John Linton ......remains of FY 2011 - just four days of yet another financial year has gone 'almost before you know it'. We will spend the next four days 'tidying up' our business plan for next year and doing the last of the 'documentation' in preparation for the first day of the coming new financial year this Friday. Where do the years go? I had a very 'quiet' weekend doing virtually nothing except for a delightful dinner with our long term family solicitor and his wife at the Australian Club. After we consumed two of his very old, and immaculately stored reds (with a bottle of white from the club list to go with the entrees) with some excellent food it didn't seem sensible to attempt any further gastronomic comparisons on Saturday and Sunday. You seldom get the chance to drink wines that old because if they were on some restaurant's list you would not pay the price likely to be charged and they would almost have certainly been damaged along the way as they passed through various 'owner's' hands.
So I spent some time looking at the published documentation on the 'NBN2' to date while I listened to Bob Thodey on "Business Today"
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Telstra-confident-of-35yr-NBN-contract-J74EE?OpenDocument&src=is
(did you see his inability to hide his smile when asked about Telstra's agreement to not compete with the 'NBN2' with LTE?) giving his version of what the 'deal' with the government meant, chatted with Annette, and watched some tennis and AFL while doing other things that seemed more rather than less useful ways of using the available time. When you decide to do something like that, attempt to look at a subject that is as politically motivated and driven by electorate manipulation you find that facts, let alone figures, are almost non-existent. Does anyone else notice this do you think? I would have thought that the Coalition's policy analysts, should they actually have any, would have been able to destroy Ms Faustus and publicly humiliate Stupid Stephen long before now on what is on the public record just by contrasting the public record claims and documentation quarter by quarter since 1/1/07 with the subsequent 'lack of progress' and the ever changing 'figures' such they are.
I have looked at all the public record information in my possession and I can say with a fair degree of certainty that the chances of there ever being an 'NBN2' as declaimed by the current illegitimate government are practically non-existent. This assessment is only based on one unknown. The unknown is that the coalition need to win the 2113 federal election which can't be predicted by anyone at this time. If a Labor Government is re-elected in 2013 then it is impossible to know whether there will be an 'NBN2' as set out by the current lunatics passing for an illegitimate government of Australia; but the assumption would be that they would be forced to continue to spend your and my money on pretending there is some point in continuing to pretend there will be one. So, if there is a change of government between now and late 2013 there will be no NBN - not for political pints scoring reasons but because:
a) Not enough people can be forced to use it
b) It cannot be afforded by the Australian taxpayers
c) In 2013 less than 10% of Australian residents will have access to an 'NBN2' and none of the nastier 'compensation' clauses in the contract would be triggered....
.......therefore cancelling or severely restricting the scope of the 'NBN2' project would be far cheaper than continuing with it.
The published statements and 'figures' show no other possible conclusion - despite all the current hype, or even "hyperbowl", being so carelessly used by the unthinking, the scheming and the just plain lying and/or ignorant. No amount of tax payer money can make an incorrect and just plain stupid government decision right - F35 anyone? F111? Adelaide built submarines? Aboriginal intervention? Participation in the Boer War? Participation in WW1,WW2, the Korean War, Vietnam, Afghan adventurism, the school revolution, home insulation scheme........I guess you get the point - bad ideas are simply bad ideas - your/my money can never make a bad idea a good idea.
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