Red Alert? Australian Greens Showing True Colours? – Hands Off Australian Business, Watermelons!

posted by Scott Kane on Wednesday, September 30th 2009

Big Business CEO’s are paid obscene amounts!  There are few Australians who wouldn’t agree.  It is sickening to see leaders simultaneously preside over fiscal disasters and receive breathtaking rewards.

But the solution is not to cap their salaries.

The Greens want a $5 million cap on executive salaries. This may seem a reasonable idea.  It’s easy to rail against corporate greed.  But we must be careful and bear in mind that government does not own these businesses, individuals do,  directly or indirectly.

Our system of democracy allows each and every one of us to own property –  money, business and land – without effective limit.

Each and every one of us has that right!

Enter The Greens…

Very few Australians will ever enjoy multi-million dollar CEO salaries.  But there is no legal impediment to anyone doing it.

It can’t be stated more strongly.  Once we limit pay, it limits our right to conduct free enterprise as we see fit – within the already reasonable limits of existing law – and I see a clear and present socialist agenda.

A dangerous agenda coming from a political party that has positioned itself far to the left of Labor.

This raises the spectre of the bogey man the Conservatives loved to throw at us for decades, but for once with some merit.  Greenism Socialism.

Let me confirm I do not own shares or have a pecuniary interest in any corporations.  I run a small business.

The fair and reasonable position on this issue comes from the group  many Australians – and certainly The Greens – are likely to dismiss:

The Australian Shareholders Association.

The Australian Shareholders Association says legislation is not the answer.  They are right.

“If there is a substantial negative vote against a remuneration … (and) if the company has not made substantial changes (in the following year) … we will be voting against the re-election of any directors,” Association chair Helen Dent said on ABC Radio.

That is how the system is designed to work.  That is the proper process.

One could argue the system Helen Dent outlines has been remiss.  It’s a fair point.  But the people in that system – shareholders, management and directors – are the ones financially hurt if executive salary largesse continues.  Let them sort it out.   They have a direct interest in doing so – and will!

Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen identifies the issue correctly when he says “We don’t live in an economy where the government can come in and put a cap on.”

He’s right – though he should have also said we don’t live in a political system where the government can legislate a cap either – at least not yet!

Much to Senator Bob Browns’ chagrin.

Stick To Trees And Furry Furbies Bob Brown!

We know The Greens loathe business – they don’t waste any opportunity heaping compost on it.

We know they have serious issues with the number of people living on planet Earth and want reductions there too.  Try to pin them down on the implications of what they call “sustainable population” in their policies some time!

Reduce who?  You, your family, me - Black people?  Poor people?  The mentally deficient?  Moslems?  Calvinists?  Jews?

They’ve turned the Senate from a “House of Review” into “The House of No”.

I suppose some readers are thinking “Stop scare mongering, Scott!”  But making little snips here and there to our system, as The Greens do, only serves to diminish, undermine and ultimately damage our system.

They’ve caused enough damage to this country – witness Black Saturday February 7th 2009 and the nonsense we’re excruciatingly aware of when it comes to The Greens and fuel reduction.

But please…

Don’t let The Greens burn down our business and political system too!

Scott Kane

Queensland Bushfires- The Shape Of Summer To Come For Victoria.

posted by Scott Kane on Tuesday, September 22nd 2009

As Total fire bans came into force from midnight in much of southern and central Queensland, and a second wave of fire bans will start throughout the southeast, including Brisbane, from Tuesday night (11.59pm AEST).

Is this the shape of a summer to come for Victoria?

The question may be rhetorical, but the answer is definitely “Yes.”

With the Weather Bureau warning El Nino is with us in full force,  the problems faced in Queensland are equally probable in Victoria:

We have done nothing to prepare for the coming bushfire season.

We’ve had a Royal Commission sift through the ashes, charged with the delicate responsibility of not finding fault, but we’ve had no decisive action.

Locally the greenie groups are still railing on about how the bush “buffers fire” – without a shred of credible science to support the assertion – and are not being called on this nonsense.

We’ve heard claims around where I live in the electorate of McEwen – the area destroyed by February 7th Black Saturday – that fuel reduction efforts will be met by “civil disobedience”.

This is probably the same ratbags who protested at Hazelwood power station a few weeks ago.  Rabble using force for a cause no Victorian can afford to have implemented – the immediate closure of a power station with no replacement facility.

Such is the thought processes of the cult of Green.

Yes, the current power stations are filthy.  But close them before viable alternatives are up and running?

Ridiculous!!

The power station owners have already announced a maintainance moratorium – condemning Hazelwood and Yallourn to an immediate decline – and the big new gas-powered peaker at Mortlake will be ready for summer.  But this still isn’t good enough, oh no!

Our thoughts turn to the people in Queensland, in hope their bushfires don’t degenerate further.  At the same time we pause to consider the consequences for rural Victoria of the lack of any real action or preparation or protection undertaken by the Brumby Labor government.

We should also consider why the Liberal Party have been so ineffective in holding the government to account – as is the job of Her Majesty’s Opposition.

We must consider what the feral fringe, and the party they ask you to vote for – The  Greens – are doing to each and every one of us with their worship of eucalyptus totem poles, on which they insist every Victorian in fire prone areas be sacrificed like the witches of  Massachusetts.

Every Victorian needs to be loud and vocal about this.  It is time to say “no more”.

Caring for the environment is essential, but the decaying organic matter on a eucalyptus forest floor is not lovely compost or trapped carbon dioxide, it is fuel for the holocaust, coming to your home this summer!

We must reduce the fuel load by widespread burning off in the small time available before summer, or stop the rebuilding and evacuate the people.  This is the consensus of scientifc advice to government.

Premier Brumby has stark and unpalatable choices before him.

Don’t burn us again.

Scott Kane