The Name Says It All

The origins of the word ‘labour’ is the obvious clue in what the Labor Party like to do and is all about.

Labor like to tax and as they say the proof is in the pudding. There have been around 20 new or increased taxes under the Rudd/Gillard Labor government.

The original meaning of the word ‘labour’ is tax. Labour in ancient Egyptian is effectively a synonym for taxes.

And despite dropping ‘u’ from their spelling they haven’t dropped the tax ideology. Labor seems to hold that ideal very dearly and live up to it whenever they can.

Whenever they can seems to be whenever they are in government. How do we prevent that from happening again? Remind people often enough that Labor really means tax. If people see Labor as ‘tax’ on the ballot paper they won’t vote for Labor.

What you can do Part 2: Can PM or MP Rudd survive the Carbon Tax election?

Following my stint in Brisbane's CBD, I was in Kevin Rudd's Brisbane electorate of Griffith doing my anti-carbon tax thing a few weeks ago, at a busy traffic intersection. 

Griffith is currently the only ALP seat in Queensland confidently predicted to be retained by the ALP at the next federal election so it is a great place to campaign.  I held up my favourite 'Voters will repeal carbon tax!' sign complete with a large cardboard face of its proud architect Prime Minister Gillard.

I was greeted with the usual steady stream of tooting, grinning truck, car and motorbike drivers with many calling out messages of support as they passed by. Just two people were unhappy to see me during my hour in Rudd-land.

Every single one of the nine pedestrians who crossed at the lights beside me smiled and said "I agree with you" or something similar.

A gentleman on crutches even hobbled across the road to greet me. He introduced himself as a 68 year old retired cleaner, a former member of the Miscellaneous Workers' Union and a life-long ALP voter residing in Griffith. He then said that because of the Carbon Tax he would never vote ALP as long as he lived.

Rudd's popularity versus Gillard's may well be discounted by Griffith voters. The issue for many will be that he betrayed every one of them by voting to enact the very Carbon Tax his party vowed before the last election not to introduce.

Rudd's possible elevation from Foreign Minister to Prime Minister is no guarantee of re-election for his government or for himself against a focused Tony 'Repeal Carbon Tax' Abbott.

Just ask those who voted at the 2007 federal election in former Prime Minister Howard's Sydney electorate of Bennelong!

If you are not a fan of the tax, here's something you can do. Ask people you meet "Do you think the Carbon Tax will be repealed?" If you have any doubts yourself, just stand beside a road anywhere in Australia with a REPEAL CARBON TAX sign.

Another thing, tell everyone of voting age to put The Greens last!

Tempe Harvey – Brisbane

What You Can Do Part 1: Carbon Tax is 'Kryptonite' for The Greens

As any Superman fan knows the radioactive rock, Kryptonite, is the one thing that can stop the man of steel.

A Kryptonite equivalent also exists for the anti-heroes of Western Civilisation, or at least the Australian corner of it. This Kryptonite is The Carbon Tax, which became enshrined in law last week, will stop The Greens.

I am confident that come federal election time, this hated tax - and with it, large numbers of its Greens-ALP pushers – will get the chop.

If you need convincing see how people responded to Melbourne man Gerry Flood's recent anti-Carbon Tax campaign at Brighton Beach and also in formerly 'safe' ALP seats in Victoria. 

To anyone disheartened by the passage of this legislation, the question is not whether it will be defeated but just how big the win will be!

This winning margin can be maximised with two simple messages delivered to every electorate via a very low budget two-year campaign focused on the 2013 (or hopefully earlier) federal election.

Australians must first be told that the Carbon Tax nightmare will only end when The Greens are electorally marginalised, as they are in Canada where the Green Party holds just 1 of the 308 seats in the Canadian House of Commons and no Senate seats.

The other key message for voters is to put The Greens as their last preference in both the House of Representatives and Senate elections.

Road signs are a great way to do this. My favourite messages for voters, especially young ones, are (1) To repeal Carbon Tax, vote Greens last! (2) Smile! Voters will repeal Carbon Tax and (3) The Greens love taxing you!

The bigger the 'Repeal Carbon Tax' campaign, the more damage it will do to sitting pro-Carbon Tax politicians and especially to Greens Senators.

Before you start campaigning, put a special bottle away for the strange and wonderful day when everyone sees that The Greens' made their own Kryptonite.

Tempe Harvey – Brisbane

Time For Your Tea Obama

We’ve all seen the pictures of US president Obama’s visit to Australia. Apart from having Julia Gillard desperately clinging to him Obama’s also had a large number of politicians try to be seen with him.

This is a much needed boost to his ego. To be on the receiving end of such hero worship after pushing the American economy to the limit with his negligence has to be a nice change for him.

You could almost hear the love sick innuendo from Julia. Something’s along the lines of “I want one that big!” And from Obama we’d hear “Keep going the way you are and your debt will be bigger than the US’s in no time! And I’m sure you’ll still have the nerve to lecture other countries on their debt management. You mightn’t have the biggest debt but you are the biggest hypocrites!”

And after the political cross pollination is over and done with and the chapped lips of the Australian left are away from Obama’s backside he can look meaningfully at Julia and tell her how much he loves Australia. He’s happy to see American icons such as Coca Cola and McDonalds and most of all he’s happy that there is no Tea Party around.

In America the Tea Party has gained influence in American politics. A lot of Republicans have recognised this and are listening what the Tea Party has to say.

And a lot of what they have had to say has been to the detriment of Obama. They have been pointing out the flaws in his policies and making sure people know what is going on.

But if he thinks there’s no Tea Party here he is in for a very rude awakening. Like its American counterpart the Australian Tea Party is on the scene and Obama is about to find out in no uncertain terms.

Thursday 17 November 2011 10am the Australian Tea Party will be at parliament house Canberra to say hi to Obama and to let him and Gillard know, amongst other things, that their style of governing is seen as undemocratic and is unacceptable.

At 12pm the Tea Party will be followed by an anti-carbon tax really.

The world will see that Gillard and Obama might be popular in their own cliques but the rest of us are fed up with their expensive games topped with obvious outright lies.

America no longer wants Obama and Australia never wanted Gillard.

Julia Still Loves Obama

The pictures we have seen of these two together are enough to make many of us sick. Not because there is anything wrong with Australia’s close ties to the US, it’s simply because these two look more like a love sick couple groping each other than leaders of two G20 countries.

And what’s also sickening is that both these leaders of major economies have been doing their best to trash their countries. Their economic philosophy is borrowing heavily and wasting the money.

And they seem to be doing this as a competition to see who can trash things the most.

Now what could Julia be saying here? How about “This guy’s good, he’s raised his debt by half, he’s made a lot of promises he won’t keep, he plays the game of climate make believe and tries to pretend that there will be many jobs from it all.”

And as far as this economic trashing game goes Obama’s economic vandalism is not bad by their measures. Trouble is he then backed away from the climate change make believe game because he’s too scared to actually bankrupt his economy.

Mind you he doesn’t really need to go all the way with this game. Being America’s first president who isn’t Caucasian is enough to make people remember him. Making life difficult for people is just the icing on the cake.

Julia on the other hand would be completely forgettable if she wasn’t in on this game. When she took over as prime minister from Kevin Rudd the sound of people snoring could generally be heard.

That has changed with the carbon tax. Her promise not to implement a carbon tax only to pass it into law has woken people up. The cheering from the Labor Party when the tax was passed was one of the biggest kicks in the face of Australia by a government. This will also ensure she will be remembered in history.

And she will give billions of dollars that aren’t hers to the UN’s climate scam fund. She will also pay people from shady places billions of dollars for carbon credits so they can give us permission to run our own generators even though we really don’t need it.

The credits are only valuable if you pretend they are but if no one else wants to play no amount of pretending will really make them worth something!

Obama dipped his toe into the climate change make believe game but Julia has gone all the way with it. Julia Gillard is completely trashing the Australian economy so she can play the biggest and most expensive game of make believe of all time.

Government Debt, It's For Your Own Good.

This article on Australia’s Looming Debt Crisis is also at the Tea Party Site.

 

Sooner or Later

The most overwhelming impending Danger To Australia is Debt. Australia’s debt is not so bad some will say, they will justify it by saying it’s not as high as other countries debts. How that justifies a pointless debt is beyond me and at any rate the continued crazy borrowing by Labor means sooner or later we will have a very high national bankrupting debt to deal with. Is a Greece type scenario so hard to stomach that we dismiss the possibility ….even when government policy seems hell bent on achieving it?

Apart from a need to finance reckless spending there is no justification for the debt this country labours under. Countries like the US have massive military commitments to pay, we do not.

The need to pay for social and welfare services is no excuse either. The Liberal government paid off the previous Labor government’s debt and ran such services to the point they could even afford to give supposed upper class welfare and still have a surplus.

The surplus would have been higher without the upper class welfare but at least there was no debt.

The Liberal government did trim the services back a little to help reduce the debt.

Labor hacked at the services and still have a massive growing debt.

Labor are saying Australia can afford to service the debt but that is a spurious measure of any financial success because thanks to this debt over $5 billion dollars a year leaves this country in interest alone.

And then Labor has the nerve to just take more off us. And it looks like they think if you don’t have any more well that’s just your problem. You should have planned for this. Especially if you voted for them!

Part of the justification of the debt is measuring it against our GDP. “It’s only at 30% of our GDP” the debt apologists whine, “The US and UK debts are 70% of their GDP and Japans is 200% of their GDP so it is OK to have ours at 30%.”

The reality is that when combined with state and council debts the total government debt of Australia is much more than 30% of the GDP that the debt apologists squeak about.

On a state level QLD is at $85.5 billion the highest of any state. Premier Anna Bligh originally justified her out of control borrowing by saying they’d be fools not to borrow when times are good. Times turned bad quite quickly and money is being pulled through the nose of Queenslanders to pay for this reckless debt. Anna took a prosperous low debt state and trashed it.

Anna says the debt is like a mortgage debt as opposed to a credit card debt. Actually Anna the debt is like most of Australia’s government debt, it’s unnecessary.

All this debt has in turn increased the level of household debt. More people are relying on credit cards and other borrowings to make ends meet. People whose wages once kept them free of debt are now being dragged under by the Labor government borrow and spend recklessly philosophy.

But remember, ‘it’s only 30% of our GDP.’ Remember that when your powers cut off because you can’t afford to pay or you lose your house because you didn’t allow for paying back reckless government debt when you bought your home.

Here’s reality, Australia has one of the lowest national debts of any country, for now. The debt is rising and rising fast. It won’t take long for it to become as high Japan or the US.

When it comes to all the bogus green schemes the government will finally say “We can’t afford it, we have too much debt” which is what the US has done.

We do not need to have any debt and having debt means we are paying interest.

Money that could have supported our hospitals, infrastructure etc. all gone.

And a debt to GDP comparison is very misleading. Since the money is borrowed by the government it should be compared to the governments ‘income’, the same way people’s individual loans are measured and that is based on income.

After all your ability to service your own debts is not measured on a collective income measurement which is essentially what the GDP is.

The government does not possess an entire years GDP, they tax it. Out of the entire GDP of around $1.23 trillion the amount the federal government ends up with is around $250 billion.

And that doesn’t include the amounts sucked out of the economy by reckless free spending state governments and councils.

On an income basis the government debt is well and truly over 100% of actual income.

The federal government’s debt is well over of one year’s worth of revenue collection. Of that one years’ worth of money they have to pay for welfare, social services, infrastructure and their own exorbitant and undeserved wages etc.

On top of that there’s the $8 billion in foreign aid they give away and the billions promised to the UN from the carbon tax scam.

And when it comes to helping Australia, forget it. You can’t pay your bills? That’s your bad luck.

You lose your home? Again, your Bad luck. And on top of that if there’s a disaster the various governments will hit you with all sorts of levies and taxes.

Their lack of planning must be paid for.

By you.

So if you lose your home and are declared bankrupt because you couldn’t keep up with the government forced cost of living rises just remember Australia’s total government debt is not as high as other countries debts.

Another One Fights The Tax

The fight against the carbon tax continues. So does the example of ‘what can someone do’ when it comes to making a stand.

 What Tempe Harvey has been doing in Brisbane and Sydney to fight against the tax is also being done by Gerry Flood in Victoria.

Around 6 weeks ago Gerry campaigned on the border of 2 “safe” ALP electorates in Melbourne and got a great response.

The safe seats (which aren’t as safe thanks to the carbon tax!) were Simon Crean’s Electorate of Hotham and none other than the Electorate of Isaacs which is the seat held by Mark Dreyfus QC, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change.

Most of the responses Gerry received were in support abolishing the tax. When displayed the sign for 15 minutes banner at Brighton Beach Station in Melbourne he received 16 affirmative honks or thumbs up. The only negative response was from a cyclist who said "It's pollution".

There’s more to living in a democracy than just voting, people need to get involved wherever you can. Even if it means going into a politicians own electorates and demonstrating the people there are against what their local representative is supporting.

While prime minister Gillard says other nations are embracing this pointless idea they are in fact abandoning the idea in droves. Even Obama, the great hope for the century, is abandoning environmental programs.

Not surprising since they are run with too much spin and ideology and have proven to be expensive and ineffective.

Labor claims it will all be part of a global market with carbon trading but other nations are backing away from such an idea.

 

Canadian PM Stephen Harper stood for election opposing such an encumbrance on his country and all the major emitters such as the US, China, India and Japan will not be trading paper carbon credits with Australia in the future.

 

And why would they? If something costs nothing why suddenly pay for it on the claim of helping the environment when in fact it won’t help in the slightest. A carbon tax is at best a short term revenue raiser to temporarily prop up an economy suffering from mismanagement.

 

The trouble is the prop in question eventually becomes a drag on an economy because it pushes up costs in every area. And to add to that Labor is committing billions of dollars we need here to the United Nations making the carbon tax a double edged sword on the Australian economy. And this is on top of the 8 billion dollars spent this year on foreign aid while Australia languishes under a massive debt, our hospital system is collapsing, many flood victims still have no homes and our pensioners are struggling with an unbearable load on their own meagre budgets.

 

The efforts of Tempe and Gerry are showing people you can do something to fight this. While it’s unlikely to cause the tax to be immediately repealed it does serve as a reminder of the contempt that the Green/Labor alliance has treated the electorate and will help keeping people reminded right until the next election.

So remember, if you ever ask yourself how you can help change anything since there’s only one of you, right here is the answer.

Julia Loves Obama

 

RANGA LOVES BAZZA AND BAZZA LOVES RANGA?

It’s true, really it is. And why wouldn’t she? … They have so much in common. Even their differences are pretty similar. Both are involved with some symbolic firsts. Obama is Americas first black president, Julia is Australia’s first female prime minister. For America it was actually meaningful before it became a disaster. For Australia it was disaster from the start.

Obama’s race and Julia’s gender are often mentioned in their defense. A very small amount of the criticism directed at Obama appears to be racially based, most of it however describes what he has done (badly). None of the criticism towards Julia is actually gender based, it also describes what she has done (badly).

So in other words they’ve both proved to be as, (if not more) incompetent as most of their predecessors. You could say it completely proves that race and gender mean nothing in politics although that was already proven at different levels long before these two came along.

Neither know how to show the appropriate respect, while most Americans salute their flag and hold their hand over their heart Obama just stands there with his hands over his crotch….. He did bow to a Saudi prince though.

Julia failed to show the appropriate respect to Queen Elizabeth during the sovereigns visit to Australia. She even tried to out dress her Majesty but failed. Julia’s performance was to demonstrate her republican views.

Queen Elizabeth II is the actual head of state in Australia. The Queen does not actually exercise any powers in Australia and is represented by the governor-general who acts in accordance with the Australian constitution as opposed to accepting direction from the Queen but regardless of this this she is the head of state. This relationship served Australia well in 1975.

A referendum in 1999 confirmed this. Australia wanted to keep the Queen as head of state and Julia is obliged to accept this if she is representing the Australian people. So with that in mind she should keep her republican leanings private while officially greeting the Queen on behalf of Australia.

And where Obama’s lack of respect caused outrage in America Julia’s little rebellion didn’t come across as great or daring action, if anything she looked like a petulant child trying to show off.

One disaster they also have in common is they ran their predecessors debts up to even more disastrous levels. Within 3 years Obama ran the US debt up by nearly 50% and had to go to congress to allow the debt ceiling to be raised so he could borrow more just to keep America running.

Julia just keeps borrowing to the tune of $100 million per day although at one point she ran up a debt of around $76 billion in 6 months.

Obama is not willing to cut any of his social programs to save money. He just wants to tax, tax, tax ….oh and …”tax the rich”.

Julia has cut a lot of social programs and she also wants to tax the rich. In fact she wants to tax everyone and everything.

Both are unpopular with their electorates. Obama was initially popular but when he put in place the usual left wing ideology spin approach to government he became more and more unpopular.Would it be cynical to suggest that the upcoming love-fest between the 2 in Canberra is mainly a stage managed propaganda exercise designed to distract from and replace the media reporting of the realities of their policies for the voters on 2 continents. Substitute the very damaging with the stage managed photo -ops?

Julia was pretty much unwanted from the start. Her mummy and daddy had to come and ask everyone to play nice with her.

Both have taken advantage of the good nature inherent in many people by pushing their climate change scams. Many people do want to believe that our leaders are acting in our best interests and people know the environment does need to be cared for. Some may believe that it’s better to do something, even if it’s useless, to highlight the real problems of the environment.

Obama tried to do something but had to abandon it due to intense opposition from his own side as well as insane cost.

Gillard isof course going ahead regardless of cost or damage to the country.
If anything these two are bad for the environment. Nothing they’ve proposed seems to be effective and is only there to make money.

So the main things they have that are 100% in common is they are both tearing through large sums of money that is not theirs in the name of their symbolic approaches to government and disdain for the people they are supposed to serve.

No prior leaders in Australia or the USA have behaved so badly.
Julia and Obama are definitely two peas in a pod.

And they are well past their use by date.

You can tell this readily by how much on the nose they are.

(This article is also available on the Tea Party site, please feel free to click the like button.)

They Were Protestors? But They're Well Dressed And Make Sense!

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With many protests you will often see a lot of people around, sometimes the protest gets the point across, sometimes it is ignored or referred to in a derogatory manner.
Sometimes the protest is seen as a disgrace and is successfully countered.

Protestors are often casually dressed or scruffily dressed depending on their political orientation. One stereotype of course is the scruffy protestor who chants a lot and probably doesn’t have a job.

There was a different type of protestor in Brisbane recently. Well dressed, attracting attention and making people think.

Tempe Harvey, who is currently protesting against the (almost certain to be legislated for) Carbon Tax was in Brisbane’s CBD on the corner of Adelaide and Edward Street at Queens Plaza.

Usually Tempe campaigns on her own. In early October she protested in Kevin Rudd’s electorate with a sign saying SMILE! NO CARBON TAX.

From her own report: “Motorists and shoppers outside Mr Rudd’s electoral office on Wynnum Road loved my sign. In the period from 1pm to 2pm – 97 people (mostly grinning from ear to ear) honked, waved or called out messages of support.
I waited a few more minutes to make it 100! Over the same period just 9 people shouted obscenities or gave me the “GREEN finger”. After 3 months of road-side campaigning in Brisbane’s other ALP-held seats, I know this tax is very unpopular but I was not prepared for the level of antipathy (100:9) against the tax in Queensland’s safest ALP seat.”

In Brisbane she was joined by Daniel Edmonds, a concerned father and citizen and they caught the attention of the lunchtime crowds.

Many people passing by Queens Plaza on Adelaide Street were in favour of their “repeal Carbon Tax” message. Some were against it but there was none of the rudeness she usually encounters.

Most people who stopped to exchange a few words were concerned that the Carbon Tax would achieve nothing. They were heartened by Tempe’s conviction that Australians would vote overwhelmingly to repeal the Carbon Tax at the 2013 federal election and that the tax would be dismantled.

News of the protest must have reached the Green side because shortly before Tempe and Daniel were scheduled to finish a counter-protestor arrived with a GO GREENS sign. Once again like the Max Brenner protests the Green side was outnumbered.
Daniel tried to ask the counter-protestor some questions but she said she did not want to speak to him.

With the Repeal Carbon Tax/Anti-Greens and the Pro Greens signs side by side the Greens supporter learned first hand that many people are against The Greens and the Carbon Tax.

At one point the pro Greens girl said “This is embarrassing.”

Shortly after Tempe and Daniel left, their Greens friend left as well. And who could blame her?

Of those who voiced an opinion outside Queens Plaza, 7 were for the Carbon Tax and 97 against.

This pair’s approach shows that you don’t need to be part of an unruly unwashed mob to get your message across. Be well dressed, be polite and most of all be right.
So if you ever ask yourself how you can change anything since there’s only one of you you’ll already have the answer.

You don’t need to be a part of a mob. You can do it. You can be heard.

Hear Tempe Harvey speak about her late September Sydney CBD protest http://www.nocarbontax.com.au/2011/09/carbon-tax-the-one-woman-protest/
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