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Originally Posted by dpastern
Yeah well...there are ways of fixing this mess up, but sadly, none of the current political parties are even remotely interested in doing the right thing by their constituents. All they care about is money. We'd need a new party with a majority in both the house of representatives and the house of senate. One to introduce the laws, the next to approve them. Telstra and banks would be on my hit list as well. Oh, and doctors and dentists. Add lawyers to the list as well. Add large corporations and rich buggers as well to the list whilst I'm at it. Oh yes, there'd be a world of hurt for a lot of areas as far as I'm concerned.
Dave
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Tried that....I was the VP of a political party here in QLD and I was in the process of sending it national. Didn't work in the end...same old story, too many people near the top wanting power, too much ambition and back stabbing. I ended up leaving...no matter what I did to get things going I always found obstacles in the way and I just didn't want to deal with the dishonesty and backstabbing. You try to do the right thing and you get taken down, and quite frankly I didn't want to play their games. How can you do the work you're supposed to do when the rest of the executive of the party you're in is always playing power games. I probably could've done the same, but I'm not that type of person. I tried to get things organised, but always had someone undermining me.
I can tell you now, it's not worth it unless you can find people that are decent enough as people and that will work for the greater good and not themselves. Never trust lawyers (funny I should say that, I have friends who are lawyers!!), no matter what they say or do where politics is concerned. No, in politics, you have no friends and the only person you can rely on is yourself. Although, politicians can't even do that, for the most part. 90% of the time they compromise their own ethics if it means more money and/or power.