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Showing posts with label NSW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSW. Show all posts

Friday, March 25, 2011

Demi-Crazy ... and the NSW State Election March 26th 2011


Tomorrow NSW goes to the polls and this week our letter boxes have been busier than ever. Political leaflets have been supplemented by personalised letters. Yesterday we received 3 from the ALP alone, each personally addressed to us, and one to someone I've never heard of.

So tomorrow when you go to vote don't give a second thought to those letters the candidates posted out to everyone on the electoral rolls don't think what happens about the mystery names at your address.

Lots of people get them, they aren't the people who lived there years ago who haven't change their address, don't worry about them.


... After all who would go to the trouble of having additional names and addresses on the electoral roll?

... And tomorrow if, when you go to vote you find that you aren't even on the electoral roll, don't sweat it, it actually happens to quite a lot of people. ... .... 

... ... You will still be able to vote.


Don't let it worry you if you find your neighbours and entire street don't even appear on the electoral roll anywhere either.

It is still one person one vote, isn't it? ... ... 

... ... Turn It Up.








P.S. ... Post Script


Demi-crazy ...
(a play on the words democracy . demi-crazy like democracy is half crazy ............., yes I know it is lame when you have to explain it......, but when I typed this up I liked it because many people like to believe the facade of Australian democracy but if you spend enough time around elections you do wonder how accurate the one person = one vote whole thing really is....I'll keep asking and keep getting the same answers and the more I see the less I'm convinced the system is exactly and perfectly neatly.

Now I'm often asked can you prove corruption and no, I cannot, but the electoral commission cannot prove there isn't corruption, or mistakes or errors etc at all, and it is their role to ensure the validity of the election, we need to get them to pick up and improve how elections are carried out to ensure the result represents what the people voted for and the result isn't "blurred" by mistakes or other errors or interfering. ) 

....and the N.S.W. State Election on March 26th 2011


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went to find the official site and found this one, good on the ACL for some clever website strategies




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UNDERSTANDING BAR-STOOL ECONOMICS AND THE CARBON TAX
http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/2011/03/bar-stool-carbon-tax-economic-modelling.html


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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Electricity sell off bill will be shocking to NSW customers


I wanted to quickly address some of the key points about the NSW electricity sell off.

The first thing we all need to understand is that for around two decades the prevailing chatter around NSW parliament has been about the important need to sell off energy production, the generation side, as well as the distribution and also retail sides of things before things got expensive to repair.


Now we need to understand the two main points raised about this:
The first one is that the Labor government it-self...is telling the public that it believes it can't run the electricity system as well as private enterprise.
Don't forget that one when you vote.
The second point is that someone needs to put into the system around ten or more billion dollars for new infrastructure, repairs etc.
And because the NSW Government doesn't want to find that money they are selling off a public asset in need of repair but the elephant in the room is no one wants to tell the customers where they money will actually come from.

It will be user pays, and anyone in NSW wanting to continue to use electricity not only will have to front up twhatever you get charged on your bill to repair an aging electricity system, but we will also have to cover over inflated management costs, watch profits go oversees and watch our electricity reliability dive.
But before all that bites too hard, in March the Labor party will ask the public to vote them back in to thank them...Turn It Up. I'm Michael Robinson

p.s.
Frankly I do NOT agree with that view.  Governments seem to have forgotten what being in government is all about.  They want to sell off what are essentially profitable public assets because they themselves can't bear to find money, money that private owners would.  So if private owners can find repair money, why can't governments?  Clearly they can but have made a policy decision .... you'd have to see it as a vote of no confidence in their own government wouldn't you?


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Proudly supported by:

I want to thank the team from Bow Bow Plumbing.
Commercial plumbing maintenance, based in (not limited to) the Sydney area.

I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 
Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.



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Where to Listen:
Turn It UP Mike Segment can be heard 
on Radio 2SM and stations on the Super Network
Monday to Friday with Grant Goldman.
http://www.2sm.com.au
click on Grant Goldman and Listen Live online

How to Contact
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Super Radio Network and
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