Thought id post this for the windsurfers from Lybia on my facebook recently
Dont care what race but the videos of dismembered bodies posted recently etc are far from the wave sailing and videos that i post ;-( what the **** is wrong with people.
I think all governments are coming to the end of their use by date, in Oz we must look like dairy cows to them because they are finding more and more ways to milk every last cent out of us.......time for a new system....any one for a revolution?
(forgot about pm33) I'm sure that alot of people living in some of these Arab countries pay no or very little tax( because of their oil)
Its been speculated that the rising costs of living has been the straw that broke the camels back for the Tunisian, Egytian and now Libyan regimes.
My personal experience is income tax has come down a fair bit since the early 1990s but the cost of living has gone up a lot. The CPI doesn't show the real increase in the cost of living because otherwise the government would be out of pocket having to pay more for benefits, pensions and wages. Some things like computers and consumer goods are counted in the CPI while other things most notably housing is excluded. Bit silly when its unlikely you will own a 42 inch plasma screen unless you have a house of some sort.
So workers, families and pensioners are being ripped off. When you get your 3% cpi pay increase it means you are falling behind.
On the one hand the income tax reductions are welcomed but on the other rising costs are not. So if the cost of living continues to rise and more working people sink into debt and become bankrupt a revolution will happen here too.
Its such a slow way for citizens to damage their own cities.
They should just send Ricky Ponting there to smash it up for them.
just a reference to what i was going on about before !
he has gone from pictures like this...
to posting stuff like this 
My parents who are in now their 80's both still do voluntary work for Vinnie's, and they see this scenario day in day out when delivering assistance to a number of so call "disadvantaged" family's. My Dad wont judge them, just hands over what he needs to, grins and moves on to the next group needing assistance
