04/09/10.
At this drearily exciting time, with Australia's federal government still undecided, perhaps the opportunity exists for us, or for the 3 Amigos and the other "cross-benchers" newly elected to Canberra, to really-actually-truly "make a difference" by demanding from the major parties, a few simple yet fundamental and fabulously important changes to how we are governed?
We must get to the core of why Australia's parliamentary system costs so much, yet achieves so little.
So little?
As scientific evidence pours in from Credible sources on the current state of the environment, on trade, on our cultural degradation, on the increase in maladies of the Soul, or, of the mind, on what's best for a healthy society, etc etc., its clear that as an organism, made-up of some 7 billion people, we, Humanity, are riddled with a most invasive and terminal cancer.
Corruption is the cancer we attract to ourselves and to our society, while we refuse, from being forced into living under such awry laws, to speak-up for, march for and PROTEST for the best known and most scientific methods of managing ourselves and the world around us.
Physical cancer is contracted due to poor lifestyles, poor living conditions, poor foods and poor attitudes. All of these result from poor or inefficient cultures.
Cultures which promote unhealthy habits and unhealthy products for consumption can only be efficient, or profitable, for the provider/capitalist, and only for as long as the majority ignorantly accepts them, and nobody outlaws them.
The eventual cost to the consumer and to the society from trends of eating unhealthy foods and drinks, and from such gross inefficiencies as products which take valuable land out of production, which waste energy and fuels, and which pollute the environment, will be the death of that consumer and society.
As we are today, what we loosely call the Australian culture, is in fact the worst culture known.
There is little evidence that governments of the last 109 years have steered the nation in any Honorable, that-is Honest direction, with most sittings and policies adding the most inefficient complexities to how the nation is run.
The evidence is plentiful telling us that most 'parliamentarians', particularly in the 1st 150 years from 1788, entered politics merely to both sure-up their own opulent lifestyles, and as a means of accumulating ever-MORE wealth. (Refer “The Land Boomers” by Michael Cannon. 1st published in 1966 by Melb Uni Press.)
It surely is simple logic, that such private considerations offer only inefficiencies for the greater populace?
So where then, have we seen decisive examples of our major parties making genuine efforts to do the right thing and make our government as efficient as possible?
Yeah.
We are all products of our experiences.
Experiences educate us one way or another, and we can't predict what will happen to us from minute to minute, so we cannot know what events, emotional, traumatic or joyous will “educate” us to be balanced people, or not.
Therefore a healthy society ensures that the young are educated to know how to cope in unpredicted circumstances, and ensures that education, formal education, teaches youth and adults-to-be how to think and thus react to any given event, as well as ensure that their minds process experiences correctly and 'safely', so that any reaction to a situation does not make the plight of the person worse.
Clearly this is what education should be doing for us, so that we “prosper”, as individuals and as a group, as well teaching us in other fields, the sciences and specialities of those fields.
A person, or an whole society, who feeds on low-grade foods, will suffer. But that suffering is caused by a poor education, where they are not taught to eat healthy and avoid junk foods.
So it is with all areas of a person's life. That they were 'educated' to accept that an adult male is an adult - is A MAN - because they drive big and fast motorcars, is not an education at all.
Neither is a person “educated” if they are attracted to employment in an unsustainable, polluting or generally unhealthy industry.
By "educated" I do NOT mean at an expensive "private" church college, followed by a few years at a university.
I use the word in the general sense, because most every event we experience "educates" us one way or another.
Those of us, and of the last 100 years most all Australian children, who received this kind of false doctrine (being led to think a man is only a man if he drives a V8 car), have not been educated at all, but have been seduced by the never-too-exposed untrue, immoral, unethical and of Environmental Law, illegal culture of advertising and marketing, which always places, not the children, nor the families, nor the larger Communities, nor the nation or planet, and especially NOT the environment, but their own ad-agency employees' egomania and wealth accumulation first.
So any government which panders to such large and powerful bodies as the motor vehicle industry, or to large industries which offer unhealthy products or culture, be they junk food corporations, or corporations which profit from dangerously inefficient social designs, perhaps the most dangerous being those who promote, build and sell the least efficient cultural designs known - nuclear family homes, suburbs and the grossly wasteful infrastructures and extras invented to cater for them - are not governments at all, but are the curse we little unwise voters wish upon ourselves.
And worse, such malignant misgovernment puts the classical “seven-fold curse” on future generations.
Appointees hired to slash public service employee numbers are really just fiddling 'round the edges, and while each big party promises changes one way or the other, but usually in election campaigns both parties promise reduced public service personnel, out of media scrutiny as the term passes, numbers grow again.
And reductions of P.S. Employees, done to reduce government expense, is usually silently contradicted by the absurd over-use of “consultants”.
Consultants as a concept is not wrong.
But parting with ridiculous fees, often in the millions, to small, in-favour and select specialist “private” consultation organisations, and as often to large multinational offshore corporations, to advise on proposed projects, has never been profitable for any government.
Most 3rd world nations who allow private, upclub "Non-Government-Organisations" NGOs, in to "help" in a crisis, can attest to the false economy of such ventures, because there is little evidence that NGOs do benefit 3rd world nations in the long term. But OH! what a boon they are to 1st world uni graduates who want to ponse-up their curricula vitae (CVs)!
A “secure” or impartial survey might well also expose just how far from Balanced design, costing, management, and outcomes for government, projects AND for the actual Community, private consultants are?
As an option to expensive private consultants, can our governments leap up-to cooperative consultation?
I'm brought to think of the phenomenal success of “Open Source” computer operating systems such as the Sun Microsystem's Open Office software. Without the exorbitant expense of “private” consultings, and profit-based computer software developers, this public domain, where members of the public, from the field of computer programming contribute for no charge to the development of what has become a brilliant and efficient computer O/S, have produced a “world's best” computer system.
After decades of being told we must have capitalism and a competitive 'free market' to progress, and to develop the best systems, machines and products, etc, it cannot be denied that cooperation is better than competition. So why can't government's work on the same basis?
Good Government can only be efficient government. So any unnecessary out-goings, especially where “services”, services management or administration are duplicated, and sometimes triplicated, is ungovernance, and should attract a serious negative mark against their names, come each election.
But again, this can only occur once the populace has been Properly educated. And none of the Australian generations of the 20th century have been Properly Educated in the issues and matters of most importance to efficient and benevolent government, nor in fact, in the issues and matters of most importance to the security and future of the persons and their progeny.
It astounds me that we can all sit-back so blithely as we send students off to schools which teach courses in what are the least efficient methods of government, production, trade, accumulation of wealth - personal and social - and call these courses, “economics”!?
Any inquiry into the dominant economic dogma taught to students of accountancy, economics, commerce, business and of government, will expose just how far from good government our world and our people are.
The basic lines taught in mainstream secondary and tertiary economics courses, are based on near-totally untrue information, and ask students to quietly accept the dogma without serious inquiry as to it's scientific veracity and merit, focusing instead on passing exams, by being able to recall the bullshit verbatim on exam day, mainly, in the end, to satisfy the statisticians of the schools or of the government's education ministry.
As a consequence, the “finance” industries, of dominantly private-profit-centred loan-sharks, banks, corporate projects and social and cultural design, have led the nation and the world down a path to near-complete collapse of the environment, of government and thus of social order and of any True, beneficial progress.
So it is fundamental that all governments AND parliaments in Australia focus on their own efficiencies and inefficiencies, obviously with the primary aim of eliminating the inefficiencies, and the most obvious area for the nation to begin is to eliminate duplication or triplication of services, management, and administration by reducing from 3-to-2 our federal system.
We are well passed the time where we should eliminate the middle-tier of our states' and territory governments.
This, duplication or triplication of services, management, and administration, is most outrageous in our three-tier, federal, state and local council system of ungovernance. A system which is so complex, out-of-date and inefficient, it's impossible for Good Government to manifest, let alone function.
All politicians have always been eager to spruke the "virtues" of their own governments, and all oppositions have always been eager to condemn governments. But none of them have ever been willing to go the BIG step by proposing to actually do something to enhance the mechanisms of a nation's management, by trimming it down where it can be.
As Australia is, the majority are so corrupted in terms of good management of self and of community, that any notion of instituting Scientific, Honest economic management to the umbrella of government would as likely be met with every kind of protest and, subversion.
Any incumbent government would be forced out in a flash.
And the replacement government, were that still an option, would only get there and stay there because they pandered to the further corrupting of and from impartial government, and of an already completely criminal society and culture.
Civil war or so, would be the only possible prospect for such a beggared nation.
If Australia's Greens, and the Independents are serious about ensuring “stable government” when they make their final decisions on who to support, surely they must place at the top of the list of reforms, reducing our horrendously inefficient and corrupt 3-tier system of government?
Sustainable societies are self-sustaining, with minimal need for the essentials to have to travel long distances to reach them.
But local communities, to the size of local councils, have no hope of achieving sustainability while they do not have authority over what is done with, and what is produced on their land-mass.
While deals can be done out of reach of the people who will be effected, in such as state or federal government rooms, halls, golf courses, toilets, private interest will steal the health and well-being of the locals, and that locality will fall into decline.
The only way for a community, council or nation to ensure the best options for the polity, is to make sure the decision-making process on issues, matters industries and types of employment that come from investment, are firstly efficiently done, and secondly, are within reach of the locals.
As well, it is imperative that decisions are made without any member forcing one argument or another because of personal economic concerns or interests.
The best way to ensure this doesn't corrupt the processes of government, is to remove the burden totally, of unjust, ineffective and thus inefficient costs and taxes on the whole body-politic.
This is or has to be a “Cultural Reform”, which reduces the insane craving the capitalist culture forces on us, primarily to secure a roof over our heads, then, the after-effects from giving more than is moral of our earnings to speculative land and commodity prices.
After-effects of cheap food intake, economic stress leading to unreasonable disputes, escapism through crime, violence, drugs and/or alcohol, division across families and communities, more violence, deprivation of a peaceful environment, inability to think and to live economically, crime, and worst of all imprisonment.
Police, that immoral band of protectors of corruption, are a product of the huge inefficiencies enshrined in our methods of government.
If the government, and therefore the culture and the society were given public voter support to eradicate the inefficiencies of this our 3-tier system, through the Science of Revenue Collection of Land Tax, and scaling-down to "Local Councils under a federal umbrella", the societies' need for coppers would be reduced by an huge extent.
All aspects of everyone's life would be easier, as economic demands become reasonable and fair, we'd have to work less, worry less about wages and expenses, and more time to think clearly about what we want to make of our lives.
But it all begins, with Good Education.
Good Education is not Good if it is not Honest.
If economics' education is not Honest, the only result will be corruption of society, of culture and of our minds, and an ever-rising crime rate.
We are unable to progress beyond the anachronistic structures of over-government because the voting public has been forced to accept the most pernicious systems of taxation and false education in economics.
We are addicted to inefficient lives and are unable to break with those “rum corps” ways, so that we might 1stly learn new tricks, then from that education, vote for Good, Efficient Government.
So while the 3 Amigo Independents ponder which side they will support, they might be well advised to consider these rambling points about efficient government being the backbone of a secure, stable, healthy and prosperous nation.
From that I'd hope they see the Rightmindedness of including in their demands serious changes to the 3-tier system of mis-governmentation, down to a two-tier system.
3-to-2! Gentlemen! 3-to-2!
Guaranteed to simplify your.., and everyone's tasks!
Not going there, I say, I say, will expose your insincerity.
Going there, will mean you are serious about ensuring we have, “stable government”, and stable government for a lot longer than the next 3 year election cycle.
And, also, "Proportional Representation" as advocated by the Greens Member of the House of Representatives, Adam Bandt, cannot not be supported by our apparently Impartial 3 Amigo Independents Bob Katter, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, if they are SERIOUS about ensuring Good and Stable government.
From the Travelling 4x4 Tent of
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Outlaw, for GLOBAL
Land,
Tax,
Housing,
Agricultural,
Cult,
Drug,
Work,
Education and
Environmental
LAW REFORM
Uluruba.
