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Coalition caught out misleading the nation over infrastructure investment : Comments

By Anthony Albanese, published 2/2/2017

It is an article of faith for propagandists that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

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Dear Alan,

I've got another one for you:

While walking down the street one day a politician is
tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in
heaven and is met by St Peter. "Welcome to heaven,
before you settle in, we have a small problem. I have my
order from above that you'll have to spend on day in hell
and one day in heaven, then you can choose where to spend
eternity."

"I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the
politician.

"I'm sorry but those are the rules."

With that, St Peter escorts him to the elevator and the
politician goes down, down, down to hell.

The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a
green golf course.In the distance is a clubhouse and standing
in front are all his friends and other politicians who had
worked with him. Everyone is very happy and in evening dress.
They're happy to see him, they play a friendly game of golf,
and then dine on lobster, caviar, and drink champagne.
The devil is also present. He's a friendly guy dancing,
cracking jokes - time flies. Before he realises it, it's
time to go back.

Everyone gives him a hearty farewell. The lift doors re-open
and St Peter's waiting for him. Next he gets sent to heaven.
Here he joins a group moving from cloud to cloud, playing
harps and singing. Again before he realises - time has
passed. St Peter returns.

"Well, you've spent one day in hell and one in heaven.
Now choose your eternity."

"I choose hell." St Peter escorts him to the elevator that
takes him to hell.

This time the doors open and he's in the middle of a barren
land covered with waste and garbage. His friends are dressed
in rags picking up trash. The devil comes and puts his arms
around his shoulder.

"I don't understand - this is so different from yesterday.
What happened?"

The devil smiles and replies:

"Yesterday we were campaigning.
Today, you voted."
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 2 February 2017 1:01:23 PM
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Thanks for that Foxy and the chuckle! On a less humorous note.

A recently deceased wakes up in a very strange place. Whereapon, a nondescript person pops into his room for "the guided tour". And so, he slips out of bed, into his slippers and dressing gown and proceeds down a very long hallway.

Halfway down the guide opens a vast door and shows him a monumental room with a table stretching beyond the horizon stacked with food. Around which thousands are gathered, standing up to their necks in warm excrement; and only able to select from the delicious abundant display, with very long spoons glued to their hands, they can't ever manage to negotiate into their mouths.

Consequently the monumentally enormous room is pure bedlam!

That my friend, remarked the guide, is hell!

Then they proceeded further down to an identical door opening into an identical room, where the only difference was the satisfied smacking of appreciative lips and smiling, laughing, contented beyond measure, folks rubbing rounded stuffed tummies and feeding each other!

And that my friend is heaven, remarked the guide!
Cheers Alan.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 2 February 2017 3:13:09 PM
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Dear Alan,

Thank You for that.

I guess each of us have our own versions of
heaven and hell. As Mark Twain stated -
You go to heaven for the climate, hell for
the company.

Ellen DeGeneres told the story - My grandmother
started walking 5 miles a day when she was sixty.
She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where
the hell she is.
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 2 February 2017 4:21:16 PM
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I've come across an interesting link on the web
that may be of interest:

http://theconversation.com/election-2016-will-the-infrastructure-promises-meet-australias-needs-61140
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 2 February 2017 4:42:15 PM
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Greetings Mr. AA,

Do you read the comments posted here ? If so please post an answer.
I have a few things to say but no point if you do not read what the plebs have to say.
Perhaps you are just stirring the pot. Yes?

Simple simon.
Posted by simplesimon, Thursday, 2 February 2017 4:43:08 PM
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These arguments about government infrastructure spending virtually always focus on economic growth and jobs. This leads to heated discourse on whether or not it actually does or does not lead to economic growth or jobs. Various vested interests say yes or no, depending on whether it suits their profit agenda.

What is missing from the discourse is the concept that government infrastructure spending is a public service. People living in any country are entitled to use efficient, safe and largely free infrastructure in going about their daily lives. This not only applies to roads, dams and bridges, it also applies to libraries, universities, schools, hospitals, police and welfare services.

Thirty years of neo-liberalism has reduced public spending discourse to the assumption that anything that does not deliver a profit or create jobs is wasted money. The concept of improving the people's lives has been surgically removed from the discussion.
Posted by Killarney, Friday, 3 February 2017 3:33:49 AM
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