DreamOn,

I am trying to make sense of your somewhat incoherent post. You do realise that I am not actually a politician? The coalition didn't have to lock up their politicians primarily because they didn't commit crimes. Would you prefer a quota system where they lock up one MP a year?

As for FWA, that they were appointed as the tribunal for union affairs, the expectation should be that they perform their work competently. Taking more than 3 years on a simple case to finally prepare and give a document to the DPP that was effectively useless and didn't contain even the source documents required for a prosecution is either rank incompetence or deliberate corruption. Given the almost complete stacking of the FWA with ex union officials both are probable. If you want proof, then the fact that the DPP threw their document back in their face after one day says it all.

Shadow Minister & Lexi:

I feel somewhat saddened to see the deviseness that
is examplified by your continuing posts. You both
appear to be reasonably intelligent members of our
society, but are both indicating a blossoming enmity
towards each other as the discussion unfolds!

We should all take a deep breath and stop to think
carefully as to the reasons why we choose to support
either one side of the political spectrum, or the other.

If we are to be truly sensible and honest with ourselves,
we should have enough nouse to realise that both sides
of the political spectrum have their good points and
their bad points, however, at the end of the day ALL are
interested in firstly their own remuneration and the
chance to progress to a higher political position, with
an even higher remuneration and even more electoral power,
as the ultimate target, ..all else is secondary.

We should be accepting the hard cold fact that whoever is
holding the power of the day, will control the electorate
as they see fit until another election is imminent, when
they will once again offer many goodies to entice us, the
suckers, to cast our vote in their direction.

All too many times have I voted for an individual Politician
who has promised to do this and do that for the electorate,
only to find that upon election he has planted his fat bum
firmly in his chair of office and conveniently "forgotten"
ALL of his promises to the community.

We should simply view these politicians as an evil necessity,
but not expect any reasonable standard of performance from
them,.....those days are long gone, and we are now relegated
electorally to the position of Stone-age dwellers rubbing two sticks together to see what happens?

Dear Crackcup,

Thank You for your calm, reasoned and
intelligent post. I feel obliged to react to
Shadow Minister simply because of his "one-eyed"
attacks on the government. I realise that we
can all have different points of view. However,
he tends to go over-board - and I feel obliged
to provide some balance. But you're right. I should
simply not react (becaue in doing so I give him
whay he wants).

Lexi:

I think that we are all victims of a political system
that is far from perfect, but for now it is all we have
got until something better comes along such as a
Referendum controlled system or the like!

I certainly resent seeing my tax money being wasted on
pay increases for parliamentarians who are generally a
waste of space, but that is the nature of the beast, and
I suppose that we could not expect a much different type
of behaviour from these electoral elite. It must be good
to be able to manipulate yourself a pay rise and then
offset the cost of it by allowing the increase in the cost
of a majority of services and commodity items.

I think that we will see an horrendous Budget in May as the
current government endeavour to appease big business, whilst
at the same time cutting many services and projects that
benefit the little people. After all THEY know that only a
miracle will keep them in power at the next election, and no
doubt they will have all aquired their own future retirement
funds well before that actually happens!

Dear crackcup,

If you think things are bad now - and you obviously do.
Then wait and see what happens if and when the Coalition gets
into power under Tony Abbott whose wild policy gyrations
suggest chaos rather than stability.
And the cuts that will be made will cost
the "little people" that you speak of - very dearly indeed.

Oh come now *Shadow* you were doing so well, but when challenged you appear to feel threatened and have levelled against me unsubstantiated criticism, which in principal, is no different from some of *Lexi's* comments which also have been made here in the absence of any basis.

That is not to say that she may not well be correct, but she hasn't demonstrated that concurrently here, and instead referred to comments made in the past and suggested that you do your own research, which I have to agree, doesn't assist much.

But then, I strongly suspect that *Lexi* is none to keen when the things become heated, and like another poster I recall, *Foxy Loxy,* usually does a quick stage exit when it gets "hot in the kitchen."

I think that is a shame actually, as she makes some worthwhile comments i.m.o. when she substantiates them.