MARK M ALDRIDGE - Tony Abbott and the ETS?            a.userlink { color: #000000; } a.userlink:visited { color: #25120d; } a.userlink:hover { color: #25120d; } font[size="1"] { font-size:10px; } font[size="2"] { font-size:13px; } font[size="3"] { font-size:16px; } font[size="4"] { font-size:18px; } font[size="5"] { font-size:24px; } font[size="6"] { font-size:32px; } font[size="7"] { font-size:48px; } .GuestBookMessage { font-family: Times New Roman; color: #25120d; font-size: 13px; } .GuestBookMessageRow { font-family: Times New Roman; color: #25120d; font-size: 12px; } .GuestBookHeader { font-family: Times New Roman; color: #25120d; font-size: 12px; }                                                                        Congratulations to Tony Abbott, Australians should decide our future and in an informed manner! Global Warming or the Weather is changing, here lays the argument, some blame Co2 others blame mother nature, I lean towards mother nature as the main contributor, but these are not the important issues, its about our future. So lets put ETS in context, you have a windfall of say $500,000 and wish to invest it in your children’s future, the salesman of the investment scheme “trust me its your children’s future, hurray up and give me the money” he wants you invest with him your children’s future, your reply “Let my wife and I have a look over this” he says how can you wait, you must act now. You hold him off for a bit and investigate his company, hhmmmm there are some warning signs and reports that his company is not 100% safe, there are leaked emails showing there is a cover up, he could be leading you down the path of rack and ruin. Do you sign up or reconsider? The ETS is based on taxing a natural occurring gas in the hopes of changing the weather, the arguments from both supporters and deniers are many and of a complex nature. The effects of such a Tax will be huge, and may affect the viability of our long-term future and even our retirement funds and investments; the truth is we are being kept in the dark. We are being given the options of blindly follow me, or make ones decision an informed one, in fact the informed one seems to be of the agenda, yet Tony Abbott wishes to allow an informed debate, and the Labor Party line is “we must act now” as if a few months of open and honest debate would cause irreversible damage? But the same could be said for blindly following. The People must have the final say, and it must be made by an informed electorate, so I say Listen to Tony, become informed and consider the ramifications, either option is said to affect our long term future and there for must not be rushed. I for one have always considered that those that do not want scrutiny of their Ideals may just have something to hide.  Mark M AldridgeIndependent Candidate for the Legislative CouncilP O Box 1073 Virginia S.A. 512008 82847482 / 0403379500aldridgemark@bigpond.com                         Website provided by Vistaprint