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15-04-2010, 11:09am
(This post was last modified: 15-04-2010, 11:14am by Throwdown!.)
Ray:
You're winding us up. Surely!
Are you saying NORTH KOREAN, IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, SAUDI ARABIAN, CHINA, VENEZUELA and CUBA are better countries than Australia? Name one you'd consider living in above Australia, even with our imperfections.
You can't take just a piece of their regime, so there's no point saying they do immigration better but nothing else. Their border policy is born out of their regime, and no Australian wants to live in an Australia that can be compared to those countries.
However, if you do - get political and do something about it. No point sitting back and blaming the world's poor for threatening our way of life (although they're the very reason we have our way of life) - that inaction makes you a part of the problem.
Our system is a major part of what makes us better than those countries. So if the rest of us are letting the side down, and there really is a silent majority out there, then the task to save Australia from itself becomes feasible. We live the way we do now because the real 'majority' can be bothered to ACT!
Most of us are happy enough tweeking with the way things are, so if the 'silent majority' don't like the way things are going they only have themselves to blame. Lobbying politicians and getting things moving isn't the sole right of wishy washy liberals.
We all need to weight it up;
- get rid of our international obligations towards refugees seeking asylum and our World standing in the process, (yes, we do have a World standing despite losing our only recognised Statesman in the last election), or
- enjoy our position and the accompanying way of life that comes with fulfilling our promises.
OUR PROMISES! No one makes us sign these things, we voted in people who decided it was a good idea and then continued to vote in some others who agree with them).
You're winding us up. Surely!
Are you saying NORTH KOREAN, IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, SAUDI ARABIAN, CHINA, VENEZUELA and CUBA are better countries than Australia? Name one you'd consider living in above Australia, even with our imperfections.
You can't take just a piece of their regime, so there's no point saying they do immigration better but nothing else. Their border policy is born out of their regime, and no Australian wants to live in an Australia that can be compared to those countries.
However, if you do - get political and do something about it. No point sitting back and blaming the world's poor for threatening our way of life (although they're the very reason we have our way of life) - that inaction makes you a part of the problem.
Our system is a major part of what makes us better than those countries. So if the rest of us are letting the side down, and there really is a silent majority out there, then the task to save Australia from itself becomes feasible. We live the way we do now because the real 'majority' can be bothered to ACT!
Most of us are happy enough tweeking with the way things are, so if the 'silent majority' don't like the way things are going they only have themselves to blame. Lobbying politicians and getting things moving isn't the sole right of wishy washy liberals.
We all need to weight it up;
- get rid of our international obligations towards refugees seeking asylum and our World standing in the process, (yes, we do have a World standing despite losing our only recognised Statesman in the last election), or
- enjoy our position and the accompanying way of life that comes with fulfilling our promises.
OUR PROMISES! No one makes us sign these things, we voted in people who decided it was a good idea and then continued to vote in some others who agree with them).
Carpe Diem!