truly disgusting politicians

[Ken Gargett]

this woman has always been dumber than soup but that she thinks charging a whale-watching trip (for $3500+) to the taxpayer is not only acceptable but that we would support it shows how truly despicable and dimwitted she is.

and she took her daughter and thinks we'd sympathise with that. she is a moron. i really do want to fund some braindead vile piece of filth's daughter's day off to watch whales. pity they weren't sharks and they fed the pair to them. it would be the best use of a politician in decades.

if you get the politicians we deserve, then we are pondscum with diptheria.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/greens-senator-sarah-hansonyoung-says-whalewatching-trip-with-daughter-was-doing-my-job/news-story/d1954017987d720dfdb20279436503e2

[BellevilleMXZ]

Yep, they are everywhere unfortunately, ours are no better.....no wonder the cigars taxes are so high down there

[Ken Gargett]

did the googly thing. she apparently also charged us $2700 a while back so she could go to the gay/lesbian mardi gras. i could not care if she went to everyone such event and danced naked in the streets (although good taste...), but i do not want to pay for her to do it.

i believe, but can't recall the exact details so apols if i have this incorrect, that she was on a senate committee re immigration or security or something (we would get more sense from a beetroot) and wanted the cast of the fictional "sea patrol" to appear to answer questions. apparently she missed the "fictional" part.

this was the closest i can find.

 

[M82]

18 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

this woman has always been dumber than soup but that she thinks charging a whale-watching trip (for $3500+) to the taxpayer is not only acceptable but that we would support it shows how truly despicable and dimwitted she is.

and she took her daughter and thinks we'd sympathise with that. she is a moron. i really do want to fund some braindead vile piece of filth's daughter's day off to watch whales. pity they weren't sharks and they fed the pair to them. it would be the best use of a politician in decades.

if you get the politicians we deserve, then we are pondscum with diptheria.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/greens-senator-sarah-hansonyoung-says-whalewatching-trip-with-daughter-was-doing-my-job/news-story/d1954017987d720dfdb20279436503e2

Come on Ken, stop beating around the bush and tell us how you really feel !  

[Ken Gargett]

6 minutes ago, M82 said:

Come on Ken, stop beating around the bush and tell us how you really feel !  

unfortunately, this being a family site, i can't.

 

[OZCUBAN]

God help us if they ever come to power ?

[JR Kipling]

$ 3500 is nothing. The U.S. Pentagon can't account for trillions of dollars.


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[semifan1]

28 minutes ago, JR Kipling said:

$ 3500 is nothing. The U.S. Pentagon can't account for trillions of dollars.


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It cost to be the Boss!!!

[havanaclub]

Sounds like our liberal dimwits in Ontario using taxpayer dollars to buy 54K worth of the expensive Canada Goose winter jackets. Our hopeless, brainless premier defends it as well.
https://www.google.ca/amp/globalnews.ca/news/3430111/ontario-premier-kathleen-wynne-defends-54k-purchase-of-canada-goose-jackets/amp/


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[shlomo]

That's a lot of anger over $3500...if that's the worst of it, stop bitching and thank your luck.

Could be worse. Much, much, much, much worse.

[MIKA27]

2 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

did the googly thing. she apparently also charged us $2700 a while back so she could go to the gay/lesbian mardi gras. i could not care if she went to everyone such event and danced naked in the streets (although good taste...), but i do not want to pay for her to do it.

i believe, but can't recall the exact details so apols if i have this incorrect, that she was on a senate committee re immigration or security or something (we would get more sense from a beetroot) and wanted the cast of the fictional "sea patrol" to appear to answer questions. apparently she missed the "fictional" part.

this was the closest i can find.

 

She clearly has no clue or idea does she.... makes one wonder how she got there in the first place.

I Googled disgusting politician Sarah Hanson Young and I found a picture of a facebook account you must have created @Ken Gargett

[Auspaul]

Honestly don't know who to vote for at the next elections 2 major parties seem to be more concerned about their parties than looking after voters

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, shlomo said:

That's a lot of anger over $3500...if that's the worst of it, stop bitching and thank your luck.

Could be worst. Much, much, much, much worst.

nothing like the worst.

it is simply that it is symptomatic of these people. doesn't matter if it is $35 mill or $3.50. it is the arrogance and stupidity of these people.

[shlomo]

Glad u didn't attack me over a spelling mistake...lol. don't want to be on ur bad side!

[Ken Gargett]

5 minutes ago, shlomo said:

Glad u didn't attack me over a spelling mistake...lol. don't want to be on ur bad side!

 

5 minutes ago, shlomo said:

Glad u didn't attack me over a spelling mistake...lol. don't want to be on ur bad side!

apologies but i have missed the point about spelling mistakes.

my point is that it is still corruption whether it is a few dollars or millions. or do we accept a limit now? does anyone think that if a politician is happy to rip off a few thousand that would not rip off far more?

[Fuzz]

57 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

 

apologies but i have missed the point about spelling mistakes.

my point is that it is still corruption whether it is a few dollars or millions. or do we accept a limit now? does anyone think that if a politician is happy to rip off a few thousand that would not rip off far more?

Is the rip off limit per invoice, financial year or term of office?

Quite frankly, you'd think pollies would get the hint that the public has had a gutful of their dipping into the coffers. Adds insult to injury, considering they all just got a pay rise.

[TheBaron]

What makes it worse is SHY is one of the most morally pious, ethical-lecturing pollies we've ever had.

A complete hypocrite. A complete fraud. And a complete waste of our money.

[JohnS]

4 minutes ago, TheBaron said:

What makes it worse is SHY is one of the most morally pious, ethical-lecturing pollies we've ever had.

A complete hypocrite. A complete fraud. And a complete waste of our money.

Yes, you could say that about the whole Australian Greens Party!

[gweilgi]

2 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

nothing like the worst.

it is simply that it is symptomatic of these people. doesn't matter if it is $35 mill or $3.50. it is the arrogance and stupidity of these people.

Here is a poser for you:  is it better (OK, less bad) or worse to have politicians who are venal, corrupt, arrogant and stupid on such a petty and pitifully small scale?

This is the question that posed itself to me a few years ago when the expenses scandal broke in the UK.  British members of parliament were exposed as having rorted the system mercilessly ... for the most part claiming back money for such high-value expenses as rubber plugs for the bath tub or Kitkat bars.  What flabbergasted me then -- as it bewilders me with your esteemed senator for South Australia -- is that these are people at the levers of power at the national level, in positions of access to the movers and shakers framing government policy, in possession of commercial information and the ability to influence decisions worth literally billions of pounds/dollars ... so what do they do?  They gyp the taxpayer and sell themselves for a few thousand dollars.  How small-minded and unimaginative is that???  It's like a computer hacker gaining access to the banking system and deciding to pay his utility bill instead of ripping off the bank for millions.  It's the bank robber who walks into the local branch with a sawn-off to demand a roll of coins.  In a screwy sort of way, I am vastly disappointed.  I want my politicians to have vision, a willingness to think big.  Instead, we get representatives with the mental horizon of a concussed gerbil.  Would I like a politician to rip off the nation for tens of millions?  Hell, no.  But at least it would not be so damned *embarrassing*.

Does that make sense?

[99call]

Ha,  this is nothing compared to the UK tories. Things they have seen fit to charge the public for

1, A replacement bath plug!

2, The digging of an ornamental well.  (and then insisting the UK public was wasteful with water, during hose pipe bans. and that we should all get are own wells!!????)

3, Pay on demand pornographic movies

My all time favorite is watching this sub human scumbag John Redwood 'singing' the Welsh national anthem after trying to take a local seat. His demeanor is "why am I here with these stupid taffies, why am I not in a back in London snorting cocaine of young boys bottoms" 

 

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, gweilgi said:

Here is a poser for you:  is it better (OK, less bad) or worse to have politicians who are venal, corrupt, arrogant and stupid on such a petty and pitifully small scale?

This is the question that posed itself to me a few years ago when the expenses scandal broke in the UK.  British members of parliament were exposed as having rorted the system mercilessly ... for the most part claiming back money for such high-value expenses as rubber plugs for the bath tub or Kitkat bars.  What flabbergasted me then -- as it bewilders me with your esteemed senator for South Australia -- is that these are people at the levers of power at the national level, in positions of access to the movers and shakers framing government policy, in possession of commercial information and the ability to influence decisions worth literally billions of pounds/dollars ... so what do they do?  They gyp the taxpayer and sell themselves for a few thousand dollars.  How small-minded and unimaginative is that???  It's like a computer hacker gaining access to the banking system and deciding to pay his utility bill instead of ripping off the bank for millions.  It's the bank robber who walks into the local branch with a sawn-off to demand a roll of coins.  In a screwy sort of way, I am vastly disappointed.  I want my politicians to have vision, a willingness to think big.  Instead, we get representatives with the mental horizon of a concussed gerbil.  Would I like a politician to rip off the nation for tens of millions?  Hell, no.  But at least it would not be so damned *embarrassing*.

Does that make sense?

to me, corrupt is corrupt. if they will pinch small things or rort the system in small ways then inevitably they will 'graduate'.

the problem is that these idiots think that the public loves them and that there is no issue with them funding their lives in this way. no matter how many times people tell them otherwise.

they get in because of our inane system of electing the senate. we have morons in the major parties but usually they expect their candidates to at least be able to drool and chew gum at the same time (although there are many may examples of this failing). the smaller parties allow gibbering imbeciles to emerge. so we have have the appalling trump-wannabee, pauline hanson (who really did say that she was not a racist, she'd couldn't be because she had chinese food for lunch) who was recently heard on tape working out how to defraud her own members (and that hardly seems to have put them off) but it means an overflow so we have people like malcolm roberts (so stupid he could fill all 30 places here - 26 and 28 are gold - http://www.viralnova.com/stupid-people/) as our elected officials. spare me.

malcolm got an entire 70 votes for himself an that means he now represents us and makes decisions for us. malcolm does not just believe that climate change does not exist (i think that lunacy but i know a lot agree), he believes and has often stated that any figures showing climate change are actually concocted by a cabal of the banking families around the world (which he can't name) and NASA. yes, NASA. he has declared that they have deliberately "corrupted and manipulated" the figures. his chief advisor was arrested on three counts of assault and intimidation, i think - same advisor who when a member of the alp, was kicked out after he was found guilty of vote-rigging.

and for the kicker, his hero is some nutter who was notoriously anti-semetic and whose most famous work was entitled, and i am not making this up, "adolf hitler: an appreciation". the one nation party actually put this dribbler up for election. hard to think of a fate too terrible for them.

and he makes decisions on current and future australia. we are so screwed.

[Akela3rd]

Ha,  this is nothing compared to the UK tories. Things they have seen fit to charge the public for

1, A replacement bath plug!

2, The digging of an ornamental well.  (and then insisting the UK public was wasteful with water, during hose pipe bans. and that we should all get are own wells!!????)

3, Pay on demand pornographic movies

My all time favorite is watching this sub human scumbag John Redwood 'singing' the Welsh national anthem after trying to take a local seat. His demeanor is "why am I here with these stupid taffies, why am I not in a back in London snorting cocaine of young boys bottoms" 

 

You forgot the moat cleaning, duck house and various second homes some of which contained mistresses/second families. Yeah, and Redwood is a ****.


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[99call]

I think it's important that we always remind ourselves that politicians are politicians, because they need no discernible knowledge, skill, or character to get their job

They are not the leaders or standard setters of our society, they are the absolute dregs. It's like putting a suit on a chimp. They exist in a world where a lack of tact, dignity, morals, self awareness, pride, humour etc etc are all considered positive attributes in charting their political lives. 

On the other side. If you're a decent person like Jeremy Corbyn (admittedly a little naive) you are vilified as a public threat, and someone wholly unsuited to politics. Ultimately any corrupt working environment  (see Frank Serpico) is repulsed and viciously suspicious on anyone displaying a shred of backbone, moral fibre or honesty. 

 

[Winchester21]

7 hours ago, JR Kipling said:

$ 3500 is nothing. The U.S. Pentagon can't account for trillions of dollars.


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My nearest city has a 400k "accounting error" that can't be accounted for and was quickly forgotten. 3500=pocket change

[Ken Gargett]

7 minutes ago, Winchester21 said:

My nearest city has a 400k "accounting error" that can't be accounted for and was quickly forgotten. 3500=pocket change

so do we have a limit?

corruption is okay if the amount is under?????