Why can I feel a new rip off creeping up on me?

Could it be the simple floating of the idea that something has to be done about flood insurance by our Anna.

Obviously our spendthrift state government has no money to use to do something to protect the folk of Brisbane against the next flood. So what to do? How to get out from under the load of expectation?

What better than to blame the insurance companies? Now with some careful manipulation we can get compulsory house insurance, including flood, & transfer the cost to all the home owners, most of whom are never going to be flooded.

I cancelled my insurance with the local big insurer after two increases in two years totaled 45%. They justified the increases by including full flood, at no extra cost. Bet they are sorry now.

It was a con of course, I'm on a ridge, 25 meters above the plain, & don't need it thanks.

Still, I think Anna would rather transfer the load to us. We all pay double insurance rates, & our trusty government can duck out of doing anything.

When Goss took over all ambulance services in Qld, it was going to be a great service, saving much cost.

When Beattie found that Labor mismanagement had created a hugely expensive juggernaut, he introduced a new tax, [sorry Levy], to get the huge expense out of his budget.

Then, as a bloke who could never do anything simply & honestly, he had to create another con. Instead of having everyone pay a Levey on their drivers licence, where most people could share it, he forced councils to add it to rates. Some rate payers paid the tax/Levy up to 4 times, but Beattie had the anger aimed at councils, not him.

Cunning, & he trained Anna.

Can we all, take our rose colored glasses and put them in the draw.
Get the brain out of that bucket by the door install it again in its rightful place.
Now what cash has any government got,just how much do they have,
Every cent comes via us,oh yes tax havens exist, some/rich pay far less.
But we pay in the end or those who buy our exports do.
What out comes do YOU want from these floods?
Mine are these,in part, rebuilding better if possible, and as fast as possible.
An inquiry, lets learn if it could have been done better, warnings buildings, that dam.
Now New Zealand has a different insurance system, not all that sure about it, is it better is it delivering the goods, yes it has to be paid for.
Is the standard of debate for some OLO posters drifting?
I warned of an inability to focus on issues with out biases, but here a protector of conservatives warns us of what?
A CRIME COMMITED? NEGLECT OF THE VICTIMS OF THESE NATION WIDE FLOODS?
No a warning of shadows, it will cost us a great deal all of us,the very poor can not contribute to help, we can, have you given yet hasbeen?
Do you see my concern? you again launch the henny penny syndrome at Labor.
But while they may be on the way down in QLD do not forget they won more votes more trust in your state.
My in box is this morning full,of bigotry from CHRISTIAN Conservatives
This country must lift the blinkers in political debate, we must expect and demand better from every one.
This tragic horrible series of events needs our attention ,it demands we do not let our mates down, we should give then give again, hold every charity party and person accountable.
But flog one party with what has not yet happened?
I take full responsibility for my every word wrong or right,I understand some on my side are dreadful things, but at least I understand.

It won't be Annie get your gun, it'll be Annie get your speed camera. Just you wait for the proliferation of fines to get hold of more money.

but at least I understand.
Belly,
you left out begin to. Otherwise, good on you. Glad to hear it.

Isn't that Hasbeen something else. He has dreamed up a new tax now. A flood tax. I don't think that will fix future floods.
Floods across five states, we could be in trouble. How do you guard against NATURAL wether events

Shortened Hasbeen:

I'm alright Jack, and bugger

Everyone else!

We pay our taxes to government, & councils to a lesser extent, so they do the community thing.

In the 74 flood a bloke I know received government compensation when he had major damage. The disruption to his family's life was massive, but when it was all over, his house had been raised, repaired, & slightly improved.

We payed for this, & for hundreds of his neighbours assistance through our taxes. This is what we pay taxes for, not for thousands of useless pen pushers.

In 64 I paid 7.5% tax. In 74 I paid a little over 12%. Now it's a bit over 30%, & I get less for that tax now, than I did back then.

Now I see the start of an effort by government [of any colour] setting up to wriggle out of another area of responsibility.

Join me in the bitch, it just might slow down the "pay more get less" that has been a feature of our governments for the last 46 years that I have been watching.

At this time.
My concerns are focused.
On the victims.
Those we lost and who lost.
Our country and its future.
If my list was ten pages long.
It still would not contain costs to me as an issue.
Individual, you say I Begin to understand, unfortunately you never will.
Hasbeen focus on demanding accountability for every dollar spent, not on costs to help an Aussie in need.

We do pay more in taxes and for that we get more stuff we don't really need in the way of grants, top heavy departments, pork barrelling, subsidies etc, while the stuff we really want and need in the way of community and health services has reduced although it is still vastly better by comparison to other nations. This is true of both the major parties.

The catch-22 is that any cuts to government spending to help pay for the floods will be at the coalface and it will affect even more of those services that we assume as part of a social democracy.

Courageous leadership is required to ensure cuts are not applied to those public service focussed areas but to the top layers of the APS. Will it happen? I doubt it.

Belly it is time you woke up. It is just at such times that our politicians chose to start such rip offs, or complete them.

I think it was a pommy politician who said "we must never let a disaster go to waste". He was talking about the opportunity to slip some other rip off through, while everyone was preoccupied.

WE have seen what some have to offer.

Julia's initiative was to start a committee to maxamise industries contributions. Thanks love! Don't call us, we'll call you, perhaps.