ADFA might be closed

Mælinar said :

How to stop this happening ? I do have answers, but it involves eugenics and a deal of single women in flowy clothes currently employed as teachers with a chip on their shoulders the size of Greece being immediately sacked, to be replaced with grumpy old bastards and witches with no hesitation to use the cane if necessary, among other things.

I agree with the bit about the angry lefty teachers.

Very old story kids.

Dave_K said :

The Liberals could do Canberra over in ’96 cause it was a solid Labor town. Labor does its own over because that ‘s just the way the Labor Party works. Learn to swing, Canberra.

Dead right, Dave. Both parties take our votes for granted – ALP because they have them, and Libs because they will never have them (until we change our voting patterns). All well and good voting on issues, but we need to start voting strategically.

Hmm .. empty Army base + huge influx of illegal immigrants … BINGO ! His Chiefliness might yet get his wish of being host to large numbers of boat people.

The snippets and whispers about the upcoming budget are certainly feeling like ’96 again. And kicking Canberra always plays well with the sheep in the rest of Australia.

The Liberals could do Canberra over in ’96 cause it was a solid Labor town. Labor does its own over because that ‘s just the way the Labor Party works. Learn to swing, Canberra.

CPSU are useless. Back when the Howard gov’t started abolishing the CES (it was leaked to me that they’d “sought costings” and the leaker was basically telling me that we were gone, get out), the CPSU’s tactics were to use Labor numbers to block it in the Senate. The Howard gov’t totally out-manouvered them by not legislating the abolition at all, but using executive powers. CPSU failed utterly. I’ll never give them a cent.

I don’t think we complained BEfore the Howard cuts either.

it is wait and see at the moment. I’m getting a wee bit nervous though…

@beasley and schenanigans – firstly, Canberra is kind of reknown for voting on its conscience rather than its wallet, a good point to remember when implying that Canberrans have put themselves on the sword by voting in labor.

Further, its not difficult to ascertain (apart from you idiots with blinkers on) that the machinery of Government changes that are occuring are simply an alignment towards labor policy over liberal policy. What took a divison of personnel across several departments to deny that climate change existed to all parties concerned now takes only one person to say, yeah we signed onto Kyoto, ktksbye. For example…

Yes those people in the most part have been rather redundant since Krudd went to Bali.

Of concern is the ramping up, on silent mode, of the transitional sections that were last ramped up during the Keating and Howard purges. To date I haven’t heard any mumblings from the CPSU, nor wider Government, of why that may be necessary, even though the purpose of the sections is to transition several thousand staff.

Lets wait for the budget.

Given I, among others, routinely pay my surcharge into the CPSU, I have a legit complaint that those cnuts are fcuking me over bigtime by not telling me anything – but hey, thats just a perception from the sceptical street. I dont lay blame with the Government for doing what I kind of expect them to do, however the implication I’m laying on those who are meant to be looking after my interests couldn’t be more direct.

I’ll leave it there. They can read between the lines. My only after comment is; I’m not alone and prepare to be taken over – to those who will take note of that statement.

Of bigger concern, at least on a personal level, is the growing divide between capability and personnel. While the labor government is in an envious position of being more popular than the scout with the M&M’s, the capacity of the incumbent public service is diminishing, at a great rate of knots.

This ties in with my perception of have’s and have nots. The house ownership/rental divide is being recognised, and the boundaries have been drawn. People who own houses now, will own houses in the future, and those who do not, will never own property.

Not owning property relegates you to the spectrum of life that I’ll just call bogan. It involves your entire wage being sucked up in a $50k+ 4wd, a household that involves some kind of deal with Freedom Furniture or similar hire purchase agreement for absolute shit furniture, continual outgoing rent, and the continual reinforcement that dropping your children off at school is some kind of analogy towards being a tough trucker delivering your cargo, or that Target can magically replace all of your bathroom linen at the touch of a button just because your mother in law is over.

Those people, with their diminished view of the world, become our next layer of shop assistants, woolies checkout operators, and general nohopers without a cause – we all know the typeset.

In opposition, those who have access to free money (like rental income for example) will be putting their children into private schools, educating them, and they will be the highly valued and ever more rare managers holding the skeleton together.

My personal bet is they’ll fail, because there wont be enough of them, but I’m optimistic they may pull through in some form.

As the pool of have’s grows smaller, the world will recess at a phonenomenal rate. Its not hard to see the first twinges of whats coming up when you read the rabid input of those who come by this site even on the occasional news/gossip tip.

How to stop this happening ? I do have answers, but it involves eugenics and a deal of single women in flowy clothes currently employed as teachers with a chip on their shoulders the size of Greece being immediately sacked, to be replaced with grumpy old bastards and witches with no hesitation to use the cane if necessary, among other things.

Food for thought anyway. I’m off to bed cause I’ve drunk way to much.

Actually, IF it is true, maybe it’s actually a “weening Canberra off the pubic spervant way of life” type of policy. Heh. Look out…….May our riotact posts will go un-moderated also.