NSW TOLL ROAD RIP-OFF vs Poor People Lynched on their Leases
Hey folks, what's happening in NSW lately....! I saw on TV news there was a
punch-up in your state parliament, which by any measure is un-forgivable.
You don't just inadvertantly walk around a huge wooden table.....the
equivalent of walking through 3 rooms distance in a domestic house, then
grab an opposition politician and start punching and choking him
We've seen full on riots amongst the politicians in Taiwan parliament
before.......easy to fix , simply a loud announcement over the loudspeaker
system..."anyone NOT sitting in their seats with their hands on their heads
within 15 seconds will get a lifetime ban from ever being in the
parliamentary chamber ever again, plus they'll lose their job and all of
their accrued pension/superannuation benefits " .....job done, no childish
ruckus in parliament ever again, whether it be NSW or Taiwan
However one point that one of those NSW pollies made later, did seem to have
some merit
He was referring to some section of the NSW Pacific highway, somewhere near
Kempsey or vicinity, remember where they had that horrific bus crash many
years ago and many people were killed, (oh hang on, that doesn't matter, as
they were only poor people, all the rich people and politicians were flying
instead)
Anyway the guy said that years on, they were still screaming out for
concrete divider between the lanes of opposing directional traffic, where
cars currently still whizz by at 100 kmh, just inches apart, separated by
all the safety of a painted white-line
He said that within days or weeks of opening, a concrete divider had been
placed in a particular Sydney street (with much slower moving traffic)
simply for the purpose of, almost forcing, motorists to use the new
"Cross-City" tunnel.
Note that this is a new privately owned tunnel, so all profits get plundered
from motorists and fly off to goodness only knows where, to line the pockets
of a few filthy rich.
So apparently NSW roads "can " provide concrete traffic control barriers
when a private company's profits are at risk, if people are allowed to make
a voluntery choice NOT to use their products or services.
Then just after seeing that in the tv news I happened to read in a newspaper
over the weekend that Macquarie, a huge multinational investment
conglomerate was going down in share prices of late. Note I'm not sure but
think maybe Macq own the new Cross City tunnel. The newspaper article was
more about how over extended they were becoming, having recently bid more
than a billion dollars more than the competition to buy a certain Chicago
(USA) toll-road franchise that gives them a 99 year lease. The newspaper
article pointed out the similarities with ENRON where a company got too big
too fast, (leaving behind it's core business) only to have it collapse in a
heap, a month after someone had the guts to stand up and say "But the
Emperor isn't wearing ANY clothes !"
Who do government's think they're fooling when the offer 99 years leases on
things to big corporations, that's as good as a sale. In 99 years time
we'll probably use "Stargates" or "Transporter" type technology to travel
around.
It's amazing though how a 99 year lease, when offered to "little people" can
simply by unilaterally evaded by the govt with just the single stroke of a
pen, when it wants to
Some 40 or so years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand there was a program to
assist low income families to buy into their first home. To save on the cost
of buying the land, (the land cost being a substantial component of the
initial price) the govt offered new housing blocks, in a cheap-arse area of
the city's extreme outer edge, on a 99 year lease, at "peppercorn" rental
(very cheap). The lease contract also gave the homebuyer (who owned the
actual house structure which they'd have built) the right to buy the land
whenever they wanted to, at the fixed price of 500 NZ Pounds currency. NZ
changed to metricated dollars and cents currency in 1967, and 500 pounds
became $1,000
Then one day sometime around 1988, the rip-off mongrels in the government,
showed themselves up to be the lying theiving scumbags that they are by
sending everyone letters indicating that their "locked in for 99 years"
annual peppercorn rent for the land was to skyrocket in price. The people
could still buy their land if they wanted, but the govt had shifted the
goalposts and unilaterally broken the earlier written agreements they'd
made, and upped the price payable for the land from P.500 ($1,000) to
$20,000
Yep, a true story. Some good friends of mine, a poor family, were put in
that exact situation.
The newspaper article about Macq mentioned that Melbourne's tollways only
exist by getting huge govt subsidies which the hotshot accountant types
disguise, but they're effectively gifts of public money to private profit
making companies owned by rich-pricks.
Well as governements have shown that they can cancel long leases whenever
they want to (when it's only poor people who own the 99 year leasehold), why
don't the various Eastern States Australian governements simply take these
tolled roads and tunnels back ?
Fortunately here in WA we do not have any tollways. AFAIK New Zealand does
not either, however I recall reading something while I's over there recently
that some changes to the motorway system that gives access to Auckland, seem
to be "softening up" the populace for the introduction of future privately
owned profit making tollways. Remember that whereas public owned roads are
there to provide a service at minimum cost possible, private enterprise
doesn't get involved in pay-for-use roads and tunnels to provide a service
at the lowest possible cost to users, it gets involved to make the highest
possible profits, from doing the least actual work or provision of service
Oh well that's the end of my rant for now, my fingers are running out of
puff.
cheerio
Patsy..... "So, is killing *Not* wrong anymore ?"
Trudy..... "We don't have to worry about Right and Wrong anymore, ZOOT
decides for us"
.....THE TRIBE ep 2:49
punch-up in your state parliament, which by any measure is un-forgivable.
You don't just inadvertantly walk around a huge wooden table.....the
equivalent of walking through 3 rooms distance in a domestic house, then
grab an opposition politician and start punching and choking him
We've seen full on riots amongst the politicians in Taiwan parliament
before.......easy to fix , simply a loud announcement over the loudspeaker
system..."anyone NOT sitting in their seats with their hands on their heads
within 15 seconds will get a lifetime ban from ever being in the
parliamentary chamber ever again, plus they'll lose their job and all of
their accrued pension/superannuation benefits " .....job done, no childish
ruckus in parliament ever again, whether it be NSW or Taiwan
However one point that one of those NSW pollies made later, did seem to have
some merit
He was referring to some section of the NSW Pacific highway, somewhere near
Kempsey or vicinity, remember where they had that horrific bus crash many
years ago and many people were killed, (oh hang on, that doesn't matter, as
they were only poor people, all the rich people and politicians were flying
instead)
Anyway the guy said that years on, they were still screaming out for
concrete divider between the lanes of opposing directional traffic, where
cars currently still whizz by at 100 kmh, just inches apart, separated by
all the safety of a painted white-line
He said that within days or weeks of opening, a concrete divider had been
placed in a particular Sydney street (with much slower moving traffic)
simply for the purpose of, almost forcing, motorists to use the new
"Cross-City" tunnel.
Note that this is a new privately owned tunnel, so all profits get plundered
from motorists and fly off to goodness only knows where, to line the pockets
of a few filthy rich.
So apparently NSW roads "can " provide concrete traffic control barriers
when a private company's profits are at risk, if people are allowed to make
a voluntery choice NOT to use their products or services.
Then just after seeing that in the tv news I happened to read in a newspaper
over the weekend that Macquarie, a huge multinational investment
conglomerate was going down in share prices of late. Note I'm not sure but
think maybe Macq own the new Cross City tunnel. The newspaper article was
more about how over extended they were becoming, having recently bid more
than a billion dollars more than the competition to buy a certain Chicago
(USA) toll-road franchise that gives them a 99 year lease. The newspaper
article pointed out the similarities with ENRON where a company got too big
too fast, (leaving behind it's core business) only to have it collapse in a
heap, a month after someone had the guts to stand up and say "But the
Emperor isn't wearing ANY clothes !"
Who do government's think they're fooling when the offer 99 years leases on
things to big corporations, that's as good as a sale. In 99 years time
we'll probably use "Stargates" or "Transporter" type technology to travel
around.
It's amazing though how a 99 year lease, when offered to "little people" can
simply by unilaterally evaded by the govt with just the single stroke of a
pen, when it wants to
Some 40 or so years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand there was a program to
assist low income families to buy into their first home. To save on the cost
of buying the land, (the land cost being a substantial component of the
initial price) the govt offered new housing blocks, in a cheap-arse area of
the city's extreme outer edge, on a 99 year lease, at "peppercorn" rental
(very cheap). The lease contract also gave the homebuyer (who owned the
actual house structure which they'd have built) the right to buy the land
whenever they wanted to, at the fixed price of 500 NZ Pounds currency. NZ
changed to metricated dollars and cents currency in 1967, and 500 pounds
became $1,000
Then one day sometime around 1988, the rip-off mongrels in the government,
showed themselves up to be the lying theiving scumbags that they are by
sending everyone letters indicating that their "locked in for 99 years"
annual peppercorn rent for the land was to skyrocket in price. The people
could still buy their land if they wanted, but the govt had shifted the
goalposts and unilaterally broken the earlier written agreements they'd
made, and upped the price payable for the land from P.500 ($1,000) to
$20,000
Yep, a true story. Some good friends of mine, a poor family, were put in
that exact situation.
The newspaper article about Macq mentioned that Melbourne's tollways only
exist by getting huge govt subsidies which the hotshot accountant types
disguise, but they're effectively gifts of public money to private profit
making companies owned by rich-pricks.
Well as governements have shown that they can cancel long leases whenever
they want to (when it's only poor people who own the 99 year leasehold), why
don't the various Eastern States Australian governements simply take these
tolled roads and tunnels back ?
Fortunately here in WA we do not have any tollways. AFAIK New Zealand does
not either, however I recall reading something while I's over there recently
that some changes to the motorway system that gives access to Auckland, seem
to be "softening up" the populace for the introduction of future privately
owned profit making tollways. Remember that whereas public owned roads are
there to provide a service at minimum cost possible, private enterprise
doesn't get involved in pay-for-use roads and tunnels to provide a service
at the lowest possible cost to users, it gets involved to make the highest
possible profits, from doing the least actual work or provision of service
Oh well that's the end of my rant for now, my fingers are running out of
puff.
cheerio
Patsy..... "So, is killing *Not* wrong anymore ?"
Trudy..... "We don't have to worry about Right and Wrong anymore, ZOOT
decides for us"
.....THE TRIBE ep 2:49
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