Monday, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:32
We have a situation in this country where governments are systematicaly abdicating their responsibilities to provide the basic
services we pay our taxes for.
They no longer understand that it is their fundamental responsibility to provide public
services at cost to the public, paid for by their taxes or for "at cost fees"...Or on some cases subsidised by other lucritave tax incomes like mining roylaties or taxes on big business.
Instead they believe these
services should be profitable, or even better not provide these
services at all and get the public sector to provide them on a fee for service basis.......at an inflated cost..witness what has happend to power and water of late.
Then we have the public sector who never content with their profits, strive to increase their per unit charges or the fees from each customer by upselling their service.
Combine this with ever " improving standards" required of bisiness owners and the accompanying fees, we find prices for all sorts of stuff skyrocketing.
This is right across the board..........many years ago, Johhny Howard said "We have made the decision that,
Australia will be a high wage economy"......this was not a commonly quoted statement and even less understood....it then follows that
Australia will be a high priced economy.
Thus we have neglected national parks, with ever increasing access and camping fees and commercial caravan parks with ever increasing fees for facilities that many simply do not use.
Less and less are the poor or the budjet concious catered for, welfare,
services and facilities for pensioners and the unemployed have been reduced to a bare minumum for survival....ya cant make money out of the poor.
And things like camping holidays are one of those things that the attitude is ..they can damn well pay for it....and there are plenty who can.
There was a time when you could not earn much, not spend much and do OK.....Unfortunately it no longer pays to be poor in this country.
So if you want to do well on a low income...and that includes traveling/camping you have to get very smart and not miss a trick.
Remember the well off types that can afford to pay the high fees, don't want to pay them either......they did not get all their money by being stupid or wasting money.
So if you are on a budjet you have them to compete with too.
So...if you want to do well on little money you have to get up before them and get smarter than them.......or similpy sell the camper and apply for public housing.
Fortunately there are quite a few "Private" camping grounds arround, with basic facilities ..like the 4wd parks....but many of them struggle to satisfy burocracy to stay in business.
Don't thnk that this ever incresing price for a suposedly ever increasing service is going to change any time soon.
And don't thing that wingieng will do much good either..
Sorry.......All you can do is get up early and get it where ya can.
Those free (as in free beer) road side camps do still exist, but knowing where they are is another thing all together.
After all if you are poor and camping for free...you must be some sort of vagrant.
Be thankfull that they dn't have you before the beak and send you to the work house.
cheers
AnswerID:
503505