Politicians V the people
Politicians V the people – to get a fair go
In 2025 we are surely on a battle ground of politicians V the people for the vast majority of Australians to receive a fair go at living.
Housing crisis stoked along by federal politicians lining the bank vaults of the big developers and banks, the wallets of the big business bosses who pocket nearly $1 million a month while Australians live in tents and caravans.
Investors lose their life savings while hopelessly big-business-biased-ASIC and moneylender owned AFCA do their best to defeat the victims and enrich the fraudsters.
Politicians pour immigrants into Australia to offer cheap staff and heightened demand for almost everything. The inevitable cost-of-living crisis dampens spending and we are really already in recession with a couple of million extra immigrants for the government to look after if the economy crashes. Who will survive a recession with lost jobs, high debt and rising prices?
Life savings lost
Older people who trusted salesmen and directors with their money in housing projects forgot about the need for real estate security when investing in long term leased homes. Or never knew.
The politicians are now trying to make up for their massive mistakes by offering built-to-rent housing with what they call longer term rental agreement – like 5 years. So how does that give a 50 year old an owned roof over their heads at age 80 or 90? The government by its immigration neglect has deprived a generation of Australians to be renters for life and in their 80s and 90s they will be dependent on someone else for that roof over their head. There is only one way to have lifetime home security and that is to own it outright.
I saw people on TV tonight talking about class action against ASIC for negligence. “We will fight on”, a lady said having lost their life savings. Why are the directors not in gaol? Why did ASIC allow a company to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from elderly couples and individuals without them getting real estate mortgage security for their money. Even a junior accountant would know that was important. The real question is should some ASIC officers be in gaol for allowing it to happen?
Government neglect
The crisis caused by immigration at many times the rate of our natural increase matched with the halving of the tax rate for the big billionaire businesses that are making so much profit from it is beyond the ability of our government to handle. It is causing the federal government to dump millions of migrants on state governments, then underfund those state governments for schools, hospitals, public transport, family services, fostering, illegal drug trade prevention. Sydney has been turned into the city of murders, with killings weekly on top of skyrocketing domestic family and sexual violence. The police, court system and gaols are incapable of even being close to coping with the problems. What is provided by governments is what will most quicky deliver votes in the next election.
Something should be done!
A journalist the other day urged the parliament to get the community working on one of the major issues. But he had it wrong way around.
In all matters the community has to get the parliament doing what is needed. It is the Australian people who must drive any issue at all. The Members of Parliament are elected as representatives and so they need to be told what the people want done and persuaded to have the public service do it. They do not lead the people. They follow. How could it be otherwise when political careers depend on being re-elected by the community every few years. Voters need to do the leading and Votergrams were designed to enable them to do just that.
The solution
Nearly 40 years ago I came up with the solution and launched the Votergram. I learned that MPs were not the sort of people we see ridiculed in the media. They are just like the people in your street and mine. They are anxious to help when the voters ask them to in the right way. They are the most powerful people in Australia, easily within reach of all voters. Votergrams ask them all, in order to find those interested in any particular issue.
It is not enough to stamp our feet and protest on street corners making politicians look stupid. What we need to do is patiently contact them and explain what is needed and explain why. Ideally we will provide them with good sensible solutions for them to choose from.
Parliament is better than any court. Voters have no control over judges at all so we see murderers and rapists get a few years gaol for a life taken or ruined. A man threatens to blow up a plane full of travellers in the air and he is given 14 months of community service,
Lower corporate tax rates and higher immigration mean that we no longer have facilities to keep the criminally insane well clear of the general public. Nor do we provide the proper treatment for mental illness, but our governments will fiercely protect the gambling industry that bans those who win too often so that it only has to collect its dues from losers. Gambling taxes benefit those in power.
Give it a Go!
Too right, Give it Go – and the someone to give it a go is you and me. If we do not get off our backsides and make our elected parliamentary representatives do what is required to fix Australia’s woes the country stands a good chance of being at serious risk of recession, even depression, foreign invasion, climate change or a great gulf between the super-rich and the dirt poor.
Votergrams give every Australian the power and influence needed for them to individually guide their parliaments to shape their society for honesty, fairness and equality of opportunity. It is no good saying that somebody else will do it because they won’t.
For the price of a weekly cup of coffee and the time taken to drink it, every Australian could make a huge contribution to improving society. Give it a go with a Votergram every couple of months on your most important issue and patiently watch how well your parliament and public service perform for you.
Greg, The Votergram man