Sir Mike's Comments: February 2015

( Me at my place )

I am coming out loud and proud and declaring the following:

1. I am an Aussie white bloke of European descent!

2. I am heterosexual!

3. Although non religious I tend to believe in the so-called Christian values/belief!

Sir Mike's Comments 28/2/2015.

Also on my blog: www.beautkoot.blogspot.com.au

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Subject: " The Squirrel.The Grasshopper & Political Correctness ".

A Squirrel.

A Grasshopper.

People I must receive 1000's of emails over the year and it never ceases to amaze me of peoples great imagination, ingenuity, creativeness and their erudite, profound, well informed, intellectual scholarly knowledge as well as humorous and in many cases a combination of some if not all of the above and them some.

Take for instance the email I have just received below which unfortunately is " Author Unknown "

or if they were known their name or names have been omitted ? probably having been copied and

paste a few or more 1000 times on it's journey around the internet?

I believe the author(s) should be proud of this because with the massive feed back I get there is absolutely no doubt in my mind - excluding the suburban yuppies, greenies, the Labor Party lefties, do-gooders and those that have a financial interest in keeping this situation going – that the hard working, Tax Paying, Law Abiding ( 98% of the Aussie population) and regrettably silent majority would agree with the following (128%)!!!

I don't need to say anymore the following email I believe say's all I could say and more !!!

However - there is always an " However " ain't there? - if people you are prepared to accept this

societal cancer that is draining the will of the decent Aussies to strive hard and succeed and at the same time empty the nations treasurer because of an ever increasing % of people - not necessarily Aussie citizens but free loaders - are getting more for producing less!! while the decent Tax Paying people are being asked/compelled by law in the way of taxes,fees and charges to produce more and more and yet receiving less and less for their efforts? then more fool you and as far as I am concerned you deserve all you get so don' t whinge!!

Sir Mike Howe - but you can call me Mike.

The Squirrel,The Grasshopper and Political Correctness

REST OF THE WORLD VERSION

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.

The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

THE END

NOW THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The ABC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.

The Australian press informs people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.

The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Housing Commission of Australia demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house.

The ABC, interrupting a cultural festival special from St Kilda with breaking news, broadcasts a multi-cultural choir singing 'We Shall Overcome'.

Bill Shorten rants in an interview with Laurie Oakes that the squirrel got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his 'fair share' and increases the charge for squirrels to enter Melbourne city centre.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The squirrel's taxes are reassessed.

He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders,for the work he was doing on his home, and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work.
The grasshopper is provided with a Housing Commission house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile.

The squirrel's food is seized and re-distributed to the more needy members of society - in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home.

The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Australia as they had to share their country of origin with mice.
On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Australians' apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody.
Initial moves to make them return to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice.

The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people's credit cards.
A 60 Minutes special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrel's food, though spring is still months away, while the Housing Commission house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain it. He is shown to be taking drugs.
Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshopper's drug 'Illness'.
The cats seek recompense in the Australian courts for their treatment since arrival in Australia.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks.

He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him.
Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost $10 million and state the obvious, is set up.
Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers.
Legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased.
The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Australia's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.

The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose.
The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison.

They call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid $1 million each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in Australia.

The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and order, and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.

This then, pretty much sums up what's happening in Australia today, the Lucky country?

THE END

" Governments - Re - Active not Pro - Active - ?? WHY ?? "

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Subject: " Governments - Re-Active not Pro-Active - ?? WHY ??"

( Me at my place )

I am coming out loud and proud and declaring the following:

1. I am an Aussie white bloke of European descent!

2. I am heterosexual!

3. Although non religious I tend to believe in the so-called Christian values/belief!

Sir Mike’s Comments 27/2/2015.

Also on my blog: www.beautkoot.blogspot.com.au

URL: http://beautkoot.blogspot.com.au

Subject: “ Governments – Re-Active not Pro-Active – WHY???? ".

People as some one that has taken a keen interest in politics for at least the last (50) years I listen into via the ABC Radio to both the House of Reps and the Federal Senate most days when I am home – which these days as I am retired is most days.

Now you will be told repeatedly by various people- especially pollies – that we have by world standards a fine robust adversarial political debating parliamentarian system to which they say that it is only at question time in both houses where the voters observe the aggressive and abusive behaviour of the pollies of both sides of the houses – however at other times it is far more conciliatory!! ABSOLUTE RUBBISH !!!.

Even when they are discussing a bill and/or bills that have bipartisan support/agreement they continue to snipe at each other! they are not debating chambers they are “ Dog pits ” where the participants shout – or in the case of some of the female pollies scream – vitriol and bitter, nasty criticism at each other and considering that at least (98%) of the time - in so far as the (2) major party’s are concerned - the matter has already been decided upon and is going to be voted along party lines!! so there should be one person allowed to put up the case for the “ Positive ” side and one for the “ Negative ” then call for a vote otherwise any one else speaking on the matter after that is superfluous and a considerable waste of the scarce and hard won Tax Payer funds because unlike the USA’s political system where both Democrats and Republicans can vote according to their beliefs and not along party lines our mobs can’t or at least are not allowed too!!!

It is obvious that most of them are just referring to notes supplied to them by their bureaucrats and are not really on top of the subject so then they fill in their allotted time with a history lesson some going back to Whitlam’s and Howards time and beyond and who said & did what? who did & didn’t do what? one side will come out with these millions or billions of dollar figures that were either reduced or spent however the other side would then contradict ! refute ! rebut ! and put forward counter figures leaving us listeners/viewers none the wiser? and what is more often the initial pollie (1st one to speak )walks out of the chamber not bothering to listen to the response??.

Bronwyn Bishop – Speaker for the House of Reps.

Stephen Parry – The Senate President.

The (2) people that do the most of the speaking in both the House of Reps and Senate are the Speaker and the Senate President because they have to continually try and bring the relevant houses to order in fact the Speaker in the house of Reps is continually having to eject unruly pollies because they can’t or won’t control themselves! WHAT A PATHETIC SPECTACLE ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THEY CLAIM TO REPRESENT THEIR AUSSIE CONSTITUENTS?? HOW CAN YOU REPRESENT ANYONE OUTSIDE THE CHAMBER??

Teflon Bill Shorten our Union & Federal Labor Opposition Leader and alleged rapist.

Prof Gillian Triggs – The Aussie Human Rights Commission President.

People when you consider that Aussie has some 746,397 unemployed and climbing thanks largely due to Teflon Bills Labor mob prior to the September 2013 Federal election ? I gather there has been a further 100,000 plus under this Abbott mob? and it is estimated by some Professor ? name ? that appeared on the latest Four Corners program discussing Job Agencies and the unemployed that at best we have only about 146,000 job vacancies available leaving a deficit – and the Labor Party would know all about deficits as we know!! – of some 600,397 unemployed?

However a pollie like Teflon Bill who professes as a Union and Labor leader to be a friend of the battlers and those Teflon Bill refers to as “ The Workers ” and yet does his best today the 25/2/15 to disrupt the normal parliamentary business and have standing orders put aside to discuss the political spat between the Abbott mob and Prof Gillian Triggs – see above – for what was a very obvious political stunt and a subject I have absolutely no doubt has little if any interest to the average financially battling Aussie who look upon refugees, kids in detention as just another financial burden the poor old Aussie Tax Payer has to bear and are just another pain in their financial butt!!

? If there is any doubt what the average hard done by Aussie – I don’t mean the well off suburban yuppie, Greenie, do – gooder or those with a financial interest – think about the refugee – asylum seekers and kids in detention situation then I dare any pollie to run on a pro refugees- asylum seeker ticket?? my guess is you won’t get past first base – racism, xenophobia you reckon?? rubbish!!

No!! not while Aussies born and bred are doing it tough!!!

Tony Abbott PM.

I some what disagree with the Abbott mob in regard to Prof Triggs report being of a political nature ? she may have been politically naive to present it the way she did?? but I seem to remember some time ago Prof Triggs discussing with some one on the ABC that with the Abbott mobs budget cuts Triggs was concerned her Commission/Department was going to be absorbed or discontinued therefore I believe this report was more trying to prove that her and her commission was relevant and important? however that seems to have back fired badly ain’t it???

? However Is it any wonder people that the Average Aussie has so little regard for pollies across the board of this over governed country of ours when someone like Teflon Bill Shorten a Union & Federal Labor Opposition Leader and alleged rapist and his Labor mob can spend a week of valuable and Tax Payer expensive parliamentary time continually disrupting the House of Reps based on “ He said She said ” accusations in a Senate enquiry and because the LNP – with special mention of the PM Abbott – found Prof Triggs report was not to their liking!!

Therefore considering we have problems in this country “ From the cradle to the grave ” did Teflon Bill and his Labor mob and their purely politically motivated rabble rousing efforts ? reduce - unemployment by (1) job? homelessness? aged care problems? poverty for the 10% plus of the 2,000,000 plus that are living below the poverty line? the numbers of the 90,000 that line up at charities every day/night for their one and only meal of the day? and I could fill my blog with possibilities!!

No ofcourse not!! these selfish self centred bastards were just trying to score political points against Abbott PM who may or may not have deserved it?? but I can tell you for sure the average Aussie doing it tough – or any Aussie for that matter – certainly does not deserve such utter arrogant hubris and the neglect of the Aussie core business, culture and values!!

This is why ofcourse our governments at all levels – local, State and Federal – are continually being “ Re – Active and not Pro – Active ” across the board because they spend so much of their Tax Payer funded employment – just spend a day listening to both the House of Reps and the Senate – trying to save their jobs at the next election either individually and/or collectively??

Our political system is sick and getting sicker and the cost of most of these pollies far exceeds their productivity value and people if your happy with that then don’t whinge when your taxes, fees and charges go up to pay for a mob of people that are getting paid more for producing less when the average Aussie is producing more and getting less!!!!!

Sir Mike Howe – but you can call me Mike.