FASTER AUSTRALIAN PORN

To give credit where credit is due, the Australian Prime Minister is certainly does not lack confidence in his ability. Although the rest of us would call his over confidence in his limited abilities, unmitigated Hubris from a bad tempered, little control freak.

The latest utterance from Tin Tin is that Australia’s latest weapon against the Global Credit Crisis is Australia is to spend 47 Billion (that’s right Billion) dollars on a project to surpass the iconic nation building Snowy River Mountain Scheme.

This amazing project is?..... A 47 Billion dollar project to allow blindingly fast (although even IF completed still slower than Japan, Singapore and Korea) broad band access to every man, woman and child in Australia.

Is there any limit to the spendthrift stupidity of the Australian Labor Government? Are they really suggesting that being able to download porn 10 times quicker is really an economic driver to the magnitude of the Snowy River Scheme? For those who may harbour such thoughts, let us refer you to moribund economies of countries (again) such as Korea, Japan and Singapore who despite having broadband to burn are literally in economic melt down.

Ok, anyone with an ounce a practical business experience (excluding the owners of www.hootersareus and computer geeks) will tell you that IT is not a economic driver, it is a cost. Once you get beyond the fairly simplistic, "hey let’s send an email", 95% of the rest of the IT community is all froth and bubble.

Who can honestly say that since the advent of the IT monsters and daily increases in broad band speed has anyone seen a real, practical and measurable increase in company productivity (aka wealth). Does anyone really think the answer to world’s problems is more IT??? More Bandwidth??

Took 25 years to get over the Whitlam experiment, this is shaping up to be a much longer and more painful ride.

LIST OF FIVE THINGS YOU CAN THINK OF IN TWO MINUTES THAT WOULD BETTER TO SPEND 47 BILLION DOLLARS INSTEAD OF FAST LOADING PORN

1. Upgraded and Uniform Gauge Railway Lines across Australia
2. Water Catchment Areas for all Australian Cities in line with growing population
3. Upgraded Ports in all Capital Cities
4. Upgraded Coast Watch Facilities to protect Fishing Grounds
5. Water Transportation process (pipeline)from North to South
6. Another election ..(ok that’s siX, but probably the best stimulus for the oz economy.