____ wrote on Nov 7
th, 2014 at 9:39am:
aquascoot wrote on Nov 7
th, 2014 at 9:27am:
I think the selling of high quality protein into south east asia is one area where we can earn much needed foreign exchange.
certainly the rapidly growing middle classes in china will have an appetite for our meat, milk and fruit.
rather then sell our land to the Asians, its far more sensible to sell them the produce.
even gough wanted to "buy back the farm"
the green policies on farming are disastrous and are already resulting in many bankruptcies and many farmers leaving the land and the younger generation not willing to stay.
we need the greens (most of whom are urban intellectuals) to admit that the farmers are the true custodians of the land.
the greens never visit, the aborigines (and I have nothing against aborigines) live in rural communities and aren't looking after the issues that the landscape now requires.
so it is up to the farmers to
1 make the export dollars to spend on the urban dwellers (most of whom produce nothing in terms of export dollars)
2 look after and rehabilitate the land from previous bad farming practices.
the farmers and the miners are the only hope the urban dwellers have.
tell me what a city like Adelaide earns in terms of currency for the country?
such cities exist as service centres for their own communities and are (in a way) parasitic on the productive sectors .
so I urge the greens not to mess with the farmers and miners (which is about all they've done for the last 20 years)
Adelaide has an international airport and reaps the reward from it via foreign tourists.
Adelaide has culture in things like Womadelaide. More tourism dollars.
Wine Districts of the Clair, Barossa, and Maclaren. S.A biggest percentage of country's wine exports.
Excellent education Hub for foreign students.
Excellent Renewable Energy Sector, with a progressive Greens fed government would boom even further.
Sports that created more foreign tourism, like the tour down under.
Many on the right put the boot into Adelaide via staving it of fresh water, Adelaide has a lot to offer.
Im not putting the boot in. im asking if it earns enough export dollars to support the import requirements of a million people. I suspect the answer is no, as it would be for every city in Australia.
only rural and regional Australia pay their way (and then some) . this is very unjust as they receive sub standard services in areas of health education and infrastructure.
the greens worsen this position considerably by making a difficult job more difficult with their "green tape".
so even a simple thing like putting a new road across a creek to access a paddock now requires input from a bureaucrat. I note that they always approve such things once they have received their $$$ via some ridiculous 10 page form that needs to be filled out, late at night by some exhausted farmer.
enjoy your pine nut and eggplant salad greens, have a moccacino for me (or should that read "on me" )
Protecting the environment, protecting the land, and in so protecting Australians is not Green Tape.
Attacking Australians by degrading our natural assets and so reducing the quality of life, and health of the people results in higher cost of living pressures on all households.
The gnats should be strung up for the long term damage they are causing just so foreign multinationals can shite on everyone, their toxins. The gnats are a pack of gutless loonies pretending to serve a purpose outside of being the dags on the rear end of the libs.
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