" Ok where were the gay and lesbian voters?? "

" Ok where were the gay and lesbian voters??"

Yep ok Andrew Barr the Labor Treasurer and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory plus an active member of the Labor gay and lesbian " Rainbow Wing" where was this " History Making " army of gay and lesbian voters that were going to get your Messiah Kevin Rudd over the line because Kevin Rudd had quote " A Personal Journey " unquote in regard to his view on gay marriage!??

For those of you that read my comments you may remember what I wrote on Thursday the 1/8/2013 which was as follows:

Subject: " NO WORRIES - THE TAX PAYERS PICK UP THE BILL!!"

People yesterday Thursday the 1/8/2013 I heard on Fran Kelly's show on Radio National ( ? where else people?? the ABC the tax payer funded gay/lesbian promotions department!! ) Andrew Barr the Labor Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory the member for Molonglo plus a very active member of the Rainbow Labor Wing spruiking the financial benefits to the Act economy if the federal marriage Act was bypassed and an Act for marriage equality - gay marriage! was passed in the Act and Andrew Barr estimated that at least 10,000 gay couples would take advantage of the opportunity?? I am sure the NSW/Tasmanian governments have the same hope in mind if they pass the Act as well?? we can only hope for their collective sake there are enough gays/lesbians to go around??

Then I went on to say:

Andrew Barr has been quoted as stating that the new pro gay marriage Labor Leadership team of PM Rudd - especially as PM Rudd has had a quote " Personal Journey " unquote in regard to his views on gay marriage ( what a bloody hypocrite !! that's me not Barr!! ) Albanese and ofcourse Wong will - in the view of Andrew Barr - get Labor over the line at the next federal election because of it?? I wonder what the other 98.5% of the non gay/lesbian and hetro Aussie voters think of that especially taking into account the " Marriage Equality" mobs own polling show that the over  50's Aussies - an ever increasing number population wise!! are not in favour of gay marriage!!

Well Andrew Barr we certainly found out what the other 98.5% of non gay/lesbian voters thought on election night 7/9/2013 didn't we???!!! and with that lame duck Greenie Adam Bandt completely side lined in the house of Rep's and the minority Greenies in the Senate even more marginalised and will no longer have the balance of power in the Senate as from the 1/7/2013!! I would say the almighty gay/lesbian voting power envisaged by you turned out to be a very damp firework indeed for just some of the following reasons:

1. The Labor Party Messiah Kevin Rudd the PM and federal Member for Griffith who in my view is an narcissistic! egotistical! person who had what was recognised as a fairly safe Labor seat of a margin of 8.5% almost lost his seat to the LNP who had a swing to them of 6.4%! Rudd only got 40.4% of the first preferences! down -3.7% and 53% after preferences down -5.5%!! with a myriad of senior Labor - and others - stating he should now leave politics because they can't trust him!! he has had his day they state!

Rudd is also credited with one of the worst and arrogant/lengthy valedictory speeches in the history of Aussie politics where he reluctantly mentioned that he had phoned Tony Abbott and conceded defeat but no mention of any congratulations?? how pathetic and childish!! a fine advocate for gay/lesbian rights you reckon Andrew Barr??? if so your standards differ greatly from the majority of Aussie voters even if we accept that hypothetically Rudd did better than Gillard would have???

2. We even had that union leader and gay rights activist NSW Labor Senator Doug Cameron in a large coloured profile smiling - from my experience with him the only time I have seen Cameron smile/laugh is when he has just put someone verbally down and/or he has said what in his mind is funny??- on his Facebook page holding up a well produced sign stating quote " Labor for Marriage Equality " unquote!! however maybe had Cameron held up a sign stating - Labor for the?? unemployed ? elderly ?sick and infirmed ? homeless ? the 10% of Aussies that are living below the poverty line - ie; 2,000,000!! the 90,000 that are fed by charities every night for their only (1) meal of the day!! then the federal Labor candidate for Macquarie,Blue Mountains,NSW a Susan Templemann - who I have met and have a lot of time for! and who Cameron as a resident of the Blue Moutains as I was for some 45 years! was spruiking for from a face to face and via the media point of view would not have been so soundly beaten by the LNP candidate Louise Markus - who I have also met and have a lot of time for! after preferences by some 8092 votes a swing to the LNP of 3.3% making it a some what safer LNP seat!!

I believe the likes of Cameron aught to get their priorities right and as a tax payer funded employee and not a gay/lesbian activist and union leader who both are and represent minorities and start caring for the majority of Aussies doing it tough!!

I realise ofcourse that appealing to the likes of Cameron an arrogant Scottish Union

organiser is a waste of time but as one of our NSW Senators until he is voted out then

we don't have much choice unfortunately!

3. Then ofcourse we have the federal 2013 election results and no matter what spin the likes of the Labor Party put's on it?? it was a disaster!! and regardless whether Kevin Rudd's Cut! Cut! Cut! negative campaign reduced the political carnage or not compared to Gillard it was still a disastrous embarrassment for Labor with the possible loss of 17 seats - down from 72 - 55 - no new seats acquired and at least 96% of the seats retained have had their margins reduced by half or less making them vulnerable at the next election??

People I am sure you are aware that the ABC - luv em! - started what they called 

" Vote Compass " during the 2013 election asking voters for their opinions on a myriad of issues ie; gay marriage, euthanasia, abortion etc; and I considered it very professionally done and useful and I gather 1.1 million Aussies took part and there were safe guards I gather so you couldn't vote twice from the same I P address and once the data had been weighted in numerous ways it gave an effective sample of about 450,000 respondents.

There was a question or more a statement - " Marriage should only be between a man and a women ".

There were 52% that stated No! that's not right - in other words gay marriage is ok? it's a loaded question when discussing gay marriage in particular but let's leave it there!

There were 36% that agreed that YES! it should be between a man and women only!

With 12% who were neutral and did not care one way or the other??

However of the 52% - 32% were either between the ages of 18 - 34 years and/or unmarried so the question must be asked (1) what does anyone under 25 years know about life let alone marriage?? (2) how can any unmarried person make a judgment on the sanctity of marriage or otherwise having never experienced it???

Anyway no experienced pollie or political party would chance their political livelihood on 52% fore 36% against with 12% undecided ( total 48% ) especially when you read and take into account all the other results that were taken ie;religion, state, men/women, ideology, politics, etc; and the 2013 election where the (2) parties that promoted gay marriage such as the Greenies and Labor were dumped ie; Labor lost 17 seats - Greenies down (9%) in Tasmania their once home town/stronghold and 3.3% nationally plus they look like their going to get really hammered in the next state election?? however Labor/Greenies are so ideologically driven and politically thick that like lemmings they will continue towards the political abyss!!

Lets take the Act for instance where with a population of some 379,000 or about 1.7% of the Aussie population - not much bigger than a large mainland municipality?! - we have a minority Labor mob in conjunction with the lonely Greenie by the name of Shane Rattenbury ( alias the King Maker! ) are going to take on the other 98.3% or 22,627,000 - that's million! - and the huge cost to the Aussie tax payers as a whole - not just the Act mob - in regard to legal fees alone when- not if!! - their " Mickey Mouse " legislation is passed recognising gay marriage based purely on ideological grounds

?? or in the case of the Deputy Chief Minister/Treasurer Andrew Barr as a practicing

homosexual I believe because of self interest!!

Ok people if your part of the Aussie majority speak up because I don't know about you but I am very fed up of  having too pick up the financial cost/tab for these minorities and at the same time being told to just shut up and cop it otherwise I will be accused of discrimination, racialism, homophobia, xenophobia and/or any other label they can attach to me??

Mike.

" The ABC Gay/Lesbian Promotions Team Swing into Action "!!!

Well people various ABC management/staff must be frothing at the mouth and wetting their collective knickers/underpants in anticipation at the thought that finally Andrew Barr and his Labor mob along with their offsider the pathetically lonely Act Legislative Assemblies only Greenie Shane Rattenbury are going to thumb their collective noses at the Federal Government and the Aussie population in general and pass a bill allowing same sex marriage in the Act over the next month or (2) so much so that the ABC Gay/Lesbian promotion team swung into full action today - 19/9/2013 - on the ABC Radio as follows:

1. First cab off the rank to be interviewed was the Chief Minister for the Act Katy Gallagher who stated that the bill could be legally challenged by the federal government and/or dissolved by both houses of parliament however it was an election promise!! but bugger the legal cost hey Katy??

2. Second cab off the rank you hear the Act Attorney General Simon Corbell announcing it in the Assembly then the applause from the public gallery!!

3. Third cab of the rank is a mother? name? of a son who is gay who stated what a great idea - or words to that effect?? that??-that this bill was being put through?? notice the confidence!! no if's might or but's it was going through!! yet it has not even been debated yet?? what an undemocratic dictatorial farce!!

4. Fourth cab off the rank was the illustrious yet lonely Act Greenie Shane Rattenbury who stated that the Greens ( plural??) maybe he is so full of his own importance as a king maker - because without his support Katy and her Labor mob would not be in power the L & NP would be!! he has forgotten that there were (4) Greenies in the Act but the voters - quite rightly in my view sacked the other (3)!! and Rattenbury- like Andrew Barr - just got over the line by the skin of their collective teeth!!

Rattenbury when questioned about the re-action of the federal government he - in my view - quite cockily stated that thanks to the ex Senator and Greenie Leader Bob Brown who talked the Gillard Labor government into changing the federal law where previously under Howard a Minister had the power to over ride the Act Legislative Assembly law's now it takes a majority of both houses to over turn any law's!! Ha! Ha! that wirily old Bob Brown verses the gullible do anything to stay in power Gillard Labor mob?? Bob planning for the future maybe?? like now!!

Well people that was it!! and apart from a very brief mention of some barrister discussing federal marriage and stating the Act reference number there were No!! other dissenting points of view/arguments?? no interview with the Act Opposition Leader Jeremy Hanson?? and from my past experience - which  I have stated numerous times in previous mike's comments!! there is no doubt in my mind there will be more than just pro-bias promotion of gay/lesbian marriage within various facets of the ABC organisation ie; Q&A? Insiders? Adam Hills Show? 7.30 Report? you watch people this ABC mob are so fanatical pro gay/lesbian that in my view they just can't help themselves!! ? the Abbott mob should take a serious look at the ABC's special promotions funding??!

Ok people let us take a quick look at this " Mickey Mouse " government in the form of the Act Legislative Assembly which is no doubt about to embark on a very disruptive and costly - using scarce tax payers funds - to satisfy the needs of a certain minority! in your face! noisy! aggressive ! with inside political muscle/influence bunch of Aussies that have a certain - whether declared or not - sexual preference!!

1. The Act government has delivered the biggest deficit in the territories history -

     - $381 million dollars!!

2. The Act government has a projected deficit of $117.6 million for 2013-14!!

3. It is estimated that the federal governments (tax payer funded) employees represent about 26% of the Act population and as we are fully aware that the Abbott mob are about to reduce that somewhat drastically and this is undoubtedly going to have an negative effect on the Act economy which as I have shown is already experiencing massive deficits!!

So people who is the Treasure responsible/accountable for the Act deficit debacle???

Well the none other than the illustrious Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr!!

Maybe the tax payers and citizens of the Act should demand that the Treasurer/Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr should spend more valuable tax payer funded time on the Act economy and less time on under mining the federal governments- and as a consequence the Aussie populations! - marriage Act and the planning of his wedding ceremony to his partner Anthony Tom??

In my view the Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr should abstain from voting because of his conflict of interest!!

Ok people speak up and make sure these pollies at all levels of this over governed country of ours are made accountable in just how they spend our hard earned scarce tax payers funds because why should the majority of the population miss out because of a noisy in your face politically influential minority whoever they maybe???

Mike.

" Well let's see what this L&NP mobs can do??? "

G/day and welcome to my first feel good mike's rant under the Abbott Administration!

I state feel good because thanks to those that have developed the modern technology in the way of computers/internet I can get whatever is getting up my nose off my chest - ? how is that for a couple of well known distinctive Aussie analogies?? and if I was religious ?? which I am not!! I could thank some mythical messiah ? God? or religious super natural power for allowing these intelligent,knowledgeable people too be amongst us and therefore have this very precious technology!!

Now to be up front from the start up in the New England Nsw area - Gods ( whoever take your pick? ) Own Corner of the world - where I live I voted (1) John Girle - Palmer United Party (2) Jamie McIntyre Independent -was the 21st Party but did not get it registered in time due to some administration problem I gather within the Electoral Commission?? and then good old Ex Senator now  the Member for New England Barnaby Joyce who in my view having heard Barnaby on the ABC Radio during many years in the Senate so-called debating the various bills put before them would be a bloke you would have a beer with in a pub and/or invite to a B-B-Q but that's about where I would leave it!!! obviously only time will tell if he will get re-elected in (3) years
time??

I put the nearest thing - in my view- to an Aussie Communist/Socialist party that being the Greens a Pat Shultz - nothing against the lady personally it is her parties policies I disagree with!! LAST!!

It always amazes me why the current and still serving another term Nsw Senator Doug Cameron has not joined the Greens full time he has so much in common with them ie;gay marriage! refugees/asylum seekers! a price on carbon! all got negative responses- no matter what political spin Labor and the like's of Doug Cameron put on it - from the majority of voters on the 7/9/2013!!

The reason I voted for the Palmer mob is that as a successful retired businessman that ran his own enterprises for some (25) years and previous to that managed other peoples and I might add even in tough financial times-we all have them from time to time!! - I never once in my 54 year working life ever put my hand out for the tax payers welfare because I like millions of my generation managed!! unlike the welfare dependent nation we have become!! bunch of bloody wimps!! and as such believe in the Palmer mobs policies in regard to governments do not create wealth and therefore jobs!! it's private enterprise that does and that governments at all levels of this over governed country of ours just spends tax payers funds because they don't have any funds of their own to spend!! therefore we need to reduce the size of governments at all (3) levels and relieve the tax burden across the board!! and scrap these unneccessary Greenie/bureaucratic restraints that have accumulated over the decades and that continues to stifle innovation,investment etc; then and only then will we kick start this great countries economy and make us more competitive on the world stage!!

In all my years of managing either my own or other peoples enterprises never once!!! I repeat never once!! did any government at any level of this over governed country of ours do anything of any consequence to reduce my costs and boost my bottom line!!

In fact very much to the contrary because every year one or all of them loaded me up with additional either more taxes! fees!charges! and/or new government rules and regulations all ofcourse reduced my profitability because in such a competitive - something 80% of pollies who have never managed their own enterprises would have not the faintest idea in regard to the meaning of the word competitive unless in a political sense!! - world it is not always possible to pass on these cost impediments consequently I have to reduce my costs by in many cases laying of valuable staff - pity they don't lay off more of these unproductive red tape generating pollies/bureaucrats??

The pollies/bureaucrats will state that governments at all levels set the agenda??frame work?? settings for a more prosperous job generating economy?? absolute       "RUBBISH"!!!!!!!

Governments at all levels are so far behind the times they are light years behind private enterprise so much so they are continually playing catch up at all levels of the economy - by the time most of the political seat warmers have stopped playing politics and produce some sort of legislation it's out of date/redundant anyway!!

The only time any of our (3) levels of government set the agenda? frame work? settings?? is when out of the blue they load us up with more taxes! fees!charges! and government - bureaucratic job creating!! - legislation and government red tape!!!

Ok people speak up or cop the consequences because if you believe that your responsibility to yourself? your loved ones? and future generations ended by ticking off a few boxes on a ballot paper then you must be pathetically bloody naive and therefore deserve all you get so don't whinge when the proverbial hits the fan and you cop a full dose!!

Mike.