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If only the US had Australia's Leadership
shaun:
There are so many ideas on how to solve our governments problems but the bottom line is that nothing will happen. No one wants to be bothered with making changes in order to have a better government. We keep electing the same and same kind of fools that lie and cheat. I don't mean to sound cynical but I simply do not see things changing in this country. In the 45 years that I have been interested in politics I've seen the same old crap warmed over and over again and the only things that changes is the occasional face.
The power of the people simply does not exist because no one cares enough to try to bring change. Most are only concerned with their personal wealth and how the government might affect it. What???? Me???? Worry about you???? Your kidding. I don't care what camp you're in conservative, liberal, moderate NO ONE wants their handouts to be messed with.
Willy The Londoner:
--- Quote from: shaun on October 12, 2014, 09:44:58 pm ---There are so many ideas on how to solve our governments problems but the bottom line is that nothing will happen. No one wants to be bothered with making changes in order to have a better government. We keep electing the same and same kind of fools that lie and cheat. I don't mean to sound cynical but I simply do not see things changing in this country. In the 45 years that I have been interested in politics I've seen the same old crap warmed over and over again and the only things that changes is the occasional face.
The power of the people simply does not exist because no one cares enough to try to bring change. Most are only concerned with their personal wealth and how the government might affect it. What???? Me???? Worry about you???? Your kidding. I don't care what camp you're in conservative, liberal, moderate NO ONE wants their handouts to be messed with.
--- End quote ---
I like your entry Shaun. It sounds like you would like a government as we have here!
Willy
shaun:
Willy, the thought crosses my mind often. By often I mean several times a day. It doesn't help when you have a wife that tells you every day that she needs her husband.
I'm so fed up with our government. It is funny (sad) that having been born and raised in a Republic where democracy is suppose to be our form of government, but it isn't, that one would consider moving to a communist country for retirement.
I am 8 months away from my earliest point to retire. Still 3 years away for social security if it is still in existence when I get there. More than likely they will change the age to 70 rather than 62.5 before I get there. Crooks.
I sound so anti-American in this post and it makes me sick thinking about who we used to be as a country.
What pains me the most is all of the people who have given their lives for our country, for freedom, and now this is what they served and died for. It is just sickening.
You want the crap scared out of you watch all of this It is a little over 8 minutes long;
I took this link down because it has been changed to a bunch of crap. The MSNBC and CNN reports at the end were pulled.
Willy The Londoner:
I have never regretted for one instant about moving my life to here. As you say freedom should be everything and I have more actual freedom here than I ever did in the UK.
Of course people have freedom there but it is freedom to rob you and steal your possessions, freedom to break into your home, freedom to terrorise any one living there. Get caught and they keep their freedom until its there 5th or 6th time.
In all the time I have been here I have not once felt anything but safe, day or night. Except when being driven by my wife that is! :'(
My living standard has increased so much. The value of the GB Pound as stayed around 10 rmb to a pound the whole time, sometimes just over sometimes just under. In the five years or more that I have been here I have bought a new car and bought and paid for two homes. Thinking of what to do with the first when the seconds ready maybe I will rent it out but coming here with a basic UK pension was the best thing that I ever did as since being here other opportunities have opened up for me.
I look forward to the time when you can join your wife here Shaun.
Willy
David E:
Shauan
I think that maybe one of the places to start a change program is to make voting compulsory as it is here in Aus.
If we moan about what democracy is NOT doing for us, then are too idle to cast a vote, then how can we complain ???
Here in Aus, on voting day we MUST turn up to a voting booth and get our names entered as "voted".... Once you are in a voting booth, it does not matter what you do, you can cast a legitimate vote, or write "crap" on your vote paper, because your actual vote paper is anonymous, it's up to you. But at least you made your choice. Then you have a Govt that is truly representative. Good, bad or indifferent !!!! If you dont turn up, then you get a whopping fine.
I concur 100% with Willy's words....the average Chinese has heaps more personal freedom than we do in our so called free society. Maybe we hate the theory of Central Communism, but it sure does not intrude on the daily life of it's citizens in the same invasive way that we in the West are totally blitzed by trillions of restrictions on our personal freedoms, legislated by a bunch of grabbing dogs...
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