Comments on: Rudd gettin’ busy with some nation building http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bernard Keane http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/#comment-18961 Bernard Keane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-18961 Venise I think, um, the fault lies with you for, like, driving into that car.<br /><br />But yeah, APART FROM THAT, I'm telling my kids to get into panelbeating. It's amazing how much that stuff costs. And they jack up when the insurance companies try to enforce a bit of competition. Remember when the NRMA tried that in Sydney? The NSW Government forced them to return to the old uncompetitive system.<br /><br />Between that and chemists and banking, there's your perfect no-competition careers right there. Venise I think, um, the fault lies with you for, like, driving into that car.

But yeah, APART FROM THAT, I’m telling my kids to get into panelbeating. It’s amazing how much that stuff costs. And they jack up when the insurance companies try to enforce a bit of competition. Remember when the NRMA tried that in Sydney? The NSW Government forced them to return to the old uncompetitive system.

Between that and chemists and banking, there’s your perfect no-competition careers right there.

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/#comment-18962 Venise Alstergren Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-18962 The intended largese of the Rudd government towards NSW should come as no surprise. They are the most important state. I, as a truly humble Victorian, acknowledge this fact. Politicians aren't famous for being fair but we peasants of VIC should stand up to King Rudd; by pointing out something that is also bleeding obvious.<br />As Kevin, and his little, busy, Catholic soul plans to allow another million migrants into this country, over the next three years, it is only fair that NSW should be the benefactors. If, for no other reason, than VIC is already wall-to-wall concrete. And NSW is the natural choice of the discerning migrant.<br />If our Kevin wants to put some solid foundations to his pie-in-sky 'Nation Building' scenario. Why doesn't he make sure that our existing systems are HONEST and VIABLE.<br />FOR EXAMPLE: Instead of importing more and more labour, let's teach the Oz working people some craftsmanship. THIS MORNING, I was easing out of a parking spot when my foot slipped off the brake and onto the accelerator. Traveling at a speed too low to register, I drove into the car in front of me. Being stupid I admitted my error. The man whose car I was driving rang me to tell me he had received a quote from the RACV insurance, the quote? Common Kevin you're so blo-dy smart. A minor piece of panel-beating. $3000<br />Where does the fault lie? With the workforce? I doubt it. It's the crookedness of the insurance racket. and if Kevin Rudd could take his eyes off naked little girls long enough to straighten out a corrupt industry he would be helping to build some strong foundations; for our 'Nation Building'. The intended largese of the Rudd government towards NSW should come as no surprise. They are the most important state. I, as a truly humble Victorian, acknowledge this fact. Politicians aren’t famous for being fair but we peasants of VIC should stand up to King Rudd; by pointing out something that is also bleeding obvious.
As Kevin, and his little, busy, Catholic soul plans to allow another million migrants into this country, over the next three years, it is only fair that NSW should be the benefactors. If, for no other reason, than VIC is already wall-to-wall concrete. And NSW is the natural choice of the discerning migrant.
If our Kevin wants to put some solid foundations to his pie-in-sky ‘Nation Building’ scenario. Why doesn’t he make sure that our existing systems are HONEST and VIABLE.
FOR EXAMPLE: Instead of importing more and more labour, let’s teach the Oz working people some craftsmanship. THIS MORNING, I was easing out of a parking spot when my foot slipped off the brake and onto the accelerator. Traveling at a speed too low to register, I drove into the car in front of me. Being stupid I admitted my error. The man whose car I was driving rang me to tell me he had received a quote from the RACV insurance, the quote? Common Kevin you’re so blo-dy smart. A minor piece of panel-beating. $3000
Where does the fault lie? With the workforce? I doubt it. It’s the crookedness of the insurance racket. and if Kevin Rudd could take his eyes off naked little girls long enough to straighten out a corrupt industry he would be helping to build some strong foundations; for our ‘Nation Building’.

]]> By: Kate McGregor http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/#comment-18963 Kate McGregor Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-18963 Sorry, just being a word nerd here, but 'skipping the semicolons' is perfectly alright. There are two styles of punctuating bullet points, the old, semicolon fashion and the newer, and preferred 'open' style that forgoes the semicolons, and just has the single full stop at the end of the list, as if the whole list were one sentence.<br />That said - in using this style the 'And' should be omitted. Sorry, just being a word nerd here, but ‘skipping the semicolons’ is perfectly alright. There are two styles of punctuating bullet points, the old, semicolon fashion and the newer, and preferred ‘open’ style that forgoes the semicolons, and just has the single full stop at the end of the list, as if the whole list were one sentence.
That said - in using this style the ‘And’ should be omitted.

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/#comment-18964 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-18964 Good article.<br />I suspect after an ETS this will be the issue of the next election. <br />With the structure of these 'future' funds (unlike Costello's) pork barreling on an hitherto unheard of scale is almost inevitable unless the media and opposition 'can keep the bastards honest'. Seeing as how the Coalition under Howard were guilty of the same crime the media need to stand up to the plate. <br />Pollies as much as the rest of us can give into nothing except temptation. Good article.
I suspect after an ETS this will be the issue of the next election.
With the structure of these ‘future’ funds (unlike Costello’s) pork barreling on an hitherto unheard of scale is almost inevitable unless the media and opposition ‘can keep the bastards honest’. Seeing as how the Coalition under Howard were guilty of the same crime the media need to stand up to the plate.
Pollies as much as the rest of us can give into nothing except temptation.

]]> By: Bernard Keane http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/#comment-18965 Bernard Keane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-18965 Didn't know that, Kate. I'm a bit old-skewl and prefer my lists to be like sentences that have just been assaulted with paragraph marks.<br /><br />Funny how usage innovations always require LESS work, not more. Well, not funny at all, in either sense. Still. Didn’t know that, Kate. I’m a bit old-skewl and prefer my lists to be like sentences that have just been assaulted with paragraph marks.

Funny how usage innovations always require LESS work, not more. Well, not funny at all, in either sense. Still.

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/08/rudd-gettin-busy-with-some-nation-building/#comment-18966 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-18966 Oye Venise! Aprenda a conducir un coche o llega a ser un carrocero........OR SOMETHING like that. Oye Venise! Aprenda a conducir un coche o llega a ser un carrocero……..OR SOMETHING like that.

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