The ABC interview was all about trying to shift the focus of public debate away from pursuing Craig Thomson to denouncing that “wrecker” Tony Abbott who was putting Mr Thomson at risk.
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Why did the imperative of a nation living within its means become unfashionable and even unsellable? Welcome to the murky world of dodgy economics and its practitioners.
We are on the cusp of enormous new entitlement spending programs on dental and disability schemes without any substantial offsetting spending cuts.
The carbon tax represents the first time that any Australian government has deliberately set out to hamstring Australian industries. Leaving Zimbabwe aside, perhaps it is a world’s first for any government.
Just think, the higher the rate of income tax you make the rich pay, the more the bastards unfairly gain from concessions.
Start with three hundred and fifty Toyota workers in Melbourne being sacked. Bill Shorten was reported to have said that the workers could tell their children that they did not lose their jobs because they had done anything wrong but because of the high Australian dollar.
No engineered pitting of one group of Americans against another based on wealth (or on race or on gender) is too great a price to pay, apparently, to re-elect a president who can’t run on his miserable record and has no more hope and change to offer for the future.
How much should you pay to support your neighbours’ four children - who they couldn’t afford to have - to be minded, schooled, clothed, fed, and entertained?
People in the middle have no entitlement to the goods of those at the top. Their job is to try to get to the top not to be subsidised. The entitled have to be severely pruned in number if those among us genuinely needing help are to be adequately helped.
President Obama, as the first black president, was rightly lauded as having the potential of bringing Americans of different racial origins closer together. It hasn’t quite worked out like that.
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