How much can we donate?

 

During the last five days - not even a whole week, I've received four requests for donations in the mail.

On top of that, I've had several pop-ups wanting me to subscribe to various news outlets.

Two of the envelopes I received included pairs of childrens socks and a few cards with envelopes.

Quid pro Quo.  We'll give something to you if you give something to us.

The challenge is, as much as I would like to donate to every worthy cause, like most people, I'm not a billionaire with an unending stream of income.

I did send $100 to a group seeking to abolish Alzheimers and other cognitive diseases. 

Each year I donate to several organisations whose research will improve the lot of all humanity, not just people with this or that disease, but as I said, I'm not Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.

In fact, I'm a self-funded retiree with an annual income well below the average Australian income. No, I'm not crying poor. I'm debt free and manage to feed and clothe myself, but I don't have truck loads of money to send to every worthy cause whose letter arrives at my letterbox or whose email or SMS arrives on my mobile.

If I win 80 million in next weeks lottery, you can be sure I'll use 95% of the win to help others in need; veterans, homeless and many charities. Until then, I'm sorry, I can't help most of you who ask.

#Robinoz

Coming to Australia - A National Energy Disaster

 

Despite what is happening in Europe, the US and the UK, the Australian Government and Leftwing media refuse to acknowledge the reality of endeavouring to reach NetZero by any year, let alone a 43% reduction by 2030 which is the new fetish of the Labor Government.

The honest and genuine climate experts tell us there is no climate emergency, that any global warming that has occurred is so insignificant to make no difference, that C02 doesn't affect climate, and that renewables are not capable of providing sufficient energy for a civilised society to run safely and efficiently.

History also tells us that many more people die from hypothermia than hyperthermia. 

This article detailing the challenges being faced in Europe should be a harbinger of importance for the Australian Government, the not-so-independent Teals, and any fools who voted for them because they think we're all going to be dead in 12 years because of the climate.

Australia, we are told, emits less than 2% C02, so the 43% reduction of C02, a non harmful gas essential to all life, will be a total waste of time and destroy our economy as the climate alarmist morons tell us not to eat meat, to stop using fertiliser, coal, gas, and diesel and petrol vehicles.

It's a certain recipe for a national energy disaster.

#Robinoz 

Businesses that miss out

 

Businesses that offer a set range of subscription payment options miss out on small users' business.

Let me explain.

Say you are the secretary of a small club who issues several newsletters or notices annually but not regularly. They are compiled and sent ad hoc.

Would you sign up for the $15 per month option when you aren't going to use it for most months? Yes, I know, it's only $15 US which isn't a lot. But why pay when you aren't using the service?

Why would you pay $180 annually to publish two or three newsletters?

If I was running this show, I'd have an irregular use subscription payment ie, pay per use. Even if it was $15 it would be less expensive than paying for months during which you aren't publishing.

The alternative would be to start and stop your account, but it wouldn't take long for the business providing the service to tell you to get lost.

What do you think? Would you like to see some of these companies provided user pay on demand options?

#Robinoz

per ardua adastra

 

Are you part of the voiceless?

 "This voiceless group makes up nearly one-third of the people of Australia. Perhaps they educate their children in religious schools. Maybe they are unjabbed and remain Covid dissidents. I am guessing they value freedom and patriotism. Resent Woke corporatism. Feel that customer service no longer exists. Are ashamed of what is happening to our culture. Cheer on battlers and champion small businesses. Maybe unfurl an Aussie flag on Australia Day. Fear the coming digital surveillance state. Mourn what we have lost."

https://wentworthreport.com/2022/07/09/australias-true-voiceless/

I've had four COVID 19 innoculations, but align well with the author's other suggestions. 

I served my country in the Air Force (RAAF) during the Vietnam Era and worked for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) for 15 years before it was abolished.

ATSIC was the primary body that provided indigenous Australians with a bottom-up voice to the Australian Public Service agencies providing it with a cornucopia of generous benefits not available to any other of the 97% of Australians.

ATSIC built hundreds of houses, created work programs through its Community Development and Employment Program (CDEP). It provided a variety of infrastructure and other benefits and even provided ultra-low interest mortgages for anyone who met their guidelines. (indigenous and able to repay).

ATSIC had Regional Councils of elected representatives across Australia who, at considerable expense to the taxpaying public created Regional Plans that were to direct funding to projects that communities prioritised.

In the end, like many other well-intentioned government programs, ATSIC failed.

Now there are other agencies, do-gooders and funded bodies intended to serve the interests of the 3.5% of people who are indigenous or of indigenous descent.

We have 10 current part-indigenous representatives in our Parliament who can speak for the others. We don't need to mess with our Constitution to provide a voice for indigenous Australians.

The Australian electorate will never fall for guaranteeing places for indigenous people in Parliament who are appointed on race and not ability and popular appeal.

It will never happen.

#Robinoz 

PS: Race-based programs run by Australian Governments should be abolished and replaced with programs that provide help to all Australians based on genuine need