/aus/ - Australia★

The driver licensing scam is another way of controlling people and herding them towards dependence on the welfare state.

I cant tell you how many people (myself included) have lost their God given right to drive on our roads through the demerit points system - and for most of us , it means a loss of jobs especially if the job is something like truck driving or travelling sales rep etc.

What happens when we lose our job due to this licensing system? Some have no choice but to get on welfare or take on a job along with a pay cut and for some its a slippery slope…financial ruin or unable to work in the industry (like transport).

Its so fucked up how they getvaway with this shit.

Its not a privilige to travel on these roads we pay for. Its our lawful right to do so.

We need to start handing in our licenses and number plates back to these so called road authorities and it makes so much sense to do so - just look at the back of the license and it says its 'issued by..' and 'if found please return to' .. To where? Back to them because they own the it..not us.

>>194147 (OP)

>And moreover, why is the government so fucking retarded that they decide to exacerbate the problem by putting a billion roadworks on some of the most congested roads in the country instead of building additional roads

Because building more roads, counterintuitively, makes traffic worse [1]

>or train lines

Probably a money thing, more train lines would be good

>and then have the road workers do fuck all for 5 out of the 7 days of every bloody week?

Yeah fuck the council workers they need to get their act together

>It's bad enough that the fucking coppers are like hawks that will fine you for any bullshit reason to get their quotas but it's like all the authorities from the police to the local council to the construction management are all in on it.

In on what? Covering their bills? Nobody benifits from shit traffic

That being said, I agree Australian traffic is a problem. I hope the right people make the right decisions to fix it.

Sources:

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w15376