I now seem to be in error, with these river beautification plans that suddenly appear, without any local consultation or local sensibility being used.

These consultants seem to be nothing more than dreamers and the majority of our councillors can't see through them.

No thought about keeping all ages active, when both lawn tennis and croquet lawns just disappear off the map - gone.

I'm an old man whose only active sport is croquet. It gets me out and active.

Am I now meant to sit in a chair at home, or maybe walk around the block?

I hope that isn't what our city councillors want.

Neville Pope, Horsham

THE three farmers agitating for improvement to the Blue Ribbon Road at Kalkee (Wimmera Mail-Times, July 15) are unfortunately flogging a dead horse - the dead horse being the unworkable Keynes economic doctrine.

What about the Henty Highway? If it had been used as the detour from the Western Highway crash - not suggesting that any detour in this area would be better or worse - there would have been B-doubles bouncing off the subsidences left right and centre.

I was one of the truck owner drivers involved in the building of the Henty from Dooen North to Kelallac in 1950-51. The others were Ian Ellis, Norm Widdison, Col Mott together with a couple of old stagers owned by Bob Whiteside driven by employees who were there only if they and the drivers could be started in the mornings.

It was expected the life expectancy was 30 years - it is now almost 40 years past its "use-by" date and has been only patched and re-patched since.

The problem arises from Keynes' system published as the book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936.

His whole thesis was based on the premise that full employment would be the norm. If unemployment rose "Prime the pump" said Keynes as the Labor Government did to get us through the GFC but Keynes left no instructions on how to repay the debt on which the pump priming was based.

The premise that full employment will be the norm is no longer achievable.

The system can only function on constantly increasing debt with a bit of "controlled inflation", as Keynes expression, to camouflage the cracks.

Ron Fischer, Horsham

I HAVE heard that a standard gauge V-Locity train was tested between Melbourne and Adelaide, with a view towards operating the route.

The current Overland train only runs twice a week and if V-Line take over the Overland service, they would run a six days a week train in each direction. That would be most welcome, but my hope is, that the disused railway station in Murtoa is reopened for passenger train use.

I feel sure that residents of Horsham would welcome a modern regular train service between Melbourne and Adelaide, stopping in Horsham and Murtoa.

John Coyle, Ipswich, Queensland

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