Posted by alexandra_k on November 11, 2017, at 0:11:44
In reply to Re: politics, posted by alexandra_k on November 11, 2017, at 0:02:37
and it's just... stuff... shuffling stuff around.
money is just a proxy for the stuff...
see, it's just not the case that the money that was spent on flights for these people could have gone as a cash injection into whatever community project.
fact is, there were empty seats on this or that flight and that's how we fill up the flights so there are flights to fill up and how are you supposed to have a national airline that runs frequent flights without getting people to fill up the flights???
and the hotels... the nice hotels that the out of town advisors and so on stay in... those hotels would be partly empty, too.
what are you supposed to do to have people in the hotels?? who is supposed to be in the hotels? you can't put your seedy clientele drug dealers and prostitutes and people just out of prison and people who live out of town but have no drivers lisence but who need to report to their parole officer... in those hotels... those are nicer hotels... for the tourists.
the tourists on the cruise ships. which are not the boatloads of refugees that got turned out of Australia. they are tourists - like on the Love Boat. people like that. people who will spend thousands of dollars on a painting by a local artist and not people who will go into the church charity shops when they arrive and look to buy second hand clothing... not people who will rent or by a RV to go 'freedom camping' because they can't afford to park it in a trailer park...
and the alcohol... i know... it's a taser to the frontal lobes and i don't suppose i begrudge it. i mourn for the fact that so many (including myself at times) feel drawn to it because of how f*ck*ng miserable they are.
i just don't understand... why everything is so f*ck*ng miserable for so many. i just don't understand.
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