Can't please the Greens.

One of the realities that will define this period of history will be the way the Greens survive by redefining themselves- as the new reactionaries . The truth doesn't matter -just the way you redefine yourself .Clean and green and clever as ever ,  but more in theory than reality .Close everything down and hope the park will attract visitors, if not land industries.
They claim the high moral ground but don't hit the ground . They claim they are about action but their policy is inaction ( close it down and lock it up) .( apart from more taxes )
The greens now try to claim the high ground  on qanda tonight on logging -One of the realities that will define this period of history will be the way the Greens closed down the logging industry without really knowing what its doing - hence the passe response to their overblown destruction of industries they don't understand.
Milne will need to find some ground to stand on because noone in the audience asked her a seriuos question. Hearing her talk about logs versus conservation  is too much-- as if it comes down to one or the other   Cundle may support the inherent corruption fears of the left like some predictable old record but its just overblown fear(his adjectives were completely unjustified)  .The greens aren't serious about anything , live off irrational fears and using the latest words  ,and people are seeing it .

Hockey does some hacking on qanda

20000 more pS in Canberra since Labor started
If its profitable tax it and if its making lots tax it most ,,,,,,,,,if its not making anything subsidize it

What will the MPCCC committee come up with ?

Who knows - but whatever it does come up with ; It will be out of this world and bring the house down ( you heard it first on blogger on June 21st 2011) .
I won't here dignify the shatteringly unstable nature of MPCCC 's recommendations when they come out in week or so --with a reason ( Ed Burke would know ) - GreenLabor love to move where angels fear to tread . Easiest way to go there is to not know what you are doing.

Easy answers are for simple people

Our PM Julia Gillard bans live exports of cattle to Indonesia because of a TV program (ABCTV)  showing cruelty by some purchasers of those cattle .   Asylum seekers  will be sent to ..............who knows where ?
The only modus operandi for Greenlabor seems to be to ban things. They have become the  new prohibition group .
Too bad if such simple effective action  stops major economic activity or is so big a hammer it drives innocent people broke . Labor now does what its lobbyists in the green movement want it to leaving reality politics to someone else . Ag supply is a fragile economic supply line,  but greens don't care . Care used to mean consideration for diversity - big hammers don't care so  Labor's credibility is on the line.

Labor leaders clearly get too many of their ideas from the Greens,  but why do they slavishly follow the greens down the dead brick road . Sure its simple and its appeal is obvious.

Talking crap to win votes

No wonder Lindsay Tanner dropped out - he's got some integrity. Some polys will do anything to stay in power ( maybe even get married ? ). Burke  will talk himself silly about population pressures like Wong did - by placing the good name of science and sustainability next to their own simple watery prejudices and fears ( aligning themselves with the fear driven) . No better than the red necks who would chase people out of the country because of their colour;  at least some people are open about their focus .
 Bob Carr and Kelvin Thompson too,  show where all this hot air on environment comes from ( the cities ) -and how brilliant  it is ; these 2 would know about carrying capacity ( their fear is a danger to their objectivity )  - the city has always been the parasite,  so whose in denial here ? They live in the heat and messed with it for too long to know why Julia is in big trouble now with the nonscience and projection over environment. The Carrs and the Thompsons   have refused to support the proper role of planning  ( not population thats the problem its their lack of planning!)  The NSW environmenet court and Vic Labor water worriers--just big black holes for the unwary - supported by bureaus big enough to rebuild the genuine planned economy of every regional centre in Australia - should they ever get serious about what they are saying .  Bob Brown can't see his way out of it either,  cause he's in the midst of it .      Fearmongers incorporated

A Carbon Price - finally a really simple idea for the........

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The idea is so simple that its appeal to politicians is quite understandable 

Gillard has got everyone to agree to an idea - just got to work out whether it works or not .
Nothing wrong with thinking about a tax to influence the use and abuse of diminishing resources .


But there is something seriously wrong with a group of politicians thinking they can do the impossible and change the world with a great big tax
-especially a group of complete marginals ; a track record with water that just doesn't wash  .A love of simplicity instead of a commitment to complexity.
Take a good look at this bunch ; behind Bob Brown is Tony Windsor and beside him is Christine Milne . Independents are over represented ; Rob Oakshott standing behind government leaders who couldn't  be trusted with managing insulation to homes,  let alone our economy.. Rob and Tony are happy to back more committees and more legislation clearly jeopardizing their right to speak for the people. Apparently the latest idea is so simple and "locked in" that even politicians can't fiddle with it .   More like "so simple they all fell for it"
The mood was one of unity - they agreed with us that" it would good to do something about it" which it would " robin hood "  .
But their confidence needs a reality check - who are they and what do they know.  Do the people trust them and should they trust themselves? We don't .I as a competent risk management earth scientist would not even go near them and their short pants advisory crew

You would think the Independents in particular would have researched why the leading exponents of more resources  taxes were tossed out of Victoria -----because their taxes ( and their taxes solve everything attitud e) distort the market in favor of rich people and make the average citizen pay in a very big way for benefits that are highly contentious .

Basket case Coalitions

The day after Victorian Elections; November 28th 2010
Labor is in trouble across the board for signing into coalitions of incompetence . Underneath smart meters , Myki , Desal, Energy policy turnovers and the many big moves of Vic labor are false presumptions of power and direction aided and abetted by incompetence in their ranks . The Greens have some great ideas , but hell breaks lose when good intentions only are what justifies your actions.( no discussion yet of Labor's outrageous idea of picking winners in technology )  The Children should never be left in Charge.

Vic Labor's failure to hold office will set this desperate coalition of the incompetent with the very incompetent on a self destruct course .
Genuine conservationists now  need to insist the major parties get on with the job of making investments in conservation competent ,consistent and reliable .