I understand completely this article from a Shaun Crow of the ANU, who brings up these issues. Naming Hewson, Howard, and Hockey now all in the same boat. Hewson lost the un-losable election against Keating, Howard lost his gov and his seat, over trying to change Australia's economic system to favour the rich. Australians have been rejecting bullshit like the Abbott gov's present attacks on our being egalitarian for decades now.
These nitwits just seem to keep trying and trying even when we say no at the polls over and over. We don't want that, they don't get that. We've never wanted that, they don't get that. The Lieberals are no longer "conservatives", they're radical ideologues who will clobber the poor and workers with said ideology. Apparently this ideology agrees that catholic christians should punish the poor and reward the rich. Like I said, fuckin out there man......
The political left is waking up to the fact that it might be now on the side of tradition. You can hear it in the language of its leaders.
Ged Kearney, head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, described the budget as: "… nothing short of a savage assault on the Australian way of life and famous egalitarianism."
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has variously accused the budget of being “unfair” and “radical”.
It’s hard to reconcile the term “conservative” with these attempts to overturn and remodel traditional institutions. But when it comes to economic policy, preservation has never really been the goal.
As former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put it back in 1981: "Economics are the method: the object is to change the soul." more
No comments:
Post a Comment