What the fuck is wrong with Tony Abbott

I don't know really, the dude must have been dropped on his head... repeatedly, as a baby, the guy is honestly a social dropkick. I have to preface the following by saying that since leaving Australia, I've been able to contemplate the goings on over there with less personal investment, in a way, whatever happens doesn't really affect my day too much. Formerly, it was at times annoying to live in Australia, being under a steadier stream of more in depth news about what our government gets up to. In many ways, I used to feel a sense of shame when issues like the TAMPA, or our inaction on global warming popped up, I always thought, "geez, how do other countries view us?"

The answer is, most other countries don't care, I've become well aware of this now. But recently, right at the moments when Australia finally has been getting a few great and might I add LOGICAL ideas right, like a Carbon Tax, and restrictions on poker machines, a small minded group of Australians are starting to make waves, waves that are reaching me here in Germany, and making me uncomfortable. This small minded group call themselves the Liberal Party, and the clown leading them is literally Chauncey Gardner.

I mean what the fuck, he is going on about rescinding a carbon tax and rescinding reforms on poker machines. What the liberals don't seem to know, yet understand how well it sells to anyone dumb enough to vote for them, is that in today's media cycle, words really do speak louder than actions. They say, with crocodile tears in their eyes, that they want to do something to reduce carbon emissions, and then propose some total trash like voluntary restrictions. They say that they are serious about helping problem gamblers, but claim a system like choosing how much money you are willing to lose reeks a bit too much of the nanny state.

I mean, here it is nutbags... You want a voluntary solution to carbon emissions, how about this. The Australian people went to the polls last year and elected the two parties that volunteered to enact some kind of financial deterrent for releasing greenhouse gases. In a sense, the people demonstrated to the parliament their willingness to volunteer a modest amount of their income toward tackling greenhouse emissions. This is exactly what Labor and the Greens seem to be getting down to. I mean, who do the Liberals think they are, suggesting that corporations voluntarily reduce emissions is a contradiction in terms in a capitalist society, they know this though, and to some dullards, wanting to reduce emissions through some dimwitted voluntary scheme sounds like caring policy without the need for some kind of (heavily scientifically backed) authority, like say the government, needing to step in to ensure emissions actually do get reduced.

I mean, people far more educated than most anyone in the Liberal party, like Sir Nicholas Stern or Professor Ross Garnaut have already done all the thinking for them. When the science and the statistics and most importantly for the Liberals, THE ECONOMICS add up, you get behind the fucking movement 100%. The voters of Australia need to understand that the Liberal party do not have your interest, or Australia's interest or the planet's interest at heart, they need simply to jump off this bandwagon because they can't stand the people driving it, and they will tear as many other people off it as they can through the kind of nefarious tactics we are seeing.

Next theme, pokies. Yet another eminently prudent and once more LOGICAL piece of legislation the Liberal party are dead set against. I mean, it's like this. Gambling has literally ZERO benefit to society, in a way it infringes upon the freedom of each and every one of us. The cost to society to reform problem gamblers takes money away from say, improving public transport, impinging on your freedom of movement just a little bit, it takes money away from people with other mental diseases, impinging on their right to proper medical care. Does anyone want an example of a society that knows how to deal with gambling? MONACO, residents of Monaco are forbidden from gambling in the principality's one casino. The richest (per capita) country in the world knows where it is at, maybe we should consider doing the same, opening casinos only for foreigners, after all, most of the clientele in the casino in Brisbane didn't seem to have english as their first language.

Honestly Australia, get with the program, show you've got something between your ears and vote for any party that would not abolish the carbon tax or oppose poker machine reforms. And moreover, smack that idiot Abbott down for the second time in a row, it's the only way he'll learn.