Most people that know me know my views towards tax cuts. When the Government offers tax cuts I think of two things: unnecessary and inflation.

Here is an interesting view I found over at Jesaurai:

Modern governments don’t pool money for the good of all they just run the business of politics.

Imagine this:

You live in Australia, and you have $100 to spare, you say to your government; which is a democratically elected representative of you, who’s purpose is to lead, maintain and increase the communities wellbeing.

“Take my $100 dollars and pool it with other peoples money and please use it to try and fix some of the problems I and my friends, family and fellow citizens have. Here’s a list of the things that are important to me, some of them are very important as they threaten my survival, and that of my kin.

We don’t have any water, the dams are at 30%, the farmers say they can’t plant, and it never seems to rain. Can you do something?

The climates changing, not sure if this will be good or bad, but everyone that seems to know about these things says its bad and its our fault. Can you do something to slow it, or stop it?

The train to work never runs on time, and is over crowded, and often derails itself, it is a horrible experience everyday for an hour as it was, now its beyond a joke.

Our jobs keep going overseas, and I’m tired of re-training, is it possible to just get some security?

There are beggars on my street, more than ever before, can we give them homes (not just rooms) and food, and self worth.

There are loony people on he train stations, are they sick? or just on ice? I don’t know but they are scary and they threaten people. Can we help them?

I want to work less. Not more !”

The Government takes you $100 and gives $20 to a fund for universities, and other education, $30 for a fund for government employee’s superannuation, $1 for enviromental stuff.

Then the government puts out his hand and says you can have this back ($49). I don’t need this! Whoops sorry I need $15 back I need to buy us a gun, those bloody neighbours keep misbehaving. And you get $34 back… but.

This is essentially what the Australian government did tonight in its pre election budget, and no-one seems to find fault with it.

Its not about them and their budget surplus, its about us, we want them to spend the money to help us, not just give it back.

Subscript: figures are indicative only. And they are giving a subsidy for solar panel of $8000 which is really good.

MySpace is one of the first appliances of the Web 2.0 movement. MySpace is an online, social community that allows people to interact with one-another, host a personal profile and add friends to your profile. (This is a basic overview of MySpace as it’s so much more.)

Web 2.0 is the label for the second generation of the internet. Characteristics of Web 2.0 include social networking, user-generated content and open-source (user-editable) software. MySpace is mostly user-driven.

Being an active user of MySpace I can vouch for how addictive and fun it is. To me, the site doesn’t have a hell of a lot you can do, but I have found myself dabbling in it for hours on end. Of the things there are to do there is messaging, commenting and adding friends, searching bands, books and other entertainment, creating social groups, contributing to forums –all types of fun stuff.

Networking with existing friends is one of the main drawcards of MySpace. At one stage I had a group of around 20 “offline” friends added to my personal profile and we would message one-another, comment each others blogs and photos and so on. Now let me share an experience I’ve had on MySpace that I think has direct reverence to a theory known as Power of Context.

You’ll have to wait for part two though.