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The 2010 election is looming upon us... so who the bloody hell are ya gonna vote for?
So, I thought it would be interesting to gauge a bit of a vote on farkin, using their high tech bar charting system to capture the output data (excuse the power data freak within) from your votes to get a sample of who could potentially be our next PM. Please make your vote and feel free to provide an explanation too. What I don't want to see is people abusing one another and making personal attacks, thats not what its about... Its about beating up our leaders/opposition etc etc, nit picking at them, the good the bad and then making a vote and explaining why...Please, no posts like "I'm too young" or "Politics is for dickheads". Nobody cares (and in fact don't even bother opening this thread - cos you're most likely a dead beat, ie. obviously not if you're too young).
So here I go...
Personally, being only a 2nd time voter (a coming of age thing) and after hearing the response of Tony Abbotts 'Right of Reply' on tonights ABC broadcast, I am definately leaning towards an Abbott led Coalition government.
I think anyone who can't see past all the incumbent government's failures is really just a diehard labour voter and following a 'labour born and bred' belief. I beleive that Kevin Rudd's typical demagoguery will be revealed as a scam and he is merely a hoax to all Australians, particularly to the ones who voted him in (I am ashamed to be one of them).
FAILURES:
You have no doubt heard of these, however let me list a few of his failures:
- Fuel & grocery watch (what ever happened to that?)
- Home insulation scheme (resulting in the tragic loss of 4 lives - bastard dickhead Garrett should get the sack)
- GP super 'phantom' clinics unrealistic expectations (apparently one in Darwin has to source doctors from sydney to do weekend shifts at a rate of $7,000)
- Education 'revolution'/schooling infrastructure program (no need to explain - even the mainstream sunrise/today programs covered this without too much bias).
- Aboriginal housing scheme (built less than a handful of houses).
- ... etc... now I'm undoubtedly missing more here but have experience a bout of writers block, but you get the drift.
Please, feel free to add to my list of failures above... alternatively, by some sheer stroke of luck or ingenious mental strain, you may like to create a 'Successes' list (however, this is highly unlikely). By the way, saying sorry to the Aborigines doesn't count, just look how far this has taken us in reducing the gap (hint: not very).
Now I am no political know-it-all, I am actually only in my early 20's. But having grown up with the success' of the Howard government after the failues of the Keating government, I am seeing a disturbing trend emerge.
Now its your turn, to take the vote...
So, I thought it would be interesting to gauge a bit of a vote on farkin, using their high tech bar charting system to capture the output data (excuse the power data freak within) from your votes to get a sample of who could potentially be our next PM. Please make your vote and feel free to provide an explanation too. What I don't want to see is people abusing one another and making personal attacks, thats not what its about... Its about beating up our leaders/opposition etc etc, nit picking at them, the good the bad and then making a vote and explaining why...Please, no posts like "I'm too young" or "Politics is for dickheads". Nobody cares (and in fact don't even bother opening this thread - cos you're most likely a dead beat, ie. obviously not if you're too young).
So here I go...
Personally, being only a 2nd time voter (a coming of age thing) and after hearing the response of Tony Abbotts 'Right of Reply' on tonights ABC broadcast, I am definately leaning towards an Abbott led Coalition government.
I think anyone who can't see past all the incumbent government's failures is really just a diehard labour voter and following a 'labour born and bred' belief. I beleive that Kevin Rudd's typical demagoguery will be revealed as a scam and he is merely a hoax to all Australians, particularly to the ones who voted him in (I am ashamed to be one of them).
FAILURES:
You have no doubt heard of these, however let me list a few of his failures:
- Fuel & grocery watch (what ever happened to that?)
- Home insulation scheme (resulting in the tragic loss of 4 lives - bastard dickhead Garrett should get the sack)
- GP super 'phantom' clinics unrealistic expectations (apparently one in Darwin has to source doctors from sydney to do weekend shifts at a rate of $7,000)
- Education 'revolution'/schooling infrastructure program (no need to explain - even the mainstream sunrise/today programs covered this without too much bias).
- Aboriginal housing scheme (built less than a handful of houses).
- ... etc... now I'm undoubtedly missing more here but have experience a bout of writers block, but you get the drift.
Please, feel free to add to my list of failures above... alternatively, by some sheer stroke of luck or ingenious mental strain, you may like to create a 'Successes' list (however, this is highly unlikely). By the way, saying sorry to the Aborigines doesn't count, just look how far this has taken us in reducing the gap (hint: not very).
Now I am no political know-it-all, I am actually only in my early 20's. But having grown up with the success' of the Howard government after the failues of the Keating government, I am seeing a disturbing trend emerge.
Now its your turn, to take the vote...