Back to the future

By: Lorraine (Registered ) on 14-10-2007 04:29

I tend to agree with much of what Joseph27 has to say. It worries me that there has been a lack of vision or long term planning for this country over the past 11 years. Budgets in surplus are not always the be all and end all if we allow infrastructure to deteriorate or be non-existent, if we allow funding for education, research and development to be reduced in real terms, if we allow our health systems to become run down and ineffective, if we allow the environment to be destroyed, if we lose compassion for those less fortunate in our society etc.  
The government has shown itself to be completely arrogant in spending such huge amounts of tax payers money on advertising campaigns when we have such abject poverty amongst our aborignal communities, numbers of homeless on our streets, pensioners without dental care, sparse facilites for respite for carers of the mentally ill let alone clinical care for sufferers, lack of specialised services for children with autism and other forms of learning difficulties in rural areas, to name a few. However, if anyone dares to speak up they are labelled as "pathetic" by the prime minister. This is the "leader" of our democracy. I thought in healthy democracies the people were encouraged to speak out on any issue that effects them.  
I hope Kevin Rudd can step up and articulate a better vision for this country that is far more inclusive, that encourages our young to be involved in helping us solve some of the huge problems facing the country and the planet and helps us regain our place on the world stage as independent thinkers.

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