Originally posted by Sailor FNQ:
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Since it's "in vogue" at the moment - here it is..should be giving to the aboriginals!! We apologise for giving you free doctors and free medical care and medications, which allows you to survive and multiply so that you can demand apologies. We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the English language and thus we opened up to you the entire European civilisation, thought and enterprise. We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes for you, which you have vandalised and destroyed. We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped prevent you from slaughtering one another and using the unfortunate for food purposes. We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which today feed you people, where before, you had the benefits of living off the land and starving during droughts. We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric to replace that animal skins you used before. We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between cities and building cars so that you no longer have to walk over harsh terrain. We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay the installments. We apologise for giving you free vehicles, petrol, boats, firearms, fishing gear and other non traditional methods that you now use to carry out your traditional ways of hunting. We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere, whenever. We apologise for giving each and every member of your family $100.00 and free travel to attend an aboriginal funeral. We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white people have to pay. We apologise for giving you interest free loans. We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including gold and diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their value. We apologise for developing Ayers rock and Kakadu, and then handing them over to you so that you get all the money. We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards daughters wedding ($8,000.00 each daughter) We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your people, which is $48,000.00 per aboriginal man, woman and child. We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your welfare, medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2 billion each year. We apologise for having to approach your taxpayer funded aboriginal affairs department to verify the above figures. For the trouble you will have identifying the uncle toms in your own community who are getting richer and leaving some of you living in squalor and poverty. We do apologise. We really do. We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins. We are only too happy to take back all the above and return you to the paradise of the outback, whenever you are ready.
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Excellent Sailor, however let me add a few: Thank you for your contribution to sophisticated musical compositions,
Thank you for your contribution to literary masterpieces,
Thank you for engineering breakthroughs which have enhanced the lives of peoples in the world,
Thank you for passing on your achievements in economical housing construction methods, bridge building, marine R & D, transportation of people and goods, aeronautics,
Thank you for your contribution to design and manufacture of yarn, weaving, fabrics, reusable clothing, shoes,
Thank you for passing on you knowledge of high-yield farming practices, agriculture and sophisticated cooking methods,
Thank you for your contributions to science, medicine, education, astrology, power generation and storage,
in fact , if it wasn't for your contributions, the whole world may have remained living in stone-age circumstances for another 50,000 years.
