Gidday Fellow Cynics:

To add insult to injury, I heard yesterday that Kevin has donated $20 Million towards the rebuilding of Gaza, after the devastation caused by the Israeli recent "chastizement"!

I would strongly suggest that if anybody has to foot the bill for the Israeli incursion and destruction of Gaza, let it fall back on the perpetrators.....the Israelis and maybe the U.S.of A. who have helped to arm and indoctrinate the Israelis` in the fine arts of warfare and attempts at global domination!

Failing that, might I suggest that Kevin allocate ALL of our Pensions to the rebuilding of Gaza, which may, when we are all starving to death, then give us the excuse to start building home-made rockets and firing them into Parliament House?

When does all this insanity stop! We as a nation are fast approaching our own financial meltdown, yet we still keep getting involved in other people`s wars, following the warmongers blindly down the road to inevitable Armageddon and at the same time handing out millions of dollars to every cause ( just or unjust ) as though the whole country is TRULY paved with Gold!

There are billions of people in this world less fortunate than ourselves, but we cannot simply donate, donate, donate until the coffers are bare,....that is simply financial and racial suicide!

I myself donate to some charitable organizations, however they are local Australian ones that I consider a worthy cause, and even though I could use that money myself, I still feel that a small sacrifice can help prevent this country regressing to a similar situation that Zimbabwe now finds itself in!

Please Kevin,....consider the future of this country and it`s people, before we all end up like Zimbaweans! I think that you started off with the right idea, but inevitably like all Politicians you are now starting to blow it out of your rear end!

Australia has five Collins Class submarines. Only three are operational because they cannot staff the other two (which are "in reserve). Apparently, it takes a special class of human being to work on submarines. It wants to build another 12. Great stuff for job creation in the building stage, for a total of 14 submarines to sit in mothballs.

There are not too many pensioners I know who are living it up - it is a daily and weekly battle, although I guess there will be exceptions. If the government wants to save money and control population, it should axe the baby bonus.

It's even worse than that Penny, they can only crew 2 of the subs, & there are a couple of surface ships sitting crewless too.

I am getting used to hearing stupid things, whenever I see Rudd's mouth moving, but when he talked about enlarging the navy, it really floored me. All our sailors are in short supply, & therefore getting much more sea time than is healthy for family relationships, but with the submariners it's now ridicules. If you want to get divorced, join a sub crew.

Unless they can find some ways of keeping our navy sailors a lot happier than now, it won't be a matter of getting more subs, or ships, it will be a matter of which half dozen will be the best to keep.

Perhaps it requires something like our merchant marine, what's left of it, with 6 weeks on, 6 weeks off

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Is this another thread silenced by fatual information rather than emotional attacks spurred on by personal beleifes.

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I know one couple who pay $11,00 per year in rates and $11,000 per year in land tax. Why should they miss out just because of good planning?
This is a typo, they pay $11,000 per years in rates as well.

Now this is a man who was a workaholic builder who built several houses in his life time. As a result they now own several houses which they rent out. They even rent one to people who have lost everything in the storm collapse, FOR NOTHING!

Now with each home they built they paid several taxes. Stamp duty on thier tools etc, tax on fuel, on the trucks, on thier office equipment, the list goes on.

They now pay so much in rates and land taxes that the rents they receive are used to cover these taxes.

So can anyone justify why they are not eligable to receive thier well earned pension, after all, they have paid more taxes and continue to pay more taxes than most.

It is about the only system I can think of that if you succeed, you loose. Why?

This generation has been betrayed. They were advised that some of thier taxes would fund thier retirement.

How are we going to convince generation Y to save and be succesful knowing full well that if they succeed they will be left to survive on thier own, knowing full well that the generation Y'ers that did not do as well will be provided for by the succesful ones contributions.

Where is the fairness and balance in this system?

To All:

Be thankful that you don`t live in the "Smart State" where "Kevin giveth and Anna taketh away"!

It appears that our "shifty" Treasurer and Premier have decided to increase Motor Vehicle Registration Fees by 20% from July!....this will then probably make Queensland the dearest state to drive a motor vehicle in!

We are hearing of just one of many imposts that are going to be applied to the community if and when they get re-elected to the trough!

We are led to believe that this is supposedly "the Party for The People"?......what a joke they present to the thinking element of the community! These clowns are starting to smell stronger than a crap-house door on a Prawn Trawler, and are twice as thick.

Anna Bligh is so confident of her popularity that she had to get Kevin and Wayne to come up here to wave the flag and try to distract the "disenchanted" voters from straying from the fold!.....Kevin might be popular, but that is one sure-fire way to lose popularity by acting as Ringmaster in the Bligh travelling circus of freaks!

Now they are giving Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen hassles by allowing Mining Exploration Leases in and around Joh`s gravesite on "Bethany"!....do these people have no conscience or moral principle at all