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THE SLOW BOIL OF AN ECONOMY
AND OTHERS TRUTH

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION 2007

Yes well the day of truth is rapidly approaching
and the boys in the big end of town want us to
believe their truth... (The government)

According to Peter, Julia?s a communist hilarious
indeed and even more scary the Labor Party has been
stacked with (male) union heavies...Shock horror!Tell
us something we don't know.Certainly this is worth our
consideration. It is something, we all know they the
(Labour Party), battle with themselves...Yet unlike
Groucho (Marx) people do join clubs that will have
them...

One has to be amused at both parties desperate grab
at the MY SPACE and the YOU TUBE generation, in an
attempt to join their clubs...That is seriously
tragic... Lets face John suggesting children eat
apples on MY SPACE, when what they want is faster
broadband is truly hilarious...Bordering on pathetic..

According to stats from the Parliamentary Library
the Liberal Party is well represented from the big
end town.So what is the Federal governments point?
Different club different criteria..

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS CURRENT CABINET.

"Alexander Downer, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey
are all former Liberal Party staffers. Brendan
Nelson is a former National union boss. Outer
ministry member Andrew Robb is a former Liberal
Party federal director and staffer. Chris Pyne
is a former staffer. So is Fran Bailey. As are
Parliamentary Secretaries Greg Hunt & Tony Smith.'

MALE DOMINATED PARTIES
One could also look at a more alarming fact that
Australia' 2 major Political Parties, have been
dominated by so called "educated" white Anglo Saxon
men since Federation. One would have to see this
truth as more alarming and more galling, than Julia
being part of a student think tank in her 20?s?

Within the current parliament representation of
women across the Senate and the House of Reps
is ONLY 28.3%....

www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2005-06/06rn24.pdf

This alarming fact seems to have been obscured
by the commies are coming in 2007?Which is
completely ludicrous...For Goddess sake lets
get some perspective on issues of truth. What
is to be feared and what is really going on here?
This glaring imbalance of women's representation could
well be addressed and revalued as well. Given we are
willing to consider and value equity and balance
of power for the whole....

THE PRECARIOUS JUGGLE
On ABC?s "Lateline" program last night Pollsters
suggested the 2007 Federal election will be run
and won on the issue of the economy..I guess if
you tell people that enough they will believe it.
A yes the slow boil... What is ironic about that
is the average voter is indeed juggling, their
own precarious economy of needs..

THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOT'S
Consider the cost of home loans petrol prices
childcare costs, every increasing food costs,
health care and education costs? Ah yes living
in a country with so called choice.

"You can have it if you can afford it.." With
an underlying menace/ terror that if you can't
it's ones own fault....Ah Mark's aspirational
voters have become the working poor... Ah the
lucky country...How lucky can one be or become?
It would become apparent we are living in a users
pays society and the more one pays the more one
can have.. One could begin to believe one 'should'
simply try harder and believe the 'truths' that
are fed to us.Regardless whether they are boiled
dry or NOT....

This type of approach smacks of stand in the naughty
corner until one remembers what the teacher said!!
or is it worse one has not listened and therefore
it's the individuals own fault? Mr Howard and his
club said spend up buy property get ahead...

Now it appears this has left the aspirational voter
considering appetizing ways to eat the Plasma TV now
that Pizza is of the menu....And possibly wondering
where they went wrong? After all they did what they
were told???

A COMMUNITY OR AN ECONOMY?
As Eva Cox has said ?are we an economy or a community??
That is what is worth considering when people go to vote
on November 24th 2007??We need to examine the current
Federal governments swing on truth..

What does prosperity actually mean in the personal realm
of ones own economy of needs? What does community mean
within an economy?

AWARE AND ALARMED
The current government told us to be aware but not alarmed
of the other. Well frankly I think we should be aware of
what they are advocating..John and Tony speak about their
truth, but who's truth is it and how is affecting the whole?

Can we trust such people that blatantly lied about(Tamapa)
children overboard a government that incarcerated asylum
seekers children..A patriarchal government that NOW say
they are ?saving? aboriginal children with more control
mechanisms that are stripping aboriginal communities of
fundamental rights..?

Who's children will we care for and HOW are we caring for
them is inconsistent and patronizing indeed!! 40 years (or
is that 200 and what?) of neglect.. AND NOW this Federal
government who are unable to say sorry want to control
the situation in Aboriginal communities..Consider if
they came to communities in the growth corridors and
took this approach? What would the backlash be?

An insidious veil under the belief they are protecting
children....

TONY'S TRUTH AND LOVE OF CHILDREN
On a personal level John's friend Tony was not even
clear whether he had an extra child or not. Can we
trust a chap in charge of Health who has had unsafe
sex..Not to mention overlooking his own obligations
of child support payments? Then backed out of the
whole idea of parentage..What a weird debacle that
was...So would one want to trust a man not conscious
of his own behavior and the impact on the other??

AH YA YA THEN THERE IS THE WAR
One may well wonder what the war on terror is about
and who is creating the fear of the other? It would
appear terror has arrived in the growth corridors
of Melbourne/ Sydney, in a different form.

FAMILY ECONOMIES
One can plainly see credit card debit is being sought
to simply survive or live the consumer dream..Interest
rates that are apparently not going up... but hello
have consistently gone up under the Howard government.
Families that are unable to make child care affordable,
part-time and casual work that is not and will never be
sustainable to truly live the dream.

CHANGING PARADIGMS OF EMPLOYMENT
The present Federal Government say we have the lowest
unemployment in 30 years. However what they neglect to
point out is the bench marks of what reasonable employment
options are, have changed dramatically in the past 30 years..
Change the truth change the goal posts..Of course repetitive
words become belief and people forget what was and what can
be.

The slow boil of a communities consciousness is about to
burn into the open pan..What truth as a society, do we want
to live..What will we choose to believe and who do we trust??
Who's hands are we leaving our future in?

Lets really talk about truth and economies of scale and
see what truth prevails..Bring on the election of 2007!!
What do we bequeath to our children??
Vita

'GETUP' SPEAKS ON A GOVERNMENT IN DECLINE A
AND WASTING OUR MONEY AND OUR TIME!!!
vita

'When the Government saturated us with their Climate
Clever advertising campaign, GetUp members rallied
to raise an unbelievable quarter of a million doll
ars plus to successfully air our climate spoof ad
during the AFL Grand Final.

But government spending of our taxes to advertise
their party policies must stop now. Before another
dollar of public money is spent, sign the urgent
petition to tell Mr Howard and Mr Rudd that we
demand an end to government advertising designed
to spruik not inform:

Every day of inaction is literally costing us $1
million in advertising. Some of it is legitimate
but this Government has spent more than any other
on its own advertising - estimated at almost $2
billion. Our Government is now one of the biggest
advertisers in Australia, and one of the highest
spending governments in the world.'

This flagrant misuse of OUR money by the Australian
Federal government, is without consultation or any
consent by US the voters.

The last federal Labor government did the same,
as do current state Labor governments - While the
Greens and Labor are making some positive noises
there is nothing effective in Australian law to
prevent this unbridled abuse of public trust and
purse.

Rumors abound that John Howard even intends to
break with time-honored convention and continue
taxpayer-funded propaganda during the election
period itself.

Sign the petition now - and we'll put your name
to the $2 billion invoice we'll send to the
government for our monies spent:

link.www.getup.org.au/campaign/NotWithMyMoney

Imagine what $2 billion of our taxes could do -
close the Indigenous health gap, fill the major
shortfall in public schools funding. Double the
Government's spending on climate change. Yet
that money has been largely wasted on political
self-interest, this is simply insulting to the
Australian taxpayers.

The GetUp team

Vita

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