Carbon Tax The Great Distraction

The Carbon Tax - the great distraction
Call me a conspiratorialist (is that a word) but it seems to be there are some questions that need to be answered (not the meaning of life)- if you were a government that was having trouble managing the economy, education, health, the size of the public service (in fact when you think about it everything) would you tackle something that every country in the world is virtually ignoring Global warming. Lets introduce a Carbon Tax for the good of the planet – don’t worry that all the primary issues within our country are simply not being attended to effectively – don’t worry that we have 40,000 people with nowhere to sleep, thousands of Australians who can’t get adequate and timely hospital care, an education system that rewards mediocrity and spends most of its time preparing for Naplan etc etc, lets just have a crack at Global warming – let’s just show those yanks and Chinese a thing or 2

Nope i think i have got it wrong it’s got naff all to do with aiming too high its got everything to do with if we spend our time and everyone else’s talking about one Holy Grail or another no one will notice we are not doing anything else (standard government practice 101) No one will notice we give away 4 boat people and get 4000 back – don’t the Indonesians love us now - and while we are at we will throw a couple of hundred Billion dollars at a communication network that will be obsolete by the time it gets to WA (and by the way why is it given governments - of all persuasions - lack of credibility when it comes to estimating what something is going to cost - by say 200% - that no one questions them as to the legitimacy of the original quote or holds them accountable to it?

Thats what governments do - they concentrate on talking about things that cant be achieved (or shouldn't be) - about what great crusaders they are for the common man or the good of the planet or for the plight of the down trodden (not ours mind you just everyone else on the planet) rather than actually getting the business of government right and helping to ensure those that need help/assistance get it