Psychadelic_Paisly said:[Dole payment without even looking for work. WTF?
All the people i know have just whitewashed their way through that requirement. Its bullshit and hasn't helped them get any job whatsoever. The majority of sane people will look for work because the dole is insufficient to live on. The people who don't look for work are lazy fuckers who would just bullshit their way through the requirement. My uncle, a centrelink officer loves telling us about the habitually unemployed and how they just apply willy-nilly for work that is not appropriate for them. Apart from pandering to people who don't care about the circumstances the liberals are just using a defenseless group by forcing them to follow them to follow a vexatious requirement. It degrades & depresses them more - who hasn't lost a job they really cared about and then been told, hey you have to go straight back to the work force. No time to stop buddy better keep walking otherwise you'll be eating from the bins again. I've been redundant twice now (i'm on my 5 telco) and i refuse to even walk into a centrelink office because of the bullshit they lay onto you. The same for most of my friends.
Taking farmers land? Guess they could get on the dole =P
The land is dying. Have you been out to the country? Have you seen the damage being caused cash crops, grazing? If you had then you would agree with a policy of saving it. The farmers are just fucking it up anyway. Would you prefer a salt desert or a lush area that can support sustainable farming?
You pick. If you like short-term gains go ahead but if you want the land to be here tomorrow then you should see the reason in their policies.
I'm no environmentalist and i would love to eat some whale sushi but i figure if we don't do anything about it now we won't ever be able to eat lush whale meat or hunt elephants in africa.
one last thing read the greens policies. I did after reading the above article. I didn't find one kooky piece of bullshit. I read their economic policy, the clauses, which highlight their priorities in running the economy. If anything I reckon some of it was ripped off the liberals website.
I double dare any mother fucker to go to that site, do a cut and paste and give evidence to show the greens are crazy - that their unpopular. Hell a snap poll on SMH showed that Bob Brown was more popular then the PM (13,000 votes).
Back to drugs though I would gladly vote for anyone that will stop people needlessly dying from drugs when they could have easily been saved. If you care for any of your friends or families who take drugs then take note they or even you could be next.
Sitting in a hospital having cerebral hemorrhaging is not fun - a reasonable and fair drug policy can help you avoid it.
the stupid gay tree huging save the whales homosexual fucks should fuck off
Pilltastic,
Not only are your arguments irrational and illogical they are also incoherant.
phase_dancer said:
In this instant I applaud the media for sensationalizing (incorrectly) the Greens policies. It's given Bob the chance to correct, and while doing so, stimulate much discussion and debate. All healthy stuff.
Brown backs off Greens' drug ideas
Gerard McManus and Michael Harvey
01 Sep 2004
RATTLED Greens leader Bob Brown yesterday rushed to distance himself from his party's policies on hard drugs.
Senator Brown, who admitted smoking dope in his mid-20s, denied some of his own party's policies.
"I don't back the illegal drug trade. I don't back an open slather, over-the-counter system," he said.
"I advise people not to (smoke marijuana) -- the medical evidence is not good."
But the Greens website advocates the controlled availability of cannabis at "appropriate venues". It proposes to investigate regulating the supply of ecstasy and unspecified drugs in controlled environments, and the removal of illicit drug use from the criminal framework.
Senator Brown's outburst follows a Herald Sun expose of his party's soft-on-drugs policy.
The revelations prompted wide debate about the Greens, whose recent polling indicates they might win the balance of power in the Senate in the new Parliament.
The Greens' other controversial proposals include a push to make Australians eat less meat but ride bicycles more frequently. They advocate higher taxes and new ones, such as inheritance taxes.
But Senator Brown appeared unaware of the Greens' own platform while lashing out at the Prime Minister's tough-on-drugs policy.
At a joint press conference with Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett to announce preference deals, Senator Brown admitted smoking marijuana but said he had learned better since.
"When I was in London back in 1970, I did sit in a circle with some Eritrean students and puffed on some marijuana, and I did inhale," Senator Brown said. "But I haven't since."
He said his party's policy would move away from the tough on drugs approach.
"The policy means let's look at alternatives instead of being hard-lined, narrow-minded like the Prime Minister is, which says that you must criminalise everybody who falls prey to the sale of drugs," he said.
"Current drug policies are prescriptive and harmful to young Australians using them, and they can die uninformed."
Senator Bartlett, who has had his own troubles with alcohol, said he had never used illegal drugs, and the Democrats' approach was different.
"Illegal drugs can be very harmful; I've seen some of the harm drugs can do. I've never used illegal drugs, but I don't condemn people who do," Senator Bartlett said.
"Increasing availability is rarely a wise move."
Labor leader Mark Latham also distanced himself from the Greens, whose preferences could be crucial for Labor's chances in marginal seats.
"Our policy is that we don't support the legalisation of drugs," he said.
Prime Minister John Howard said it was important that the Greens' agenda was fully exposed.