I failed to say that we don't need yet more bureaucrats wasting good donations. There are people already in various departments who are already budgeted foe. Use them & make them accountable. The slightest discrepancy & they're out. No jetting around the country. No if's n'buts.

Courageous: You did NOT spoil my day at all, rather

you should check YOUR facts before you start criticizing!

For your information as at 02 May 2010 Australia`s

National Debt was nudging 1 Trillion Dollars and we were

projected to be paying 48 Billion Dollars in Interest

over the following 4 years,.... ( with all the added

disaster costing, it will now be way over that figure ).

If you honestly believe that we have plenty of money

to throw around, all I can say is that I am very pleased

that you are NOT my Financial Adviser or the Federal

Treasurer

You're wrong crackup. Because a country is in deficit does NOT mean that the country doesn't have funds for disaster relief. Maybe you should look into the machinations of how an economy actually operates.

Australia has plenty of funds available as shown by the cost cuts, the Premier's disaster relief fund, the disaster levy, the insurance industry and also to a lesser extent by direct personal contributions made by quite a large number of people directly to disaster victims via charities. Australia is coping very well with the disaster aftermath, the costs are covered and the financial experts agree that Australia will be back in surplus in several years time.

I'm sorry to spoil your day yet again with the facts: Facts, devoid of political and personal slant.

Maybe you should look into the machinations of how an economy actually operates. courageous,
It is mere artificial complexity hence the constant economic difficulties. Let real intelligence handle real money & you'll see what money can do. A handful of half-baked idealistic academics can never make economists. Or do call the present lot competent economists ? If you do you need more help than I do & I'm in bad shape.
Just because people run things the way they do doesn't make it good. I use poverty all around as a gauge. What do the economists use as a datum ? Starvation ?

Tell us individual, seeing you know exactly what's wrong with the economy and precisely what to do to fix it ........ ummmmm how come you're dispensing your gifted knowledge base via anonymity on an obscure internet website with a handful of contributors? Hmm, I would have thought a person who has all the answers and all the necessary insight would have aimed higher than this.

Of couse, you're not just one of the millions of amateur armchair "experts" who "think" they have the answers to how everyone else should live and manage finances, or are you? No, of course you're not, you really do know all the answers don't you individual. That's wonderful.

courageous,
Wikipedia is a good place to start looking. First word "integrity". Instant headache ? No like ?
Are you saying that those who cost us billions in wastage or cause immeasurable misery are in fact economic experts ? Are you saying that offshore manufacturing is a sustainable economic strategy ? Are you saying that all our intellectual export is good because it's leaving our shores ? Many people are competent enough to have the answers to many of our problems. Their only problem is the dumb$hit greedy who prefer a whole country going to the dogs rather than sacrifice anything. You see, to make a lot of money you don't actually have to be very intelligent, you just have to be selfish & shamelessly exploit others. Are you worth what you're getting paid ? Do you think the CEO's of our industries are really worth the money they take away from those who need ? Our economy is controlled not by need but by greed. There is no skill in being a thief who is surrounded & protected by many other thieves.