Is Canberra 2010 smelling the end of the Nationals?
19/08/10.
Comment on SMH article: “Barnaby throws the book at Greens”
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/barnaby-throws-the-book-at-greens-20100819-12ixk.html
How surprising that National party's Senator Barnaby Joyce is crowing about the Greens?
Thus far, in pre-election and polling evaluations on media, the one's I've watched or heard have made no mention of the health or otherwise of the Nationals?
Once the reports inform us that Labor is leading, or that the coalition is, the commentary most often goes straight over to how well the Greens are doing, by-passing totally any talk about the health or otherwise of the Nationals.
In some electorates they still hold influence and support, but in many, I think many think the National's time as a useful political party has passed.
Senator Bob Brown relishes the line that “the Greens are more popular in rural electorates than the Nats”.
So, are Barney and his rurals being left in the barnyard, wiff nought but a bucket of diesel and fertiliser to frow around?
“Senator Joyce told a Rural Press Club breakfast in Brisbane on Thursday that there were secret deals between the Greens and Labor that could see the reintroduction of death duties, a 50 per cent top marginal tax rate and an end to coal mining, live cattle exports, rodeos and fishing.”
I threw my copy of the black Biblic book into a billabong near Barmah last year, so cannot anymore refer to it's hollowed pages, but something tells me that in the old books of that Toric tome, “death duties, or taxes” are regarded as quite rightly collected, Righteous and Holy.
Perhaps “Leviticus” is where to look?
Were we the People educated in Honest and Scientifically Divined Economics, we would NOT find “death duties” as evil nor as offensive, nor as any plague on our wallets and pleasant inheritances etc.
Were our economies, anywhere on Earth, Just and Proper, “death duties” would be known by all tax-payers as a simple and most Just way of keeping the books balanced, and the society perennially in the black. Part of ….keeping the books balanced, and the society perennially in the black.
So Barny, being a white-skin as he is, and being schooled in a fancy church school as he probably was, should check his cult's big black book before he opens his anti-anything-that-might-be-JUST mouth.
His squeal about “...a 50 per cent top marginal tax rate” is the usual uptop, upclub, upemselves me-first whinge, which once again, shows his disdain for the Working Classes, and his ignorance on making the world a better place for everyone, even the top earners, by lessening the lower classes need for crime to get by, thus the current need to break-and-enter the houses of the rich.
And, as if to expose himself and his ignorance of the current most important issue - climate change - Barnie speaks as if the world will end, if a Greens-Guided government did the world's best thing, and put an end to coal mining?
This also exposes just how much the LAND OWNING and shipping-owning upper classes care nothing for the future environment, refuse to understand that coal is a fuel of the past, and that the rural political classes of Astrayliar are more interested in making mega-dollars from the lives of people to come!
Get a Soul! Barnie!
And..., if by devilry, the coalition won, HE'D be Deputy PM?!?!??!
Further to the exposure of the Nat's collective ignorance and paucity of Wisdom and Intellect, Barnaby Joyce cries-out that the Greens will put an end to “live cattle exporting”, even while other nations are stopping the practice anyway.
But....? Would that be such a tragedy? As more and more evidence pours in through all ventricles, that the beef industry is bad-bad-REALLY-BAD vibes for the planet's soils and air and downstream waters, for our own health, and for the methane/oxygen balance, and for many other fings..., does Barnaby Nat want us to keep making his rural lazy-arsed “farmers” (HAA!) rich while everything else is gassed to cow-fart-hell?
These bastards will say anything for power!
Rodeos and fishing?
Hmmm....?
Would that, a ban on rodeos, mean I'd have to move out from my ute's tray, Barnie? (it's a Holden.... Rodeo! Hahahahaha!)
Fishing?
“OH! They're only FISH! And THEY don't VOTE!!!”
As the federal leader of the National party, Barnie Joyce's attacks on Wisdom, Intelligence and Honor of Green policies, surely spells the end of that 19th century “squatter's party”?
Perhaps a shame, more so, perhaps, since Barnie scammed his way into Canberra by telling voters he advocated something called “zonal taxation”, which, to my critical eye-er-ear, sounds delightfully like the Ground Rent tax which the Henry Tax Review recommended?
Funny that I, at least, have heard and read NOTHING about “zonal taxation” since that fateful election of Mr Joyce.
Typical?
Will Barnie even hold his seat, after Saturday?
Oh! Half Senate....!
LUCKEEE!
“He said he also feared for the future of Australia's $500 million rice industry, which exports to more than 70 countries, including many poor African nations.
Senator Joyce said the Labor government was unwilling to release the plan for the Murray-Darling Basin because of the Greens deal.
"If you take the capacity to feed 20 million people out of the top of the chain then there's someone on the bottom of the chain that doesn't get fed - somebody you haven't seen, some person living in Kenya, some person living in southern Sudan who doesn't get fed because you made the decision that you weren't going to grow rice," he said.
"So how many people do we want to starve to death because of this decision?
"What is the appropriate moral bounce? Is it appropriate that 10,000 people starve to death or maybe 20,000?"
Hmmm?
Putting the Murray Darling basin into fallow until we can clean-up our deeply errant farming (HAAA!) practices, NOW, may well stop the profitable output of exported foodstuffs, and so a relatively paltry number of people overseas will have to scavenge food elsewhere. Not the best for them, and such a scenario is painful to me, as I have enormous admiration for the victims of colonialism in the horn of Africa, etc.
However, typical of Australian farmers (HAAA!) Barnie seems then to be advocating that our farmers (HAAA!) just keep on fucking the Basin?
Perhaps he believes we will one day be able to live off SALT?
Recent figures stated that Australian agriculture feeds 60 million people.
SIXTY MILL!
Now, that's a WOW!
And there are, worldwide.... 7 BILLION?
SIXTY MILL, aye?!
About zero-point-eight of one percent of the world's population!
(I might be wrong there?)
WOW!
Not even three times our own population?
The comparatively SMALL figure of 60,000,000 feeds, next to the total population of our Mother, of some 7,000,000,000 mouths, tells me that much of the passed trumpeting from our rural politicians and farmers (HAA!!) that we NEED the rice industry and the wheat industry and the meat industry and the canola.., and the.... lamb and the... pineapple industries etc etc., to “FEED THE WORLD” (unquote, Jeff Kennett in a 1990's pre-election spin, about rural Victoria) because the world is dependent upon our utterly pathetic, inefficient, polluting and unsustainable food industry and farmers (HAA!), even while we watch our rivers dry-up, our once - not long ago! - magnificently fertile plains such as - what's it's name again? OH! The Murray-Darling Basin - go irreversibly saline, our life-sustaining forests wood-chipped for Japan's gunpowder industry and Sveedun's IKEA, our Great Barrier Reef (YOURS BARNIE!!? QUEENSLAND'S!!!???) under threat from our (or from Queensland's) onshore farming (HAA!) practices, tells me that much of the passed trumpeting from our rural politicians and farmers (HAA!!) said today, would have radicals not unlike m'self scream “TREASON!!!”
Treason both for deceiving the rest of us about how fan-fuckin-tastic our farmers (HAAAA!!!!) are, about how good they are at growing food (HAA!), about how much we are responsible for keeping the poor bastards fed who have had THEIR land stolen from them by the likes of Barnie's bighouse colonialist buddies, and so have nowhere to grow their own, as they had since Eden, and “TREASON!!” because NOTHING they, our farmers (HAAAAA!) have done over the last 200 years has done anything whatsoever for the ongoing health and well being of the habitat.
Indeed? Our soils and their ability to keep producing, are in the worst condition they've ever been in!
So..., YEAH! Barnie! The world NEEDS us, aye, like Uranus needs YOUR brand of a false economy.
And like Australia needs the Nationals party.........
Sad I'm shooting at the Joyce, aye? I liked him once. But today, I don't think I like any white skin.
I can thank Australia's farmers (HAAAA!), and church cults, for that.
And apiarists....
And coppers. And NSW politicians. And the pope. And blonds. And the Theosophical Society of secretive, demonic witches. And me mum.
OH I SHOULDN'T LET IT GET SO PERSONAL, aye?
Vote GREEN, or die!
Oh! And
ARREST THE POPE!
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