Seriously Nathan, are you a politician or a politician wanna be? Man, you choose to ignore so many crucial elements of how our governments bend us over as often and as regularly as they do.
For starters, the taxes paid by those that were here before us (lets just go back to our grandparents) paid for a majority of our now infrastructure. Electricity, roads, gas, sewerage etc. Now, we, the tax payer, have to continue paying to maintain these essentials even though the prior money collected by government to keep OUR (before the arseholes sold everything to privatisation) assets in good repair was pretty much pissed down the drain and or went to government lurks and perks. It still does. And once they realised the money they collected from taxes wasn't enough to maintain the infrastructure AND keep their lavish pay rates intact, taxes went up. And keep going up.
Abbott and co want most Aussie workers to forgo their entitlements and penalty rates while they (politicians) still get 15% pay increases ABOVE GDP every year and receive the most generous pensions in the economic world. And lets not forget how little time they actually spend at work.....I haven't done an in depth analysis on how much each and every politician costs this nation, but I reckon that 15% every year, divide by the lot of them, would alone go a long way to fixing our dilapidated infrastructure. Successive governments have let prior great infrastructure fall into disrepair. Our railways are a joke. Electricity, a joke. Roads, we all know how bad they are. Now they are letting most our major manufactures go by the wayside. Answer, lets buy BMW"s for the government fleet but ask every body else to work smarter and reduce costs! And lets not forget how many millions get spent every other election on re-modelling parliament and government house while the homeless and disabled struggle to find somewhere to eat, let alone sleep.
There are coal and gas mines in most NSW national parks, this is why they don't maintain access tracks. More access means more scrutiny.... I know, I've ridden into most of them and been chased out of ALL of them on my dirt squirts. And to think I was responsible for ruining the environment
Dirt bike riders are the heathen of society when they ride around or over gates and HUGE earth or concrete mounds in the middle of the scrub! Don't worry about the bulldozers and trucks it took to construct the obstacles in the first place
I'd love to know how locked gates help when attempting to fight fires. Some of the gates I've come across on bush tracks in the middle of National Parks must of cost 10's of thousands to put up. And at the end of the day, they are only there to stop people from entering mine land. Firefighters are not allowed to go past them unless someone from the mine comes to unlock them. Even if it means they have to turn around (if they can) and drive back through the hell hole they just came through.
How the fluck does it make sense to cut down the number of roads through any natural landscape? There will never an abundance of roads running everywhere. But having the ability to chose different paths to either fight or run from fire or flood is the right of everybody.
Seriously my friend, you need to stop reading and believing what you read in news papers and stop believing what comes out of politicians mouths.....the proof is in the pudding and our pudding is well and truly overdone.
