Nanny State
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Silly Billy !!
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hahahahaha K2 I laughed way out loud when I saw that. No offence intended billy! Now what was that discussion we were all having the other day about being childish? haahha
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haha wow, thanks for that contribution, lanox 
Mark Webber today said speaking before today’s Australian Grand Prix, increasing rules and regulations left him feeling like he needed to read an instruction book before getting out of bed.
“I think we’ve got to read an instruction book when we get out of bed – what we can do and what we can’t do,” Webber said “Put a yellow vest on and all that sort of stuff. It’s certainly changed since I left here. It pisses me off coming back here to be honest. It’s a great country but we’ve got to be responsible for our actions and it’s certainly a bloody nanny state when it comes to what we can do.”
He was of course talking at the time about Victoria and more importantly about what I consider a storm in a tea cup when one of his fellow F1 drivers did a burn out in front of the Victorian police. Of course the police had to arrest this wayward driver because he was in no doubt a menace to society and would have surely killed at least 25 people in a road accident if not for the quick action of the Victorian Highway patrol to impound his car.
I’m sure that’s the story the Labor government will like to tell us. Ok I admit I did carry on a little there, but so did the cops that impounded his car over a trivial incident.
Problem is NSW is now becoming the same over policed over regulated can’t do anything with out breaking some stupid new government law that is some knee jerk reaction to what ever has happened on the day to save their political skin. I’m tired of politics on the run.
Take for example to latest NSW grab for money, It was said today that mobile speed camera’s will be reintroduced in NSW. This of course was for our own good because we have had some small increase in the number of deaths on our roads. Lets not forget that this increase is coming off an almost historical low base. And for Gods sake lets not mention that we have had a huge increase of cars on the roads year on year on year with all the money rapped from the NSW motorist like fuel, registration and insurance levies spent on things like the Sydney Metro or probably state politicians biscuits at parliament house.
I as a motorist in NSW am growing ever increasingly tired of being a mobile bank for incompetent Governments both state and federal. At my last count NSW already had more fixed speed camera’s and more red-light camera’s then any other state. Which is set to increase with the introduction of “safety camera’s” which do red-light and speed. Now as I have said we get the mobile ones back. I haven’t even touched on the subject of the number of patrol cars on the road hiding in bushes to nab that out of control driver doing 120 km/h on the dual carriage express way between Sydney and Melbourne.
Dont bring in more of your cash camera’s and tell me its for my own protection. If your going to bring them back in service then have the balls to say that they are only to increase the states coffers.
It too pisses me off that Governments around Australia have done nothing but increase the compliance requirement of its population. But I suppose that’s what a socialist regime does to its people. Over time removing the ability of the population to think for its self, telling it what is good and bad, which bring to mind yet another person currently telling me what is and what is not bad for me. “Steven -Ill tell you what you can look at on the net- Conroy”.
I’m am sure that If I ask 100 people here in Australia what their view on Adolf Hitler was, 99% would have very little good to say about his political views. But just how many of them can put 2 and 2 together and realize he was nothing more then the Leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party). The Labor party here is also a socialist workers party. (perhaps in a separate post I’ll continue this thought).
Wake up Australia before its too late, don’t allow elected government’s of either persuasion tell you what is good for you, you already know whats good for you I’m sure Australia as a nation is not that stupid yet.
The current path we walk is a very slippery slope, one that I’m not sure there is a path of return.
haha wow, thanks for that contribution, lanox
Cords my contribution always gets me in trouble… lol
anyways i was watching K2 video in another browser tab and i though this was the thread so i said
K2 it looked like you guys had fun.
Then i realized it was wrong thread.
so i removed it.
haha wow, thanks for that contribution, lanox
Cords my contribution always gets me in trouble… lol
anyways i was watching K2 video in another browser tab and i though this was the thread so i said
K2 it looked like you guys had fun.
Then i realized it was wrong thread.
so i removed it.
haha its fine, Lanox, I was only playing around! haha
I have to say, not exactly in defense of the nanny-state thing exactly, but I saw an abc news breakfast facebook status about a primary school on the north shore of sydney that had recently brought in the rule of no handstands, cartwheels or somersaults in the playground.
I do agree that is ridiculous and there were piles of people who were screaming “nanny-state!!!” on that status. I have to say though, that I feel like it may well be those same people, who tend to get up in arms about their rights and may well try to sue the school if it was their child who happened to be injured trying a handstand. Kids always fall flat on their backs trying this!...and heaven help the teacher who happened to be looking the other direction at the time, while watching a hundred kids in a playground at once. Some teachers, understandably, are not willing to take the risk of their career being over because of some little punk’s money hungry family.
Its because of the people who are so sure of their rights & what THEY are entitled to that schools (and other places) feel the need to protect themselves with rules like this. If people could suck it up and realise that a teacher can’t possibly be looking everywhere at once, and ISN’T out to get their child injured and that accidents do happen, the rules would be a lot more relaxed.
Just my 2c. As I said, I’m not in anyway in support of over-regulation, but in some instances the poor behaviour of the public forces the hand of companies etc.