Most Australian freeway exit ramps have a sign directed at drivers who enter the exit ramp by mistake into the oncoming high speed traffic – “Wrong way – go back”. It’s not a bad warning. It is written in very large white text on a red background. Hard to miss, I suspect, even for the myopic drivers among us who presumably make this mistake from time to time.
I’d like to take those “Wrong way – go back” signs and use them in other parts of Australian life. In particular, the community needs to be warned that the suffocating policies of Governments, mostly of the left-of-centre type, to get involved in virtually every aspect of our lives right down to the most mundane, represents the wrong way. I don’t claim credit for the originality of the saying but it rings true – the left (or liberals in the US sense) have switched their efforts – they are no longer attempting to nationalise industries but instead are full steam ahead at nationalising the family.
Australian Actuary 