Realistic

By: Joseph27 (Registered ) on 13-10-2007 08:06

First and foremost – what happened to the formatting? 
 
Nick, having a cynical view of politics is not something I can escape; I have been around too long and listened to too many lies to blindly swallow what our ‘leaders’ are telling us. Yes Australia is a lucky country and having lived for much of the past ten years in the developing world I can assure you that I am fully aware of how good it is but I won’t for a minute get caught up in all the rhetoric. Is it that much better than the past? Well that depends on where you are coming from; the economy is doing better but I would attribute a large amount of that to macro reforms taken in the 1980’s / 90’s – Howard has admittedly steered the ship but the course was set by better and more visionary leaders than he.  
 
The reason I made this initial post was because I am tired of election cycle politics without a longer term view of where we are taking this great country. Your sentiments on environment policy are wise but major reform can be achieved when the right environment is created and is more conducive to business interests; tax incentives, university grants, public private developments. Nuclear power can be discussed and that’s fine but it isn’t the long term solution we need, the world is on track to disaster and unless globally we can come up with viable alternatives there is a bleak future waiting for us. Nuclear can be part of our medium term power requirements and is especially viable in places like China and India with massive requirements however in Australia it isn’t as essential.  
 
Travel to the developing world; stopover in China, India and look around – this planet doesn’t have the resources available to meet the expectations being placed on it, so even if we disregard global warming, finite resources is becoming an issue. This isn’t meant to be a Chicken Little call out, this is happening but I am not advocating knee jerk reactions. I don’t espouse the views of the Greens, in fact I find most of what Bob Brown says to be ridiculous, as I mentioned I am generally a conservative voter, I simply lament the lack of longer term focus from John Howard. 
 
During my university days, student unionism was compulsory and I wasn’t active nor was I political, I spent my entire university life working to support myself and had little in common with your reactionary 18 year self proclaimed soci

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