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          Pareto Principle        

The Pareto Principle, or 80-20 rule, is a rule-of-thumb which suggests that only 20% in a population is responsible for 80% of the result or the effect of the vital few over the trivial many. The distribution of wealth in a population clearly shows this principle, which the greedy work hard at improving in their favor. A democracy moderates this effect but success is determined by the wisdom of the many. Recent results in Tasmanian Local and State politics, unfortunately, shows that the votes of the many are all to easily manipulated by the few, regardless of the fact that those few are responsible for 80% of the poor health and infrastructure in the State! Perhaps it is easer to quote Abraham Lincoln with this bit of reality;

You can fool all of the people some of the time
You can fool some of the people all of the time
But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, 1864

The Huon Ratepayers Association recognizes that this reality is hard at work in Tasmania’s politics and aims to balance the equation by offering unbiased education aimed at empowering the willing to make choices based on insight and wisdom rather than manipulation. huonratepayers@yahoo.com.au

       20/80 in forestry?      

Respected sources, without vested interests, suggest that Tasmania’s forest industry proves itself to be controlled by a few (20%) who take much (80%) in return for little (20%) while compromising the environment. Not surprisingly, such reality is actively resisted by Huon Valley council management which, aided and abetted by vested interests in forestry and State government, work hard at keeping the community uninformed of the facts and pliable to the will of a few. Things change when people become informed and work pro-actively to show that not all can be fooled all of the time. Many links to fact and fiction can be found on the following sites but please remember to 'Control your opinions or they will control you’

www.councilconnect.tas.gov.au 

http://www.crikey.com.au/ 

http://www.oznetlaw.net/ 

http://www.scoop.co.nz/ 

http://www.sensis.com.au/ 

http://www.tasmailbag.com/ 

http://www.google.com/ 

http://www.tasmedia.org/ 

http://www.nrdc.org/ 

www.nowwethepeople.org 

www.planetfeedback.com 

          Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars        

Liberal Prime Minister John Howard gave $250 Million to the Tasmanian forest industry in 2005, over $10 from each man, woman and child in Australia, for this industry to revamp itself, get out of old-growth logging and become value-adding. Simple arithmetic quickly shows that Taxpayers are now funding the jobs that may be created if this industry does what it is now paid to do. Nothing much has been said about the increasingly dangerous chemical ‘fall-out’ that is building up in the Tasmanian environment. No mention was made that the now cancerous Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor disease cannot be a coincidence when it is linked with the introduction and wide spread use of the highly toxic 1080 poison used to ‘control’ browsing animals in forestry plantations. No-one dares to measure for dangerous chemicals coming out of the taps in forestry towns like Geeveston. And few recognize that plantation timbers continue to take huge amounts of water from an already scare resource. These are not dismissible Green issues any longer, all levels of Government are responsible when people begin to suffer and sue. Google if you’re interested.

 

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