You southern lefties make me sick.

We had people on Magnetic island, collecting water to drink, from roadside puddles, & boiling it over a fire of part of their house, [the only dry wood they could find], & you lot are upset about my opinion of Gillard. Get real people.

My main complaint about Gillard & the other twit, Anna, is their tying up of resources with their photo oppotunitiess, & the same goes for Abbott.

My real bitch is with our totally useless public service.

Every time we have an emergency, [fire, flood, cyclone], we find the top echelon, of the departments required to help, totally lacking in ability, or sense.

I think the bureaucracy is now such a huge voting block that both major parties are afraid to do the necessary surgery to get rid of all the dead wood.

Hold onto your hats, it is only going to get worse.

Hasbeen:

I can understand your frustration. However you'll find that you won't get much sympathy when you continue to use labels like, "You Southern Lefties make me sick..." We should all be in this together - as fellow Australians - united - not divided.

Hasbeen:>> My main complaint about Gillard & the other twit, Anna, is their tying up of resources with their photo oppotunitiess, & the same goes for Abbott.<<

Bit of a picky complaint Hasbeen, in that the resource taken up for them to make their political mileage from it is miniscule compared to the whole. Remember Christine Nixon had a nine course restaurant meal before reacting to the Vic bush fires and they rightly crucified her for it. The expectation is that both lots should be seen often, and looking terribly terribly sorry for the duration of the calamity.

>> My real bitch is with our totally useless public service. Every time we have an emergency, [fire, flood, cyclone], we find the top echelon, of the departments required to help, totally lacking in ability, or sense.<<

We are of course talking about the managers and not the ants, the ants risk their lives for us and are stifled by too many agencies and too many bureaucratic processes competing with each other. Cyclone Katrina in the States was a prime example of over governance causing impotence when it comes to reaction and follow through times.

>> I think the bureaucracy is now such a huge voting block that both major parties are afraid to do the necessary surgery to get rid of all the dead wood.<<

Don't forget their union’s part in our public service; my wife is a teacher and the 45 degree slant to the left that the PSA usually carries runs out to 80 degrees during elections.

Thanks Hasbeen you in every post add to the opinion I have of you.
Sorry but clearly you are not much good at clear thinking, easiest thing in the world to craft insult.
My life has bought me into contact with many such as you.
And never once if it was personal contact, did they have any support for their views in their immediate surroundings.
OH don't worry about him he is always like that stuff, no doubt you hear those words often.
BALANCED understanding, is called for, my words about LABOR my indifference to Gillards leadership, my anti GREENS stance, and you call me lefty?
Not rare,true debate is often won not by our own words but the rambling ones of our opponent, my regards
Try harder next time.
Straight set victory's can be less fun.

Kudos where kudos is due. Belly is far removed from one I would consider zealously Left, such as a597, bless his or her little Fabian sox.