SMOKE AND MIRRORS NO LONGER CONFINED TO MAGICIANS

Duty, Levy, Toll, Tariff, Excise, Charge, Fine and Rates are all the variations used to circumvent the use of the word Tax. The only upfront use of it is when it is combined with Goods, Services, Income and Payroll. I’m not sure what they call the motza derived from the dozens of forms of legal gambling that they pretend to rail against.

I believe that it is time that all levels of government fully disclose before every election how they intend to raise government funds, in what amounts and where they intend to spend it and how many people they will need to spend it. No longer should we have to put up with the smoke and mirrors of what they will spend over the next four years. Like the banks it screens the real income and expenditures from scrutiny.

Each year they announce a four-year spending plan which is the same money they announced three years ago. Four years is also the distance between elections which gives them the chance to announce another expense over four years which will never be spent because it doesn’t exist, it was called something else the year before.

The Stimulus Package was the same. A Billion Dollars promised by the Federal Government to build Public Facilities just happened to be the same Billion Dollars that the State Governments promise to build Public Facilities and the same Billion Dollars that the Local Councils claimed they were going to spend on Public Facilities. Nobody knows whose money they are spending and that’s just how they like it.

To put in a Carbon Tax as an excuse for us to cut the country's carbon emissions while at the same time scrap subsidies which allow ordinary people to cut their own carbon emissions is just another way we are being hood-winked out of our money by rapacious politicians and public servants bent on moving public money into corpoarte supporters pockets.

It's about time we got off our fat behinds, me included, and started to take back control of our own country. Now where did I put that bloody speed camera ticket?

LINTON GOES MENTAL

An idea promptly stamped out by Frazer following the demise of Whitlam in the 70’s was the concept of decentralising some statutory authorities and government departments to regional areas of the country to stem the greed induced unfettered growth of our capitol cities. Despite the fact it’s choking on its own vomit but still supposedly one of the worlds most unloveable cities Melbourne is growing faster than any other city. This may be due to the fact, like Stanley Kramer’s movie ‘On The Beach’ that it would be the last major city on the planet to survive a nuclear winter or nowadays a warming planet.

NSW did it moving the State Planning Authority to Orange, and the State Emergency Services to Wollongong and now Victoria is talking about moving VicRoads to Ballarat. These days with information technology booming and the NBN supposedly sending things around faster it matters little where anyone is provided there are enough trained people to do the work required.

It is now possible for Linton to invite semi-autonomous organisationss or quasi-authorities to relocate to Linton, after all we have the expertise here. This is why we are suggesting that ‘The Centre For The Criminally Insane’ be relocated to our village. With lots of tender loving medication and new modern padded wards and private rooms it would be an asset for the future as our world becomes more insane by the year. We would never have to fear running out of customers thus assuring permanent employment for many local residents.

One only has to think of the supply of occupants coming from within the workforce of Golden Pains Shire Council alone. One drawback may be that we will need many more qualified Psychiatrists with multiple personalities to understand all those of Linton who suffer from the same malady.

Where there is a will there is a relative who would also need to be accommodated near their loved ones. The flow on effect would be most beneficial as medicinal needs would also extend to a need for the Take-away to be able to stock more anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medicines.

An Outfitter specialising in white coats and nurses uniforms, a Farrier to make leg irons, a Milliner to make the many different hats that the inmates would want to wear, Quilters for security blankets, Fancy Dress suppliers to make happy those residents who think they’re Jesus, Napoleon or the Count of Monte Cristo. There are endless possibilities.

Lets start a petition now for the ‘Linton Centre for the Criminally Insane’ I’ll happily sign it if I can also have the opportunity to be the first to go there.