My pet hate at the moment is how Australia is being run. Normally we see a Government run along party lines, and they strategically say and do and spend with the aim of getting re-elected at the next election. This is bad enough to swallow at the best of times. Now we have the stupid situation that the House of Reps is controlled by a Green and a handful of independants, and the Senate is controlled by the Greens. So we actually have a Labor minority Government basically self destructing by doing whatever the greens/independants want to STAY in power, as soon as they say no to the minorities they'll lose power. So we see the new pre-committment spend BS idea for Pokies - at the wishes of Independant Andrew Wilkie. This is a blatant I scratch your back, you scratch mine situation. And we have the Carbon Tax, this stinks of a Greens agenda item. There are certainly others. I'm not saying any of these bits of legislation are good, bad or otherwise. Some of it may well be good like the Melbourne to Brisbane high speed rail link study, this also appears to be a Greens idea. Just the whole con job of what appears to be a Goverment held to ransom making compromises that it normally shouldn't or wouldn't. An Opposition that may or may not be a viable alternative riding an unwarranted wave of popularity and will certainly win the next election. And propped up or watered down legislation that could possibly bring the country to its knees in a time where the USA and parts of Europe are falling quickly into a hole (Wall Street dropped over 4% last night, the ASX could meltdown today). All this ill timed legislation could well see us spiral into recession, house prices drop, super funds shrink and jobs lost to Australia by them heading overseas. All of which could be avoided by making conservative and rational decisions at this period in time. However we have the few radicals that will be gone next election, so they have to make their mark while they can.
My rant anyway, and the way I see it. Might be wrong!