We may well end up with our first ever hung State parliament. I am sure the Indie’s will get a lot of votes. Will be interesting, I guess. *shrug*There is an Indie here where I live who is, at least, making the right noises (he seems to know what out local needs/wants are). Whether he can deliver anything is, of course, a whole other mater. *shrug* Still, I’ll give him a vote just because he seems to know what the problems actually are!
If anyone ever wanted to know what kind of a job an ignorant moron can do, look at politics. It’s a prerequisite apparently these days.
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]]>The Liberal leader Ted Bailieu own’s one of the biggest real estate agencies in Aus. When he was Liberal President, and the Lib’s were in power in Vic, the Lib’s closed dozens of schools, and his company *won* all the contracts and bought all the land. Then, the Lib’s closed a very much needed regional Hospital, and Bailieu won that contract as well, even though his company had never had such a contract before and had no experience with hazardous waste (chemical, radiological, and even lead & asbestos). When they demolished the hospital, there was a cloud of toxic waste spread for miles and miles!
As for Steve Bracks, current Labor State Premier of Vic… He has a penchant for making amazingly stupid decisions! It’s HIS fault Vic burned in Feb 2009, because he relented to some minority retarded tree huggers and stopped land clearing and burn-off’s around 2004. All the reports have now concluded there was far too much fuel available and once the fires got started, there was no stopping them, no matter what policies or procedures were in place. Then we have the Myki public transport ticketing system! Wat a joke!! It’s never worked, it’s way over budget (over $1.3bln so far, and the gov is about to throw another $300mill at it if they get re-elected! They say it will break even in 10 years. I don’t see how! It has cost the taxpayer so fat about $300 for every man/woman/child in Vic! Even if half of them use public transport (and they don’t), that’s $600 per user! Never gonna happen! They have trialed the system here where I now live for a year, I’ve never had so many free bus trips because the bloody thing doesn’t work! (Either the ticket computer has decided to shut down, or the readers at the doors won’t scan the card!) So, from the point of view of free travel, I love it! How do they make money from that? Morons! There are plenty of systems that work well they could have used, but they don’t have the *Big Brother* aspects this retarded Gov wanted! Myki tracks your every move, and the Police have access to that data. Well, they would, if it actually worked!
And then, the Desalination plant! It won’t work, it will be a black hole for money, and will do nothing for anyone outside of Melbourne! They have finally admitted it will be only useful as a last resort because it costs to much to run and maintain when it’s operating (estimates from $10-20 mill / year) that it will be turned off most of the time! It’s going to cost an estimated $4.9 bln to build! We would have to be paying $5/ltr per person to pay for it in 10 years! Cheaper to buy water by truckload! Also, the plant will use about 90-100 MWatts (or about 2200MWh per day) of power from the National grid, which is already strained! The plan is to build a new *coal-fired* power station to power the plant. Watch power bills skyrocket also. The plant will dump about 200 Megaliters of brine into the ocean off the Vic coast every year it’s operating. About 1.5 MTons of greenhouse emissions will be emitted during construction, and 1.2 MTons every year it operates. The plant when it’s operating will suck in 480 billion liters of seawater, and pump back 280 billion liters of saline concentrate that will kill all sea-life for many miles. The plant will be operated by a private company, and it’s estimated they will charge $1.5 bln over the 25 year life of the plant!
So… The choice is, a moron who is intent on bankrupting us all and destroying the State, or a crook who will pocket ever dollar he can! I think I’ll take the crook!
]]>We’re probably safer with the Dems on the sidelines, because own-goals are the only scoring they know how to do.
]]>– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
]]>Sigh. WASF.
– Badtux the Walking-oddly Penguin
]]>Yeah, I posted on his finally accepting the reality that Badtux and I saw. He suspected it at about the same time we did, but he was hopeful he was wrong. With luck, Obama will understand it is highly unlikely that he can be re-elected.
]]>What actually happened was that during the interregnum between the 1932 election and the1933 inauguration — which was much longer then, because the inauguration didn’t take place until March — Herbert Hoover tried to rope FDR into maintaining his policies, including rigid adherence to the gold standard and fiscal austerity. FDR declined to be part of this.
But Obama buys the right-wing smear.
More and more, it’s becoming clear that progressives who had their hearts set on Obama were engaged in a huge act of self-delusion. Once you got past the soaring rhetoric you noticed, if you actually paid attention to what he said, that he largely accepted the conservative storyline, a view of the world, including a mythological history, that bears little resemblance to the facts.
And confronted with a situation utterly at odds with that storyline … he stayed with the myth.
Yeah… As I’ve said before, he’s a righty in lefty clothes.
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