K, you are on the right right tram but maybe jumped off in frustration before terminal conclusion. This is a place that has glittering prizes provided one can eschew and forgo the mind lolly comfort stations. Don't we grumble about government planners but in the end acquiesce and succumb to the keepers of Crown Privilege? Then there's the discomfort to perceive the vast money flows guided not by Adam Smith's invisible hand of free enterprise but by political influence.
Australians rail against Authority but cry "there should be a law against that". We foolishly accepted that we were recipients of a government gifted "privilege" to fly. We accepted Aviation Mediclals and huge piles of regulations and everyone has an opinion about how everyone else should technique their job.
We set up Canberra, our biggest mistake. A model capital without that messy free enterprise stuff. A souless city of stratified socialist control, near 400,000 that must extol the necessity of planning and the virtue of deleting risk from life. Guess who pays the bill? Where a $600,000pa public servant can walk out of his five year contract after less than two years with no explanation to taxpayer or industry. He was head of his excruciatingly named Tiger Team, the Exemption inventors for the $300 million dollar new and unworkable aviation rules.
Melbourne said to be the World's most liveable city, how smug can you be? Yes fine if you already own a piece of it and accept the traffic jams and grotty bits of planner frozen wastelands. You have your little piece of dirt, your number one asset; value artificially pushed up by "planning", read government control, to stratospheric levels thus bloating banks with mountains of mortgage moneys and leaving the not so well off and new comers out in the cold with little to do but take the dole, make trouble and wonder how previous waves of migrants did so well (ie. Before Planning). To you younger people yes BP was a time. In the 50s, 60s you could make an airstrip where you wanted. I bought seaside building blocks for $400 each realising, correctly, that the artificial land zoning would create a price hiking shortage. There was practically no unemployment. You could by a house in Brighton for $16,000. Before Planning, early 70s, really started to bite we made it to USD$1.50 for one of ours. Imagine shopping in the US at that rate. We've become so stupid that we think, like Glenn Stevens, that it's a good thing our dollar is devalued. Everything in Australia is worth less to the world than it was before, even your cups and saucers. How's that for clever country?
We have to get past the ifs and buts, freedom works, great prosperity, better environment (EPA laws are good) is within reach if we go for property rights and cause government to relinquish its mindset of micro management by institutionalized bureaucracy. We can't afford the present trajectory, something has to give, it can go well if we try, otherwise we continue to muddle along downhill.
'K' - Edit - Choc Frog Sandy.
Australians rail against Authority but cry "there should be a law against that". We foolishly accepted that we were recipients of a government gifted "privilege" to fly. We accepted Aviation Mediclals and huge piles of regulations and everyone has an opinion about how everyone else should technique their job.
We set up Canberra, our biggest mistake. A model capital without that messy free enterprise stuff. A souless city of stratified socialist control, near 400,000 that must extol the necessity of planning and the virtue of deleting risk from life. Guess who pays the bill? Where a $600,000pa public servant can walk out of his five year contract after less than two years with no explanation to taxpayer or industry. He was head of his excruciatingly named Tiger Team, the Exemption inventors for the $300 million dollar new and unworkable aviation rules.
Melbourne said to be the World's most liveable city, how smug can you be? Yes fine if you already own a piece of it and accept the traffic jams and grotty bits of planner frozen wastelands. You have your little piece of dirt, your number one asset; value artificially pushed up by "planning", read government control, to stratospheric levels thus bloating banks with mountains of mortgage moneys and leaving the not so well off and new comers out in the cold with little to do but take the dole, make trouble and wonder how previous waves of migrants did so well (ie. Before Planning). To you younger people yes BP was a time. In the 50s, 60s you could make an airstrip where you wanted. I bought seaside building blocks for $400 each realising, correctly, that the artificial land zoning would create a price hiking shortage. There was practically no unemployment. You could by a house in Brighton for $16,000. Before Planning, early 70s, really started to bite we made it to USD$1.50 for one of ours. Imagine shopping in the US at that rate. We've become so stupid that we think, like Glenn Stevens, that it's a good thing our dollar is devalued. Everything in Australia is worth less to the world than it was before, even your cups and saucers. How's that for clever country?
We have to get past the ifs and buts, freedom works, great prosperity, better environment (EPA laws are good) is within reach if we go for property rights and cause government to relinquish its mindset of micro management by institutionalized bureaucracy. We can't afford the present trajectory, something has to give, it can go well if we try, otherwise we continue to muddle along downhill.
'K' - Edit - Choc Frog Sandy.