Government Sanctioned People Smuggling.

Julia Gillard’s Government Sanctioned People Trafficing.

The Labor Partys’ “Malaysia Solution” of swapping 800 undesirable boat-people for 4,000 genuine refugees is merely “Government Sanctioned People Trafficing” and if I’m not mistaken, also includes a very large financial package to boot!

Isn’t paying money and other kickbacks to move people “People Smuggling?”

Again, this is just more evidence of the ALPs’ HYPOCRECY!

© by Christopher John Petersen

CBA’s “Coinland” fails in it’s philanthropically inspired endeavour to teach children about Financial Literacy.

CBA’s “Coinland” fails in it’s philanthropically inspired endeavour to teach children about Financial Literacy.

In order to make an evaluation of this “latest” philanthropic effort by the CBA to educate our youth about “Earning”, “Saving” and how to be “Financially Savvy” for the real world, we need to establish some equivalents for the purpose of doing so. So for this exercise, let’s say 1 Coinland coin = $1.00AUD and that the “Skills Packs” are a “Trade Qualification” for the worker and that the lack of a “Skills Pack” equates to “Unskilled Worker”. Bonus coins are paid to workers who beat their own best time/effort which eventually becomes more and more impossible to better. They also only provide banking facilities from one bank only (their own) and pay 4% interest per day which equates to 1,460% per annum (tax free). On the side of spending they charge realistic prices for rides, movies and buying clothes etcetera, (however teleportation is a bit of a stretch).

Okay, now let us look closer at these factors and how effective the outcome is in relation to what happens in real life (which is what they are pro-porting to prepare our children for).

1. Firstly, on the spending side of things most of the items and prices are basically comparable with their cost in the real world with a few exceptions. 
2. Teleportation? Is it possible in real life? What is wrong with Donkeys, Horses, Cars, Busses, Trains and Planes? Let alone what a child can really relate to like Scooters and Bicycles. 
3. 60 coins to become a Tradesperson in a given field? What happened to passing a proficiency test (doing a course) to get ahead in a given trade? Can you get a legitimate qualification in the real world just by paying a fee unless the system is intrinsically and FUND-A-MENTALLY corrupt? 
4. Paying a bonus coin for exceeding your best time/effort. This eventually becomes a disincentive when that time/effort becomes unsurpassable. Why not have it paid whenever the average time/effort is exceeded? Then there would be an on-going incentive to do the tasks, rather than no longer trying to do the job and being paid $2/minute ($120/hour) and doing nothing other than turning up for work and passing the time? You can agree to help serve drinks, serve none at all and still receive 3-6 coins for doing no work at all, just be there for 2 & ½ minutes. Who in the real world would get away with doing that time and again and not be dismissed or not be rehired? 
5. 1,460% per annum interest (tax free)? WOW I’d like to be able to get a 100^th of that rate (tax free or not). How does that rate have any significant bearing on reality? Other than to brain-wash our children to use their product. When in the real world the product offered to children discriminates against children by paying a lousy 4% per annum while other people are paid up to 60% higher interest. 
6. Only 1 bank is offered to the players which is a monopoly. Whereas in real life there are many banks to choose from for investing your money.   

The fact is, that the game has little (if any) bearing on reality. In reality the banks have what I call “Trap Accounts” for both Pensioners and Children. Pensioners are hoodwinked into having a “Pensioner Deeming Account” that pays 2% or so less than the Highest Rate available. In much the same way, children are hoodwinked/stymied into Children’s Bank Accounts paying at best 4% per annum interest when adults can earn 6.51% per annum at call. Who gets the rest of the interest, the bank does in the form of a greater margin on lending “your money” to others. A further disincentive to a child’s potential financial future is imposed by the government, by limiting the amount a child can earn in interest to about $500 per annum before having to pay tax, whereas an adult can earn in excess of $6,000 before they pay any tax at all on their income.

In summary, maybe one day children and pensioners will not be taken advantage of by the banks and the ATO, but I don’t think it will happen anytime soon.

© by Christopher John Petersen

Have we learned nothing from the movie "A Few Good Men"?

Have we learned nothing from the movie "A Few Good Men"?

Australian people say “We want the Truth”

ADF say “You can’t handle the TRUTH!”

Legislation should be introduced banning organisation(s) commissioned to represent and defend “The Ideals and/or Values” of Australia(ns) being run by FRATERNITIES. They invariably become a "Law unto themselves" and "unaccountable" to the people they pro-port to represent.

All the best,
Chris Petersen.

© by Christopher John Petersen

Could somebody please explain to Julia Gillard the purpose of a Carbon Tax.

So Julia Gillard thinks she has the right to impose her will of a Carbon Tax on all Australians and our trading partners. Well let us examine her credentials about having that right.

1. Became Prime Minister by stabbing Kevin Rudd in the back. (NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE)
2. Is now only Prime Minister in a MINORITY GOVERNMENT by winning 4 VOTES. (THE GREENS and 3 INDEPENDENTS) Yet on a 1 vote 1 value basis WOULD HAVE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE.
3. SHE THEREFORE HAS NO MANDATE TO MAKE ANY SWEEPING CHANGES TO ANYTHING!
4. Wants to introduce (WITHOUT A MANDATE TO DO SO) a Tax on the use of Carbon Polluting resources, and then give the money back (by way of hand-outs) to off-set any price increases. (THEREBY DEFEATING THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE CARBON TAX IN THE FIRST PLACE).
5. The woman just CAN'T BE TRUSTED. Just ask Kevin Rudd and anyone else who heard her assurances (PROMISES) prior the the 2010 Election.

When the Coalition introduced the Goods ans Services Tax, they went to an Election with it on the table and out in the open. They therefore had a Mandate from the people of Australia to do so. Julia Gillard has no such mandate, she barely has the right to collect existing taxes and pay the countries bills.

A Carbon Tax (if it is to achieve the desired result) SHOULD MAKE THINGS THAT USE FOSSIL FUELS MORE EXPENSIVE! It would thereby make less/non polluting sources of power/energy more attractive and affordable as an alternative. The mere idea of giving money raised from the Tax back to off-set the rise in the cost of using the taxed fuel IS LUDICROUS and self-defeating.

Julia, give us a Carbon Tax where ALL money raised from it goes to Renewable Energy research and development and subsidising clean-energy usage and installation. DO THAT, AND EVEN I WILL VOTE FOR IT!

© by Christopher John Petersen

Why won't they allow Same Sex Marriages?

Gay and Lesbian Marriages?  In fact all marriages including heterosexual marriages are allowed by The Grace of God. Enmity (differences) was only put between Adam and Eve and between Adam’s seed and Eve’s seed (so prior to them sinning they must have been of the same seed) and from then onwards required in sorrow and conception to bring forth children and live by the sweat of their brow as a punishment for being disobedient, NOT AS A REWARD.  It is not a breach of a commandment to be bound and faithful to your partner, it is only a sin to commit adultery or fornicate. If two people take up being together then “Let them be married”. If God’s will is such that he can say “let there be light” and there be light, then surely if he said “let them be married”, then they can be married. We are all God’s children (whether we believe it or not) and what father who’s child asks of him bread, would give them a stone?

Matt.18: 18-20 “Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father, which is in heaven.  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

Marriage is after all not a Heavenly institution, but rather an earthly/worldly institution, Adam and Eve where husband and wife by the Grace of God (who on earth married them?).  Indeed the fact God allows any marriages at all is a sign of His Grace and Love and if two people feel so strongly as being part of each the other that they desire not to be separate, then let them be as one in marriage and considered one in flesh on earth and in Heaven.

Matt.22: 30 “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.”

In praying “The Lord’s Prayer”, we pray “Our Farther which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven”.  If it is not God’s Will for ANYONE to marry in Heaven, then in fact we are praying for an end to all marriages on earth.  And then we pray “give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”. Therein we are asking God to provide for us what we need, yet we are happy to deny others what they need (to be married). By disallowing a couple from being married (thereby becoming one flesh which cannot sin against itself), aren’t we guilty of causing them to live in sin and commit adultery? Who then is the greater sinner? Yet we go on to ask to be forgiven our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Please forgive anyone for accusing you of being hypocrites!

God Bless you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Christopher John Petersen.
© by Christopher John Petersen

Does the Government Really Care about us?

Although the Government tries to make out that they are genuinely concerned about it’s citizens well being, when you fully consider what they are doing and how they are going about it, then it becomes perfectly clear where their True Priorities lie.

Illegal Drugs of Dependence;

Is the government really concerned for the people who are dependant on illegal drugs? Or is their only real concern, controlling the spread of diseases through the use of shared needles by intravenous drug users etcetera? The government spends millions of dollars on Safe Injecting Rooms and supplying free needles to people dependent on Illegal Drugs to financially assist them in continuing their addiction. They also provide millions of dollars toward clinics that assist in rehabilitating people who are dependent on illegal drugs. They even go so far as to provide substitute drugs at no charge to help people to quit their addiction to illegal drugs of dependence. They also promote and encourage people from as early as school age that sex is a recreational activity, yet act soo surprised about the increase in the cases of HIV and other STD’s. What the government misses out on getting because they haven’t introduced a Tax on Sex, they more than makeup on the sales taxes of associated products.

Legal Drugs of Dependence;

If however you are unfortunate enough to have developed dependence to Legal Drugs such as Nicotine or Alcohol, the only thing you can expect the Government to do is to burden you with massive additional taxes. One could also add to this category gambling because the “rush” generated from the prospect of a big win is also addictive and through lack of self control can become a serious financial problem. Another dependence the government is now being lobbied to introduce a tax on is “comfort foods” and foods that contain excessive amounts of fats and/or sugar, which are associated with the development of obesity.

Hardly Equitable and Fair;

The most disparaging fact about this situation is that billions of dollars of government revenue is freely spent on rehabilitation/treatments for people dependent/addicted to illegal/illicit drugs (the sale of which contributes NIL REVENUE). Yet, if you are unfortunate enough to get hooked on Cigarettes, Alcohol, Gambling or Eating the wrong types of food(s), all of which generate 10’s of Billions of Dollars in Tax Revenue to the Government each year, the most you can expect from the Government to assist you in beating your dependence/addiction is Lip Service on a (supposed) “Help/Quit Line” and/or a “How To” brochure (Do It Yourself). The fact is that the Government doesn’t want to stop a person from being addicted to anything that generates additional tax revenue(s); they just want to stop a person from being addicted to anything that doesn’t generate additional revenue for them.

How could this be fixed?

If the Government seriously wanted to assist people who have a habitual addiction, then why are they not doing the following? Have the cost of treatment/rehabilitation covered 100% by Medicare and any required medication (quit smoking aids) listed on the PBS for those persons quitting under the supervision and assistance of their Doctor. A similar approach could also be taken for persons who are chronically over weight. Unfortunately, the Governments/public idealism cannot be afforded by those who are effected/addicted, because the treatments are more expensive than continuation of their addiction(s). Rather than embracing and assisting people to get over disorders/addictions; the general public and government shun and/or alienate people who are in the most need of their help.