Re: Deer in the Headlights
Reply #28 –
It's so easy to fact check stuff these days but the same old garbage keeps getting regurgitated.
A former NSW fire and rescue commissioner, Greg Mullins, wrote this week, “Blaming ‘greenies’ for stopping these important measures is a familiar, populist, but basically untrue claim.”
But what would he know? He is obviously a pinko-green
Now, back to Scotty from marketing!
First of all, four years ago, the National Aerial Firefighting Centre asked the Government for a "national large air-tanker" fleet to confront a growing bushfire threat. The Government, with Scotty at the forefront as Treasurer, rejected the request.
Remember Bill Shorten? He was promising $101 million to set up a national aerial bushfire fighting fleet of aircraft, with up to six large air water tankers and 12 helicopters, and boost the funding for the existing National Aerial Firefighting Centre. The new aerial unit was to include a team of "smokejumpers", or firefighters who would rappel from helicopters armed with chainsaws, hoes and other tools to set up containment lines around fires in remote areas.
I wonder if folk would prefer increased firefighting capacity over tax imputation credits now?
Anyway, back to Scotty from marketing: Of course he deserves a holiday. After all, I believe that Parliament sat for less days this year than any time since the end of the First World War. Cramming the year's business into 45 days or whatever it was must have been really tiring and a nice break on the South Coast would have done wonders. Hang on, the South Coast is on fire so why not p1ss off to Hawaii for a while. Of course, when you get back, don't apologise for your lack of leadership and appalling judgement. Instead use weasel words to blame the folk who are upset with you. That's marketing 101 ... or not.
I could go on but I would be here for ever. Let's just focus on Scotty forcing handshakes on the young pregnant mother who had just lost everything and the exhausted firefighter who had just lost his house. Scotty explained it away as people being upset and that's partly right; they are upset with a government that's in the pocket of Murdoch and the mining industry and with a Prime Minister who couldn't lead ants up a dead dog's arsk!
And don't get me started on his Pentecostalism and its influence on our civil society