A CHEAP HUMPY IS OUR COUNTRIES FUTURE

Everyone knows that the more money being thrown around the more expensive things become. It’s called the law of supply and demand.

Houses built by the government are always at least 50% dearer than those build for the private sector. The moment a contractor realises it’s a government tender he adds on at leat 25% and in some cases is then told he’s come in too low. Try that in the private sector.

Lets say a house and land package in Melbourne is around $750,000 and out our way, with land cheaper we might get away with house and land packages half that. These prices are not going to stay at that, they’ll go up around 10% a year, far higher thasn the C.P.I or the rate of inflation caused by overseas buyers wanting to park there cash in a safe haven, where money is portable and taxes are rortable. In around eight years my land has increased in value by nearly 400%, that’s bloody 25% a year in rough arithmatic, my grass is turning to gold why mine for it.

In the failing War On Terror, mainly because what we are doing to fight it is actually making it worse, like pouring battery acid on your cut finger, and turning back refugees from safety creates even more conflict when we are the ones that made them refugees in the first place.

All that aside we may have spent in and out of country 50 Billion Dollars that we need not have spent if George Junior and Halliburton Industries had not designed and planned the regime change of Saddam Hussein.

What would that money have bought us back home?

200,000 houses complete with essential services?

500 medium sized hospitals or the treatment of maybe 5 million patients?

1000 really pretty Schools?

There may have been no deficit, despite the fact we might not have sold as much steel to make tanks, bullets and bombs but then that would have all gone into high-rise apartment blocks.

With the average wage now nearing $1000 a week it means that an average family living off one income and paying off the house with the other would still have to suck up 30 years of pain and poverty and just have the house paid off in time to move yourself into a retirement village.

But like a bad gambler we have lost the lot - transferred it all into the pockets of overseas arms manufacturers and the makers of tents for at least 30 million displaced families. We have lost out too in employment and the flow-on benefits from the fact we no longer even make bullets or uniforms in Australia. This government was forced into even building our submarines. Now we don’t make cars, we won’t even refine our own petrol, we’ve sold off our gas and want to sell off even more at the expense of our environment. I’m sorry but I don’t believe our countries security should all be down to market forces.

There might be no real war at least into the foreseable future but that does not mean that we should sell our countries security to the stock exchange.