Re: Aus Federal Politics thread

[skully]

I for one am heartily sick of having to subsidise the billy bogan state through the grants commission (let the alone the thickos in the NT)...I say plonk all the white billy bogan planks in the god forsaken wide bay burnett area with spillover to Ippy, take over the mines and feed the bogans xxxx and relax gun control - just for that area

Amen, h.

[Mick Sawyer]

I for one am heartily sick of having to subsidise the billy bogan state through the grants commission (let the alone the thickos in the NT)...I say plonk all the white billy bogan planks in the god forsaken wide bay burnett area with spillover to Ippy, take over the mines and feed the bogans xxxx and relax gun control - just for that area

snigger. Lucid today then h?

[Bradman]

I for one am heartily sick of having to subsidise the billy bogan state through the grants commission (let the alone the thickos in the NT)...I say plonk all the white billy bogan planks in the god forsaken wide bay burnett area with spillover to Ippy, take over the mines and feed the bogans xxxx and relax gun control - just for that area

snigger. Lucid today then h?

I've been arguing for years about drawing a line from somewhere north of Brisbane down to somewhere just west of Melbourne and letting you all get by by yourselves. So your idea has merit in reverse. If you're all going to be ungrateful non-productive bludgers and welfare cases I say we hold a referendum to force this area out of the Commonwealth and cal it the West Island.

[Big Dog]

just farkin ban the sh!t

give everyone 5 years to quit

then ...total ban

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saw some spruiker for BAT claim loudly that prohibition wouldnt work ...which means it probably would


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of course no politician ...not even Julia ...has big enough balls to try and get this legislation through

Wouldn't that give the deniers & the vested interests that control them something something fresh to carry on with for a while. I note that the Monk is getting warmed up with his doubts about plain packaging.

Deniers?... Last time i looked, tobacco was still legal & given the massive taxes those whose choose to smoke have to pay, i presume that gives them some rights....unless, as Mick seems to think, we have already slipped into an Orwellian 1984 type society.
Actually, come to think of it, we probably have. The Government or its bureaucratic minions are already telling us what to eat,drink,smoke,gamble, how to bring up our kids, how to educate them, how to discipline them (or not), how long we have to work, when we can access our own super funds.....it just goes on & on doesn't it.
Fark this nanny state mentality. Its time people started taking responsibility for their own lives again.

[Bradman]

Yeah well you can't deny prohibition works well, doesn't lead to increased social problems, doesn't cause a spike in crime or corruption and certainly doesn't lead to individuals having a chance to make a zillion tax free dollars.

[JGK]

Actually, come to think of it, we probably have. The Government or its bureaucratic minions are already telling us what to eat,drink,smoke,gamble, how to bring up our kids, how to educate them, how to discipline them (or not), how long we have to work, when we can access our own super funds.....it just goes on & on doesn't it.
Fark this nanny state mentality. Its time people started taking responsibility for their own lives again.

That's all fine so long as those people don't expect the state to pay for their expensive health care or give them welfare when they get emphysema, diabetes, lose their jobs because of gambling or alcohol addictions etc.


As for plain packaging - it's not designed for people to stop smoking, it's designed for people not to start smoking.

[Mick Sawyer]

it's designed for people not to start smoking.

From the smoke & fire, a little pearl.

[Mick Sawyer]

Deniers?...

BD, I was referring to those that choose to deny/distort genuine scientific evidence.

i presume that gives them some rights

They have rights, no question.

[Big Dog]

That's all fine so long as those people don't expect the state to pay for their expensive health care or give them welfare when they get emphysema, diabetes, lose their jobs because of gambling or alcohol addictions etc.

Thats not very 'Socialist' of you Mick.

[skully]

[lardbucket]

just put tobacco on the PBS and allow free access to it for all registered tobacco addicts

[horace]

just put tobacco on the PBS and allow free access to it for all registered tobacco addicts

sagest post ever

[Mick Sawyer]

That's all fine so long as those people don't expect the state to pay for their expensive health care or give them welfare when they get emphysema, diabetes, lose their jobs because of gambling or alcohol addictions etc.

Thats not very 'Socialist' of you Mick.

It isn't, in fact the thought never crossed my mind.

[embee]

You lefty pinkos all look alike to BD

[lardbucket]

WTAAS

[embee]

Wozzie govt has put up mining royalties ...which will pull $2 Billion from the MRRT

Swan threatening to reduce the Wozzie Commonwealth grants by the same amount

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