Tom's Blog on Life

When foreign interests control our wealth creating assets, the benefits of those assets no longer stay in Australia. Our tax laws favour foreign owned interests. They pay only 10% withholding tax on declared profits, many of which are siphoned off shore. The decisions are made off shore, the profits go off shore, and this puts our jobs, skills and reinvestment at risk.
Many of the countries buying our land, do not even allow their own citizens to buy land, and yet we are proposing to allow control of these assets in competition with our owned. > How are we going to pay off our national debt if we do not control the assets which will feed us, and future generations.
>How can we take advantage of the Asian opportunities if we do not own and control the assets in our own country.
>Successive government have ignored the plight of our farmers and the decline of on farm income and their rising debt.
>They have ignored consequences of policies which have allowed the control of every major food commodity, except rice, beyond the farm gate to be controlled by foreign interests.
>They have signed free trade agreements with countries that do not meet our standards while our exports still bear tariffs.
TIME TO WAKE UP AUSTRALIA! – This is our country, these are our people and this is our future!
We are not saying no to foreign investment but we should retain controlling interest of 51% to ensure our majority control ownership and transparency of the transactions and the decisions that are made here. What we have currently is not investment, it is takeover and Australia will not benefit.
A country that cannot water itself, feed itself, secure its energy, transport and infrastructure, which ignores the skills of its own people and their knowledge of our land puts our future at risk. The new parliament should be representing our long term interests and get Australians and Australian assets working for Australia again.
Sign this petition to show your support and this will be forwarded to every politician in the Senate, lower and upper house in all parties and we urge you to get your friends and family to sign it as well.
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/australian-government-say-no-to-the-sale-of-our-assets-till-we-have-a-national-interest-test-2

The original whistle blower, General Smedley Darlington Butler, who at one time was the most highly decorated marine in history, later in life became a major anti-war activist.
His book ‘War Is A Racket’, which is only 15-30 minutes in length is an ABSOLUTE MUST READ and details the inner workings of the military industrial complex a century ago. As you will see, nothing has changed. War indeed, is a racket.
Read his book online for free here: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.