Great post frick and totally agree. The impending economic disaster coming if businesses have to effectively shutdown for 6 months will be truly devastating. Whilst other countires recognised this and prioritised job protection through government intervention (look at NZ, look at what the UK and US are proposing) and compare that to the crap that the Morrison government looked at last week, clearly shows that they either had no idea, or completely misunderstood the issues last week. Its ok, we'll just give $750 to people that don't even work. THE ISSUE ISN'T WITH THOSE THAT DON'T WORK, THE ISSUE IS PROTECTING JOBS FOR THOSE THAT DO WORK NUMNUTS (not fro frick, for Scomo). Not only casual workers, but permanent workers too.
I know what the Morrison Government is trying to do by giving it to people who have a tendency to spend money as soon as it hits their hands, but a lot of that money, like the Rudd sugar hit will likely leave our economy on the first spend.
It's a hard one because you effectively have to tank your economy to pull this under control, and the other tricky thing is that higher infection rates, will make your population more resistant in the long run. I'd imagine going forward is going to be like a warped version of the movie "Speed" where you have to be moving, but you're forced to keep putting your foot on the brake every time it looks like you'll get some momentum.
I'm not sure China will be over this in the long run either once they try to crank things up again, and they hafve an economy sitting on the largest credit bubble in the history of mankind. It's effectively like a ponzi fund, but it's owed to their own citizens.
My greatest critisizm of our economy and it's management is that we've basically cheated to look prosperous over the last 12 years. We've relied on high immigration and the building industry to keep the wheels turning. We should never have signed up to the Paris Agreement which is the greatest virtue signalling exercise in the history of mankind. It does not reduce carbon dioxide, it just moves it to China and to a lesser extent India. Look at it this way. The USA is still by far the largest economy in the world, but their CO2 output is a good third behind China.
The fact is that the Western world used to be filthy. We dumped in our rivers, we had smoggy cities and we logged forests etc etc. That was us over 30 years ago. You just have to look at the background of cities in movies from the 70's and you could see the smog. We no longer dump in our river systems. We have sustainable forest harvesting, we use scrubbers when we use coal.
The Asian region doesn't have an environmental policy at all. 75% of plastics in the ocean originate from China, and the vast majority of the rest from other Asian countries who empty their rubbish bins straight into their rivers. China does dodgy deals with poorer nations to raid their forests of timber. Without the Chinese black market, Tigers and other rare species would likely be far from extinct. Where else do people think that drinking a potion made from ground up dried tiger *smile* will make you more verile?
The Paris Agreement pushes production to this very region of the world, giving them jobs, while we lose manufacturing and wealth. They then use the wealth they are gaining and price our locals out of our own property market. Whose the smart country?? Not Us!!!
This all comes from P!SS weak leadership, and p!ss weak leadership is a symptom of a weak, lazy biast media which tries to create stories out of nothing rather than just reporting the news. How often do you see a headline based on a comment taken completely out of context? They feed the "So Easily Offended" to such a degree that politicians are making decisions as if the whole electorate are unicorn riding hippies.
Just look at our nation.
We sit on massive coal reserves, and if that seems too dirty for you, we also have over 60% of the world's uranium. We have massive amounts of water in the north flowing straight out to sea. The Ord River in WA has 6 times Perth's water use going out it's mouth every single day.
We also have the world's best iron ore.
What we don't have is cheap labour.
However, if a country was prepared to use the wealth we have in natural resources, we could have funded massive national inferstructure projects for water, and started to automate factories, even if this was subsidised by the government. Through automation, yes factory floor jobs are lost, but other jobs are created in robotics and the like. I know, not as many jobs, but there are no jobs when manufacturing heads to China. The further a nation heads to automation, the more competitive you are with Chinese prices. We should have had the cheap energy, and we have the raw iron.
The difficult this is the investment, but we literally have a superannuation industry awash with not billions, but trillions of dollars. Maybe it should havebeen legislated that some of this money finds it's way into Australian investment.
Don't get me started on farming. We could be the food bowl to the Asia Pacific region, but instead we are losing generations of farmers and selling the land - THE BEST LAND to overseas interests. The rest of the best land we are putting under housing.
If i was Morrison, i'd be getting as many South African farmers here as i could. They face genocide per 100,000 at a greater rate than any other social demographic on the planet. But if you did this, the left and the illogical press would go into melt down, as these famers are white and therefore must be privelaged. They are currently getting raped and murdured out of existance. They have farming skills, i'd be bringing them here.
Instead look what's happened with out water rights. I part own a company that runs the RACV in most of country Victoria, so i'm out in country Vic a lot. Believe me, the Murray has had a sh!te load of water. It wasn't long ago it was all over the Yarrawonga golf course, and flooding Bundalong down stream. It shames me that this water management is happening under the Liberal / National leadership.
As things stand, Labor should have strips turn from them proposing we will be carbon neutral by 2050. What they are saying is we wil be out of business by 2050. How exactly can we possibly be carbon neutral, yet does the press question this? Noooope!
Virtue Signaling
Our whole renewable energy scheme is a poxy laughable joke. It produces next to nothing at extraordinary costs. Do people ever question the pollution created to build wind farms and solar panels, or batteries for electric cars for that matter? This involves rare earth minerals, so hidden behind this industry is a lot of environmental devestation. Batteries don't last forever, so what happens after their use by date? Hopefully recycled into house batteries to couple up with solar as that might make a bit of a difference, but it still means you're producing more batteries indefinitely.
Most people don't realise that coal plants cannot be turned up and down. They need to run at baseload power all the time. If we get a really sunny or windy day and wind or solar volume starts to peak, our lines can't even cope with the extra electricity coming in. It doesn't mean we turn down the coal plants. We don't because we can't. They keep running at the same capacity.
Look at the crap being spread about methane from livestock. What do they think happens if you take the livestock out of the paddocks? GRass grows, and insects propogate in larger numbers, and guess what - they have bum holes too. In fact, insects eat more than 90% of the grasses in the African plains. So if you don't have livestock eating vegetation down, you have more cover for insects and their numbers grow expotentially. Termites for example produce more CO2 than every other creature on the planet combined, and that includes man. Don't believe me look it up. THey and insects are a massive biomass.
To give you an idea of ho much crap the green side talks, how often do we hear that the Amazon is the lungs of the planet!
BOLLOCKS
The Amazon is producing more CO2 than it consumes. It does this through vegetation rotting etc. It's an old growth forest. Don't get me wrong, i don';t want to see it cut down, but i'm just pointing out how much rubbish we are fed.
The BOM is currently adjusting temperature readings down from 100 years ago. This is an exercise perfected by the NOAA and NASA in the USA, because raw temperature data from our past is embarrassing for the current green narative. The raw temperature data has 6 of the hottest years on record all in the 1930's. To the credit of the liberal party, they are launching an enquiry into what the BOM is doing, asking for the raw data and for it to go under peer review. As an example a town called Marble Bar in WA had 160 cosecutive days over 100 back in 1923. They've adjusted one of these days down 3 degrees in the middle of this record, and they've done this on the basis of the readings from a "neighbouring" measuring station. That neighbouring station was 700km away.
If you move away from the data that has 'political' interfereance, you start getting a completely different story. GRowing charts in the USA which show what crops will grow where, have moved over 300km south over the last 150 years, but apparently we are warming.
The mind boggles!
I could just go on and on, but i couldn't be stuffed.
