Exposing The BS Around The Globe

We are only 5 days away from the 2010 Federal elections and there are still many voters who are undecided which way they will vote. Naturally there are many voters who no matter what they will stick with the same party they have always voted for, whether that be the Labor Party or the Liberal Party. There are also those that don’t like either of the major parties and these are the voters that the Greens are aiming their campaigns at. You could almost say their using the old Democrats idea of ‘Keeping The Bastards Honest’ without actually saying that.

The main reason I won’t vote for the Greens is because I know they’re giving their preferences to Labor. I was disgusted to hear Bob Brown denying this when asked by a listener of the Leon Byner show. I mean what a load of bullshit that was. Almost every news bulletin you listen to you hear that Labor will scrape in on Green preferences and yet he denied it.

As far as I’m concerned Labor has sent Australia backward this term and no matter how often Julia says voting for her will move Australia forward I can’t see it on their past performances. She quoted today that she had 50 or so economists sign off on what a great job they’ve done and how it was their policy that kept us out of a recession. Man, I reckon you could also find 50 to say that it was all crap.

I’m not an economist but I reckon it’s safe to say that we were never in the same trouble as those overseas and while a stimulus was probably needed it could have been done without wasting the billions of dollars that the Labor squandered. Bob Brown says in his commercial that he voted for the stimulus package so he is also to blame for us having to pay $100 million a day in interest. Imagine all the good that could be done with that money.

I also remember him being pissed off because of Labors back-flip on the miners super tax. What a bloody wanker! That was the wrong move and should have been opposed not supported. I’m pretty sure I also heard him say after hearing that the banks made a record profit that they should also be hit with a super tax. Sure Bob, why not hit every company who manages to do well with a super tax.  As to the banks I would rather that make a profit than suffer the financial difficulties of the overseas banks that caused the financial crisis in the first place.

Speaking of banking I noticed the following on the Green’s blog;

The Greens introduced their Banking Amendment (Delivering Essential Financial Services for the Community) Bill 2010 in the last period of sittings. The Bill provides legislative protection for banking customers in a number of basic banking services:

• Minimising or removing fees from basic services;
• Ban $2 ATM fees;
• Introducing a variable rate mortgage product that will only permit genuine changes to the lender’s cost of funds to be passed on to customers;
• Capping the level of mortgage exit fees.

Yeah, let’s remove fees from basic services. That’s like asking someone to go to work and not get paid a proper hourly rate. Ban $2 ATM fees. Man they wouldn’t even have to pay that if they took the time to use the right ATM’s. The other two sound fair though.

He also quoted Fujitsu Consulting who estimated that, “on average, Australian households pay about $1000 per year on bank fees – roughly 22% more than UK householders and 10% more than the US.” Reckon I must be doing something wrong then because I only paid $286 in bank fees last year and if I took the overdraft service fees off that it would only have been $118. Shit, I’m happy with that. Perhaps all that’s needed is for people to shop around for the best deal. As for the last two, well I don’t see anything wrong with them.

While the Greens say that the Liberal policies will end up costing Australian more it seems that they’re really no better, miners super tax just one thing that springs to mind. It seems that the Greens are intent on Australia taking the lead in regards to climate change, the only problem with that is there doesn’t seem to be any point if we’re the only one doing it. Seems to me that it will only make us more uncompetitive costing us money and jobs.

I was really interested in their nuclear policy, as I see that as a step in the right direction as far as green energy is concerned, but they seem to be a bit antiquated as far as nuclear energy is concerned stating it is “not a safe, clean, timely, economic or practical solution to reducing global greenhouse gas emission.” I think they are wrong and that Australia is in the best position for nuclear energy and are lagging behind other countries by not taking it on.

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