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22/12/19

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Originally posted by debono: ↑

Difficult to have vision when vision doesn't get the votes today and elections are won on 'today' topics and policies not long term visions. China anyone?
The short term greed of capitalism leads to wars and re birth. However given the choice we will always choose short term wealth over socialism/communism . The ones that don't are generally those incapable of the creation of said wealth. Not all but most.
If we had any real vision we would be a self sufficient country selling only our excesses.
Why don't we? We form alliances for physical protection based upon trade. That's ok however then greed said we should open our borders and trading to our potential enemies and now they control us. We have become dependent on China who will one day own this country unless war/s destroy it first.
That's a tad gloomy for Xmas isn't it but non the less a real risk.

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@debono; you don't need much vision to come up with suggestions made in the article referenced below - just commonsense and compassion:

"Bushfire crisis demands a rethink on defence's role in national disasters"
"... We need to start planning for large-scale disasters over wide geographical scales and duration producing catastrophic disruptions to critical infrastructure, food production and transport networks. The management of low-likelihood, high-consequence events isn't well rehearsed compared with expected or familiar types of disruption. …"
disallowed/national/bushfire-crisis-demands-a-rethink-on-defence-s-role-in-national-disasters-20191221-p53m41.html
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