Don't Build Your House On The Beat, Baby
So, the budget has come and gone and the bush has been forgotten. Again. Sure, there was a fair-sized handout for rural healthcare, but that was about it. No education funding targetted at the bush, no infrastructure spending to speak of, nothing.
As far as I am concerned this is only right and fair. If you want an urban-style standard of living then live in an urban-style environment. This is The Bush. The Bush is big. Its population is small. The amenities are not going to be up to city standards. Ever. No matter what this or any future government does it will never be viable to spend that much money on so few people. People who live here know this. People who live here would rather watch Popstars Live than admit this. This is because of the fact that if you want $1.00 from this government (or any previous government) you must make them believe that you need $100.00. And that they will lose votes if you don't get it.
Just keep us reasonably up to date and that will do me. Its the short term residents that have trouble coping without their ADSL connections, home-delivery Thai food or even a branch of Rotten Ronnie's Simulated Food Company.
Our local pub does Pizzas, extremely good pizzas without a trace of riccotta or oven-roasted eggplant in sight. Not long ago I was having a couple of quiet beers (with the prospect of some loud ones later on) when a young blonde woman from Toowoomba noticed the pizza menu. "Ooh... can you get pizza way out here?" she said.
"Yes," I said, "But you have to ring up the day before, it's a long way to deliver it."
"That's just stupid," she said, "How do you know how hungry you'll be?" And she was serious.
At the opposite end of the spectrum how annoying are those pricks who snap up terrace houses or apartments in 'colourful' inner-city suburbs and then organise campaigns to eradicate the area of everything that makes the area unique in the first place. Stop those rowdy types from going to the pub after 10p.m., move the homeless on, clean up prostitution (move it out of sight)etc., etc. All so that they can pay $8.00 for a goats milk latte and the privilege of sitting on a milk crate out the front, ogling Z3 BMW's and Aprilia RSVR's while lapping up the local ambience.
It's due to these idiots that my wages no longer cover the mortgage payments on a three bedroom house within 10k's of the Sydney GPO. That's before tax. The good news is it can't last; eventually these lifestyle program watching idiots must run out of other lifestyle program watching idiots to sell their tastefully renovated with Victorian highlights to and the arse is going to fall out of the market, sending all of these budding property moguls to the wall.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha(deep breath)hahahahahahahahahahaha. Phew, that's better.
As far as I am concerned this is only right and fair. If you want an urban-style standard of living then live in an urban-style environment. This is The Bush. The Bush is big. Its population is small. The amenities are not going to be up to city standards. Ever. No matter what this or any future government does it will never be viable to spend that much money on so few people. People who live here know this. People who live here would rather watch Popstars Live than admit this. This is because of the fact that if you want $1.00 from this government (or any previous government) you must make them believe that you need $100.00. And that they will lose votes if you don't get it.
Just keep us reasonably up to date and that will do me. Its the short term residents that have trouble coping without their ADSL connections, home-delivery Thai food or even a branch of Rotten Ronnie's Simulated Food Company.
Our local pub does Pizzas, extremely good pizzas without a trace of riccotta or oven-roasted eggplant in sight. Not long ago I was having a couple of quiet beers (with the prospect of some loud ones later on) when a young blonde woman from Toowoomba noticed the pizza menu. "Ooh... can you get pizza way out here?" she said.
"Yes," I said, "But you have to ring up the day before, it's a long way to deliver it."
"That's just stupid," she said, "How do you know how hungry you'll be?" And she was serious.
At the opposite end of the spectrum how annoying are those pricks who snap up terrace houses or apartments in 'colourful' inner-city suburbs and then organise campaigns to eradicate the area of everything that makes the area unique in the first place. Stop those rowdy types from going to the pub after 10p.m., move the homeless on, clean up prostitution (move it out of sight)etc., etc. All so that they can pay $8.00 for a goats milk latte and the privilege of sitting on a milk crate out the front, ogling Z3 BMW's and Aprilia RSVR's while lapping up the local ambience.
It's due to these idiots that my wages no longer cover the mortgage payments on a three bedroom house within 10k's of the Sydney GPO. That's before tax. The good news is it can't last; eventually these lifestyle program watching idiots must run out of other lifestyle program watching idiots to sell their tastefully renovated with Victorian highlights to and the arse is going to fall out of the market, sending all of these budding property moguls to the wall.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha(deep breath)hahahahahahahahahahaha. Phew, that's better.
posted by Dirk at 3:58 pm
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