Dear rehctub,

Ah politics. You blame the years of this government
for all our woes. Here's a bloke doing the same thing
as you - but with a wider scope:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=14893

Enjoy.

From the other thread Lexi...

Well, the author has managed to scare the heck
out of me. We've had doomsayers before
but what about just once one of them would come
up with offering solutions instead of only
condemnation. Wouldn't that be a novelty?

What about the Howard solution Lexi, you know, the one that resulted in JUST 4 detainees before the clever Kevin07 came along, with his bright ideas and decided to fix something that wasn't broken.

What I would say to the author are two things.

One, we choose our politicians from those who the corporate world has either overlooked, or rejected.

Two, name me one very successful business man/woman that isn't a bully to some extent.

Running a large business, such as our country, take tough decisions from powerful, well qualified people.

The whole trouble with politics is that everyone gets a say in who should run the country.

Some won't vote simp,y because the candidate left their wife, some because he/she drives a Ferrari, some pull their vote if they have their HAND OUTS cut back.

People generally vote for what best suits them, and pay little regard for what best suits the nation.

rehctub,

"The whole trouble with politics is that is that everyone gets a say in who runs the country."

Correction - politics per se doesn't guarantee that "everyone gets a say in who runs the country". It's only in "democracies" that we cobble together an imperfect system to try and guarantee a voice to all citizens of voting age.

You got a problem with democracy?

(I always thought that perhaps you'd escaped from the pages of a Dickens novel - now I'm convinced)

Poirot, my beef with democracy is that our democratic rights are gone once we exit the polling both.

Now if we get rid of compulsory voting, many who don't really care, won't vote.

Do we run the risk of never again being a world leader. Without a calamity tony Abbott will soon be pm, and a number of his policies seem to involve either a roll back or downgraded option.
While the mining tax has been a bit of bust, surely the concept of billion dollar profit companies who gain money through digging up our sovereign soil paying more tax on profits is a good one.
The concept of carbon tax or ets is also progressive, once again the current system may be flawed, but its a step forward.
Finally the NBN. It was enough for two independent conservatives to sign up. Sometimes you pay for what you get. And we will be stuck with it. Why can't we leade the world rather than lag again.