The future is not playing a prominent role in Palmer United policy. When the annals of climate change are written by the super-evolved cockroaches that survive us, Clive Palmer is going to feature prominently as an insectian hero. From The Australian:
CLIVE Palmer has warned he will scupper the government’s direct action climate change plan in the Senate, saying the money would be better spent on pensioners.
The government is about to release a white paper detailing how it would implement the plan, which would offer subsidies to carbon-intensive companies to reduce their emissions.
The Coalition said it would cost $3.2 billion by 2018.
Mr Palmer, the leader of the Palmer United Party, said the scheme was a waste of money. “Direct action is a token gesture to addressing carbon issues — it is not a game-changer one bit,” he said yesterday.
“The money that is budgeted for direct action should be allocated for more important things like pensions. Supporting aged pensions is more important than implementing token campaigns.”
It is Clive that is permitting the Government to kill the carbon pricing scheme that was a “game changer”. Yet now he’ll kill the alternative policy that could work but will be more expensive. One could be forgiven for concluding that Clive Palmer is hostile to carbon mitigation, period. But not the grey gouge, that’s for sure!
Next up, Palmer United Senator-elect wants to draft the unemployed into the army:
The former Australian Army soldier who joins the upper house in July wants to see a greater utilisation of military national service.
“You can put them in for 12 months. I’m not saying they sign on for war,” she told ABC TV on Monday night.
Senator-elect Lambie made her debut appearance on the ABC program last night. Picture: Courtesy ABC/Q&A Source:Supplied
Such a stint would arm young people with valuable experience for the workforce, Ms Lambie said.
“It’s got to be better than being on the dole.”
Hmm, maybe not, would be my guess. And who does Ms Lambie think that any government would immediately send to war if it became necessary? The unemployed would make a nice easy whipping boy, thanks very much.
The four issues that exercise Australian youth most in terms of their economy and politics are: housing affordability, career prospects as baby-boomers hang on endlessly, becoming tax-slaves to support the grey gouge and the future of our climate. We already know Palmer United’s solution to the housing bubble is to put a rocket under it by making all mortgages tax-deductable, now the unemployed will be drafted into the army, the grey gouge will be boosted and climate change ignored.
The youth of Australia are already getting knifed by the major parties and somehow, bizarrely, we’ve elected a balance of power minor party that’s hell bent of lopping off limbs as fast as it can.
