEY ALL GOT THEIR BAILOUT CASSH UP

but the game is up
6 may= judgment day
god has a plan/because the godless planned this down to the last death.

AUDIT THIS...[MODIFIERS]
How the Corporate Media and Journalists Perpetuate Lies
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/enron-2-0-wall-street-wants-manipulate-state-energy-markets-just-like-manipulates-every-market.html

and Misinformation About Drugs
By: MTJ
http://rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/corporate-media-journalists-perpetuate-lies-misinformation-drugs/

Maia Szalavitz
RINF Alternative News

Journalists are no less likely to take drugs than anyone else—indeed, in my admittedly anecdotal experience, they’re more likely to use. You’d think that this would make us especially skeptical both about federal policies that failed to prevent our own drug-taking and about extreme claims about drug users.

But the press may actually be one of the biggest obstacles to reform. Instead of asking tough questions, reporters tend to simply parrot conventional wisdom—and reinforce the idea that the drug war is the only way, even when drug warriors’ claims contradict the evidence of the writers’ own lives.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b32_1399054499

lets audit this?
fake numbers in= bad numbers out
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/its-an-illusion-here-are-the-real-unemployment-numbers_05022014

then the total lack of govt oversight..of poluters and cas cow slurpers/CONSUMING THE 2/3 RDS OF THE GOVT NOT PAYING PENSIONS HEALTH
Enron 2.0: Wall Street Manipulates Energy Prices …
and Every Other Market

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-29/jpmorgan-accused-of-energy-market-manipulation-by-u-s-agency.html

If regulators side with Wall Street — and indications are that they will — expect the cost of electricity to rise from Maine to California as others duplicate this scheme to manipulate the markets, as Enron did on the West Coast 14 years ago, before the electricity-trading company collapsed under allegations of accounting fraud and corruption.

The test case is playing out in New England. Energy Capital Partners, an investment group that uses tax-avoiding offshore investing techniques and has deep ties to Goldman Sachs, paid $650 million last year to acquire three generating plant complexes, including the second largest electric power plant in New England, Brayton Point in Massachusetts.

Five weeks after the deal closed, Energy partners moved to shutter Brayton Point. Why would anyone spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the second largest electric power plant in New England and then quickly take steps to shut it down?

Energy partners says in regulatory filings that the plant is so old and prone to breakdowns that it is not worth operating, raising the question of why such sophisticated energy-industry investors bought it.

The real answer is simple: Under the rules of the electricity markets, the best way to earn huge profits is by reducing the supply of power. That creates a shortage during peak demand periods, such as hot summer evenings and cold winter days, causing prices to rise. Under the rules of the electricity markets, even a tiny shortfall between the available supply of electricity and the demand from customers results in enormous price spikes.

With Brayton Point closed, New England consumers and businesses will spend as much as $2.6 billion more per year for electricity, critics of the deal suggest in documents filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/enron-2-0-wall-street-wants-manipulate-state-energy-markets-just-like-manipulates-every-market.html

REALLY MOST THE AUDIT WORK HAS BEEN DONE
FOLLOW ON FROM ENRON.point 2.ohh

the government doesn’t even force the banks to admit any guilt as part of their settlements.

Because of this failure to prosecute, it’s not just interest rates. As shown below, big banks have manipulated virtually every market – both in the financial sector and the real economy – and broken virtually every law on the books.

And they will keep on doing so until the Department of Justice grows a pair.
Currency Markets Are Rigged

Currency markets are massively rigged. And see this and this.
Derivatives Are Manipulated

The big banks have long manipulated derivatives … a $1,200 Trillion Dollar market.

Indeed, many trillions of dollars of derivatives are being manipulated in the exact same same way that interest rates are fixed: through gamed self-reporting.
Oil Prices Are Manipulated

Oil prices are manipulated as well.
Gold and Silver Are Manipulated

Gold and silver prices are “fixed” in the same way as interest rates and derivatives – in daily conference calls by the powers-that-be.

commodities manipulated/high frequency trading anipulaTED/REAL ESTATE/INSURANCE PILLS DRUFGS ITS ALL MANIPULATED
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/enron-2-0-wall-street-wants-manipulate-state-energy-markets-just-like-manipulates-every-market.html

http://12160.info/page/bundy-family-takes-fight-to-sheriff-federal-agents-accused-of-cri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo0Ld5obp5M

http://www.nutritionalanarchy.com/2014/05/02/the-weight-loss-industry-has-absolutely-nothing-to-do-with-health/

http://www.infowars.com/why-the-white-house-is-desperate-to-bury-benghazi/

http://investmentwatchblog.com/macro-analytics-eu-financial-repression-w-john-rubino/

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/allwarsarebankerwars.php

yes war is manipulated/too
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/SMALL_thhreesteps.jpg
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/07/big-banks-are-criminal-enterprises.html