barnett threat to browse lease, page-2

Talk about a free lunch! 1.5 billion for doing nothing! Starting to get a tad worried about ntt given even if accepted might find we wake up one day to find the lot nationalized by a tribe or worse gated up by the greenies. It's not like the money we invested was the result of a bloody government grant or something - instead was hard savings with the rest that went on taxes paying the way for what I presume are a few on welfare somewhere. It's not that I don't want to so my bit for social justice but give me a break - the government taxes my income to fund some pre-election propaganda push, the rest that is saved is either taxed on interest, or in the case of small caps, decimated with the sucker punch that if pour more in can use the tax credits, and just when you think there might be some green to work out some losses, you get this carry on in Western Australia to really shaft us. No wonder crime is going through the roof when after working your butts off, you see all your savings go down the drain. And them you read the news about someone writing overpaid welfare by a million or so and having spent it now faces a six year jail term. But all those pricks out there who made millions from the gfc and who continued to profit don't even get a slap on the wrist? Ad the only people to look up to are the politicians who can answer a question with a 'yes definitely' and then a day later come out and say they were misinterpreted? Bugger me, if any of us did that we'd be accused of lying and be out of a job at the least. Little wonder the country is going to buggery and the more this carries on, the less productive the county gets, he higher the tax burden and the less likely anyone left can be buggered putting in any extra just to see it siphoned away.