Reserve is a word with many meanings.
What is the Reserve Bank of Australia? Does it have a ‘reserve’? Reserve means:
- To keep back or set aside especially for future use, or contingency, withhold;
- Set aside for oneself, retain;
- Or to obtain or secure by advance arrangement (taxation?);
- To delay delivery of (a judgement). How the wealth is used.
The great benefit of the English language is how the arrangement of usage, can change the meanings implied. There have been news reports that Australia’s debt is nearly one trillion dollars.
A Reserve Bank guiding government on spending habits, that has resulted in a huge debit, that is paid back by the taxpayers. Seems to me that all that debt money could be spent in better ways. Instead of endless tax increases to pay for our leaders’ ongoing bad management and obsession with power over others, by funding war machines for over 100 years. Have we and are we being given misinformation, about their allegiance to the people’s wellbeing? A wealthy country, that has no savings – only debt. The leaders distribute the perks; people get their intent with laws of taxation control, using technology.
A reserve tank on a motorbike is very useful, when the tank of petrol is empty it can be turned on. Otherwise you’d have to walk to get more fuel.
Robert Podhajsky, Ocean Shores
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