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   'RECYCLED WATER'   
   Recycled water is actually very clean water and fine for drinking. If you   
   watch docos on it, you will find it is very clean water. But it just has a   
   stigma associated with it. However, if they recycled the water in plants on   
   the edges of cities, and then    
   pumped the water upstream quite a bit to pour it out into the rivers of our   
   catchments, and let the water 'Naturalize', it would lose its entire stigma.   
   The result would be enough clean, safe and 'Natural' water for us too drink,   
   which has lost its    
   stigmatization. A very fussy procedure, in reality, but its what people want   
   anyway.   
      
      
      
   'GOVERNMENT BUSINESS ENTERPRISES - A PROPOSAL'   
   PROPOSAL   
   I propose the formation of Government run businesses (GBEs), especially in   
   fields in which they can make money. They are a business enterprise   
   established by the Federal and State Governments, the workforce of which is   
   made up of centrelink payment    
   recipients. I propose that, to be eligible to receive a centrelink allowance   
   AND if one is capable of working to receive an income, then legislation be   
   introduced making it mandatory that such recipients be involved in (apart from   
   other legislated    
   activities) the work of a GBE. GBEs could be made flexible to the requirements   
   of the Private and Public Sectors in relation to each sectors unemployment   
   rate. Theoretically, when the Private and Public sector Employment rate   
   increases, GBEs could    
   decrease staff numbers in a reciprocal response. Correspondingly, when   
   employment decreases, GBEs could increase staff numbers in a likewise   
   reciprocal response. Theoretically, through careful management, there is no   
   real need for any citizen who desires    
   to work and further their quality of life not to be able to gain some sort of   
   working experience on a permanent basis (if such is what each individual   
   desires), through the interaction between Private and Public Sector employment   
   and GBE employment. It    
   should be the goal of society to have every work-capable individual employed.   
   UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY.   
   The advantage of GBEs is that they can provide permanent employment for the   
   less 1success-oriented2 and 1skill-focused2 individuals (of which society will   
   always have a certain percentage), to also be able to know that the broader   
   society also desires    
   them to be able to realize their dreams and aspirations. The prevailing   
   philosophy amongst western economics is that each individual works to maximize   
   their opportunities and advance themselves in the economic situation. The   
   reality is that, while this    
   has a degree of truth in it, many citizens are less ambitious in terms of   
   career objectives and working to realize them, than more driven citizens. An   
   intelligent and humane economic policy will take this socio-economic,   
   anthropological reality into    
   account, and shape policy accordingly. In essence we should ask, through   
   knowledge of social history, what are the strengths and weaknesses of society   
   as a whole. What are the capabilities of ALL our citizens. Government in   
   Australia should, as all    
   governments ideally should, be focuses on the standard of living for not just   
   one special interest group or groups but aimed at satisfying the material   
   objectives of ALL citizens great and small alike. The term 'Value Each   
   Citizen' should be the core of    
   the heart of every individual, group and political party involved in the   
   business of administering and governing society. Because of this, it is   
   important to assist, wherever and whenever possible, those less motivated   
   citizens to likewise realize their    
   dreams and aspirations.   
   A GBE which is carefully managed to meet the employment realities of a nation   
   can provide a framework in which:   
   * Security....   
   * A sense of belonging   
   * A sense of contribution   
   * The realization that over the long-term, their economic situation will   
   gradually improve (through the proposed incrementally increasing wage system)   
   * Actual contribution to the economy,   
   are realized.   
   Realistically, when unemployment is high, full-time permanent employment   
   within the Private and Public sector systems cannot be realized for every   
   citizen. However, even when unemployment is high, we still maintain a system   
   of social payments (   
   traditionally called social security, welfare or centrelink allowances) to   
   those most greatly disaffected by the economic situation this is part of the   
   compassion of Australian Society, and an important and vital moral and ethical   
   precept. As we can    
   maintain such systems, common sense dictates that while they are in place, it   
   would be best to maximize their usefulness. Putting it simply, if we are   
   providing allowances for citizens who are unemployed which is part of our   
   obligations, based on    
   physical needs it is in societies best interest to utilize this potential   
   factor of production - labour - in the furtherance of the national economic   
   situation. The work for the dole scheme is a current example of this in   
   action. However, more can and    
   should be done. GBEs have the potential to not only produce an income for   
   those individuals disaffected by the economic situation during times of high   
   private and public sector unemployment 6 but to actually contribute to the   
   economic situation through    
   government run business initiatives in areas which will be beneficial to   
   Australia as a whole.   
   PRACTICAL APPLICATION   
   For example, the textiles industry in Australia is almost extinct due to   
   superpower china. GBEs in this area for which highly-skilled staff are not   
   always required (which is often what the unemployed sector of society is   
   replete with) could, primarily    
   due to the simple fact that wage costs already being met by our social   
   security obligations actually be able to compete with the imported products.   
   Australia has many natural resources. Through various GBEs, many of these   
   resources could be exploited at    
   a low cost to enable Australia to be which is the ideal self-sufficient in   
   more areas. These resources could be utilized by, for example, the textiles   
   industry, to provide cheap raw material to produce low-cost goods. Naturally   
   this economic reality is    
   realized when private and public sector unemployment is high. When this is   
   low, GBE output decreases. However, as private and public sector unemployment   
   is in fact low at this time, the economic objective of full employment is   
   still being met   
   UNDERCLASS   
      
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