John Linton
...... still ends up with the victim being dead.
Looking at the various aspects of business in Australia, and particularly those relating to the telecommunications business, produces a sense of unreality that hasn't been evident to me for as long as I can remember. I was too young back in brief days of the Whitlam government to be affected by the destruction of business that mindless socialism can wreak together with its destruction of a country's economy. The Hawke/Keating period was less damaging because it was ameliorated by an equal amount of totally non-socialist economic reforms that were identical to those that would have been pursued by a non-socialist government. However the sheer stupidities of the Rudd egoticities and now the promulgations of the Green dominated illegitimate Ms Faustus lead non government are becoming quite concerning.
Personally I couldn't care less about "the mining tax" (sounds sensible but will almost certainly be ballsed up in the execution) nor do I have an opinion one way or another on "global warming initiatives" (Nothing Australia does will make the slightest difference to whatever is currently happening). I assume all governments make major errors which are quickly forgotten about when the real facts intrude upon fanciful posturing (the education revolution, pink batts for every Australian home scheme, grocery watch, petrol watch - the list is endless) and in any case the waste of money such posturings cost pale into insignificance compared to ludicrous military expenditures (12 submarines, multi-billion dollar aircraft spring to mind) and non-action on all the other key things Australian governments of any political persuasion indulge in (water for an arid continent, an education system that might educate someone). But the two most recent things that have 'surfaced' are indications of how this particular bunch of wankers is proposing to make business ever more difficult.
If you haven't read about the proposed "bullying in the workplace" legislation then I won't bore you with the details because I would assume that they would produce the same level of sheer incredulity in you as they did in me. I had no idea that anyone who was not locked up in a padded cell could have dreamed up that an employer could be deemed responsible for the individual acts of their employees to the extent of facing huge fines or jail time if some employee claimed that they were being bullied in an incredible range of ways by either other employees or by the employer who could be deemed as bullying by doing something like asking an employee to carry out some task that was "inappropriate to their educational or commercial qualifications". Have these people never gone to primary school? Even I can't believe that the current bunch of twinkies in Canberra can consider inflicting this type of insanity on Australian employers:
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/management/experts-gang-up-on-underdeveloped-oversensitive-bullying-code-20111204-1odfc.html
....socialism gone totally insane.
Then there was Whine Swan's dummy spit on introducing a currency exchange tax on "overseas payments" two days ago whereby he proposes to introduce a new tax on all foreign currency purchase transactions. While obviously a 'winged' "policy" that he hasn't given more than a billionth of a second thought to (other than to see himself as the total tosser that he is). What a good idea to tax Australian business that buys capital goods that are essential to run their Australian businesses from overseas manufacturers who require payment in $US or Euros or Yen etc. Is he going to tax the banks on their vast 'overseas' borrowings paid in $US? Is he going to tax airline ticket payments on 'foreign' airlines? How is taxing foreign currency transactions in Australian's interests?....except to a government that has pissed away tax receipts on social adventurism and now needs "to return the budget to surplus". Clearly a 'federal treasurer' who lacks the fiscal knowledge and discipline to manage the office 'tea money tin'.
I could go on but I fear for my physical health which after so many years of working long hours is no longer likely to support making a living.
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