Grumpy Old Nasho

No, that super team is for you, the ordinary patient, to provide justice and the human way, acting in your best interest.

That's right! So now you must adapt to one more change. The effects of the new Trump administration. Roll with the punches and keep going.

First clue for new Health Policy, or part thereof - A beautiful all powerful highly paid Super Medical Troubleshooting team. With authority to sack just about anyone, hospital managers and staff, doctors both public and private, government ministers in health portfolios, health insurance company CEOs. That's all for the time being, absorb that bit first.

I have another big beautiful policy to announce soon, relating to the medical industry. You'll love this one.

I believe Australia was planning de-industrialization back in the sixties, then the plan was carried out in the 70s and 80s. We were told to "re-train" to do something else - remember that?

Yeah like no one here knew where Vietnam was.

Putin is agreeing to ceasefire terms. Not long to go now before the fighting ceases.

Yeah well Albo wants to start it up again, presumably so we don't have to pay tariffs on imported goods.

Guess what? Albo is pushing for Australian manufacturing. Why was it stopped in the 70s and 80s? Our domestic market was too small everyone reckoned, but it's not too small now is it?, just ask Albo. Does anyone know what they're doing in Canberra?

She didn't have to travel overseas, the major parties are making us feel self pity about our situation they've got us into. You can see now what happens when an ally is not strong and independent in itself. We've relied on the United States, and dependent on it for far too long. It's become second nature and has controlled our mindset.

No, Trump is a benevolent but inadvertent eugenicist, with a great need to maintain maximum freedom for his fellow Americans.

You think it's any better for veterans here onetrack? Look in your own backyard first. Matt Keogh just said, "Australian veterans won't be getting the generous medical treatment US veterans get. We've got to look at treatment for veterans in Australia from an Australian context" We all know what that means, don't we? Very selective treatment for a select few veterans. That's what it means. This is in spite of what Trump's doing, Trump is cutting costs. But US veterans still get treatment as always. Keogh is only shunning ours. If you think Trump is bad, then Keogh is a miserly bastard who sees veterans as political mileage for the Labor party.

The tariffs on aluminium and steel wouldn't be much in terms of total cost to Australia because not much of those products go to the US. Albanese would have been brought up to speed by the multinationals that produce them here, with an assertion that they know best how to handle Trump and Albo needn't worry his little head over it. I could tell all along that those tariffs weren't going to affect Australia greatly, and Albo has just reassured us by saying there's no need for Aust to reciprocate. So there you go.

I thought that myself, but it's more than my village gets. Aboriginals in remote locations have helicopters fly in as mobile polling booths, and us whities in here in our villages don't count at all. We should paint ourselves black, then we might get something.

The AEC stipulates 16kms round trip, I'm blowed if I'm gunna travel 74kms total. If they could set up a polling booth for this bloke, they can surely bring one closer to my village.

Because "one more", compulsory voting, was brought in by the major parties, it's not a requirement of the Universe or the Crown, and it can be changed back to voluntary voting, so it's not a permanent fixture with all the BS myths associated with it. It's only the dictatorial major parties and their followers that want it, and they've decreed it a duty of citizens to comply. Who are they to tell to do anything? Before it became compulsory, it was voluntary, for what selfish reason did the major parties change it? Did they hold a referendum? And what about public funding? Where are they going with that? To continually stay in power and rule, that's where. Besides, I'm not making a 74k round trip to the nearest polling booth, or PO mailing box, until I'm promised remuneration for fuel and wear and tear and lunch money.

Makes no difference to me, if something is compulsory, particularly and especially a demand by government decree, then it's dictatorship

So you're saying that compulsorily getting your name crossed of the roll, is not dictatorship?

Compulsory voting is dictatorship, is it not?

Except later on when I reached out to ministers trying to find out if we'd get some compensation for doing what they wanted us to do under duress. Of course they wouldn't, and that's when it kicked in that a bloke really felt like a sucker and a loser. So to me at least, it doesn't matter when I began to feel that way, it was very true, and I'm glad Trump said it because it's exactly how I feel, and my guess is that about 60-70% of other conscripts feel the same way. That group NashoFairGo knows it too.

"Electors who fail to vote at a State election, and do not provide a valid and sufficient reason for such failure, will be fined. The penalty for first time offenders is $50, and this increases to $75 if you have previously paid a penalty or been convicted of this offence. If you do not have a valid and sufficient reason for not voting, you can pay the penalty and that will end the matter. Electors who do not respond to notices or do not pay the prescribed penalty may have the matter referred to the Fines Enforcement Registry and could have their driver's licence suspended." https://www.elections.wa.gov.au/vote/failure-vote Nice!

Yes we were. All of us should have resisted it from the very start. We were too young and naive to understand the consequences of a failing to fight against it. Four predatory animals dragging away a resistant conscript.

I won't be brushing it aside, because it's true, for conscripts, we were absolutely suckers and losers, 100%. One of my main goals in life after discharge was to advise as many young guys as possible not to obey any order to comply with any military conscription, ever. And I did advise, and the word spread with other conscripts also advising young blokes. Patriotism is now dead in Australia. The fed govt is now recruiting foreigners to fill vacancies in the military, but it's costing millions of dollars as an incentive. Us conscripts got nothing, a big fat zero. So trump was quite correct, we were suckers and losers.

You conveniently side stepped my main point. Consider how our veterans were/are treated before criticizing how US veterans are treated. Admittedly I raved on a bit, but it was to describe a few things that I endured to make the point that our politicians were mongrels who refused to acknowledge the difference between "voluntary", and "compulsory", one is by free will, the other is under duress. Need I say any more? Conscripts were treated like they were volunteering, because we turned up and signed papers. And therefore, the politicians saw little or no need to rehabilitate us back into the general community, regardless of how much they will brainwash you now telling you they did everything they could. American veterans are highly respected by their community, and if they get shoved off the government payroll, you can bet they'll be helped in other ways.

Veterans are revered in the US, unlike here in Australia. To our politicians, veterans and ex servicemen are a disease that won't go away. That's how I was treated after discharge, I had no place to stay, no job, no money, I was left destitute, then had to crawl my way back up in a time of recession. Whenever I applied for a job, and wrote down "two years military service" as my last job of employment, I never got those jobs. It wasn't until I omitted that from the job applications, that I started to get jobs. I just never mentioned "military service" from then on. My mate was charitable enough to let me stay at his place free of rent for a while till I started to get back on my feet. Eventually I did, but it was a hard slog, a slog thrust on me because of a very unappreciative Nation and Govt. The veterans sacked in the US will still get looked after, it already said that if you'd bothered to read and listen. But you keep raving on about one side of the story to suit your selfish egos. Be more intelligent for a change. Don't hate for the sake of hating for heavens sake.