"Rick Samuel" wrote in message
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Question: Is your goverment able to stand on it's own feet, or is it
special intersts groups who do the talking, as in the US?





Without doubt, governments on both sides of the political spectrum here are
vulnerable to the pressures of special interest groups. They all want to buy
votes, regardless of where they come from. Fortunately, the right tends to
be less affected by the loony left and bleeding hearts, of which there are a
significant number in this country. Unfortunately, we currently have a
socialist Federal government. Ain't democracy wonderful?
I have some personal experience of politics; - my grandfather was a federal
politician and government minister for many years. (He described politics as
the most dishonest profession in the world,) and at one stage I was myself
directly involved in politics. I found the lies, duplicity and self-serving
manipulation that formed a large part of the process (on both sides,) to be
something that I was too idealistic to deal with effectively.

Now I'm just an curmudgeonly old armchair critic. : )

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