My last blog was a rehashed joke sent to me, which I published, and it caused a bit of a stir, to say the least. In fact I was bailed up about it (as I often am) at the Farmers Markets today. It’s fantastic to get feedback on my blogging, and to make things a little clearer I do need to set a few things straight, namely why I posted a satire on government which turns out to be different once elected to what you voted for.

As a well known member of the Nationals, people often think I am exactly what they perceive the Nationals to be…

I am not… I am my own man… and I have had very little to do with the Nationals for over two years now as my personal needs of community engagement and betterment are being met by my many other projects. By the way, I do not judge people who do not express a need to be active in community engagement and betterment. It’s a tough gig. People will always be keen to pull you down, which is a natural reaction to you standing up.

Luckily for me, most of the community engagement and betterment I have been involved with is not conducted in the policy changing environment and therefore not open to attack and criticism.

Back to the issue.

I am not a Liberal or a Labor supporter, I have a disdain for the elements of these two parties that take rights away from the common Australian.

I identified as a National because they seemed to be the party that had the best alignment to the belief I have that the vulnerable are cared for and the achievers rewarded without a bias to either… as well as an organisation I could give my time to to make a difference for my country.

However, the last blog was published at my disgust at the Labor Party of late.

Labor=Socialist Right???????

Wrong!!!!

Take these two examples:

The destruction of the single desk wheat marketing board. No, not the company trusted to handle the function, that being the corrupt AWB Ltd, but the actual mechanism itself.

The single desk was an export mechanism, which meant that ALL bulk wheat from Australia was sold by ONE marketer. The result is obvious (and for the world it was profound), that is that One Major Seller and many buyers meant better and more stable prices, as opposed to 100,000 wheat farmers selling to many massive world buyers, which would be lower and highly volatile prices.

It was socialism at work for the betterment of Australia’s wheat farmers, who produce the  staple food of our economy and society… bread.

Only weeks ago, Labor and the Liberal party took this away. Now the farmers of Australia have lost their psuedo-union, which enabled some stability on the crazy world food markets. It went without much notice and will go down in history as the saddest day in food production in our country, just as it was the greatest when it came into being a half century ago… you probably didn’t even know it happened. It is, in effect, the same as if the government banned the ACTU… imagine that going unnoticed.

Then you have Kevin Rudd and John Brumby doling out $70 million of YOUR taxes to a foreign multi-national car builder to fund a car that will use more fuel than cars already on the market today,  from a fund that was put aside for ‘research and development’. A car that is already being produced is hardly being researched or developed!!!!

Where is the socialism in that!!! Millions from working families to one of the world’s biggest corporations!!!!

Whilst farmers of this country have the key to our reliance on OIL and its controllers, OPEC. It’s called bio-diesel and is produced easily and cheaply on farms already from common broadacre crops.

So if Kevin was serious about socialism he would not be taking away our Australian single desk protection against multi-nationals or handing out millions to multi-nationals whilst globetrotting in Whale Yum Cha Central. He would be in Australia with his own people, using what we ALREADY have to protect us from these thugs in pinstripe suits.