Building A Non-Sustainable Economy
Date Wed 23 May 2007
The Australian government is building an unsustainable economy.
As GST increasingly becomes the revenue base for government we are confronted with a serious dilemma…
Rampant consumerism is the primary cause of environmental degradation. Yet thanks to the GST the government now has a real vested interest in us continuing to consume and degrade the environment in the process.
Talk about conflict of interest!
Governments are telling us the economy is in great shape… Inflation is low… Interest rates are “low” and stable. They’re practically coaxing us to spend these days. Consumer sentiment is up.
Our government is actively promoting consumption because the more we spend the more they get. It is that simple. The Australian government is now hooked on GST revenue.
Successive Australian governments have been seduced by “global interests” and bought the lie of false money and rampant consumption. They’re now attempting to run a consumer economy just like they do in the good old US of A. (It’s not only their wars we copy).
They’re building an unsustainable economy where our spending props up the system. Never mind that we can’t afford it. Never mind that we’re living beyond our means to the tune of $550 Billion in foreign debt. Never mind that rampant consumerism is destroying our planet.
Buy, spend and consume - it’s good for the economy is their mantra. So where is their “real” response to climate change and environmental degradation? The two ideas are at odds here.
How can the government effectively combat environmental degradation when it is hooked on the revenue from us spending and consuming? It simply can’t.
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I agree wholeheartedly, but try and tell that to the yuppie set who are well into affluenza, and enthralled by the false prophecy of latter day scientists and our administrators, who seemingly hang off every word of these lorded scientists.
len