You're getting a bit homoerotic there, Sprint.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Dec 1^st, 2009 at 2:03pm:

More like this, they reckon....

I agree Sprint, it is supremely frustrating that we have no political party we can really identify with as one that truly reflects the ideals, and aspirations, of the average aussie.
The average bloke is either a small business tradie, or a payg taxpayer, with a couple of cars, a mortgage, and a wife and two kids to support.

He wants to see good universal health cover, a fair social security system, where those unable to work, and those whose working life is over, are looked after properly.
He wants good schools, and a safe community for his family to live in.

He wants a tax system that is fair, and without punitive rates for those who wish to work harder, and longer, to then be over taxed because of it.

He wants to see his society protected, and to stop seeing money wasted on politically correct nonsense, like the indigenous lesbian dwarf tapdancing academy scholarship fund, but he does instead want real social issues that address equality and fairness supported.

He wants to see special interest groups stop being allowed to demand and receive special treatment because they happen to be able to organise lobby groups that seek disproportional allowances be made for them.

He doesn't care if you are atheist, hindu, muslim, jew, or christian, so long as you are foremost, aussie, and are willing to keep your spiritual hopes, and your secular responsibilities and desires separate.

He recognises that big business needs to be allowed an environment free enough to prosper, but still bound by legal and ethical constraints, that governments need to enforce.

He wants to see the environment protected, so his kids, and grandkids, and even the grandkid's, grandkids, can inherit a world that is in as good a shape as we can pass on to them.

He just wants a fair go.

Any ideas which party could best offer that?
lol, me neither.

If we could get the best of each party, and just pick what we like from each, we could probably manage it.
So I may vote for the LABORnGREENnDEMOCRATnNATIONALnLIBERAL Party.
It is a pity they cannot work together a little better, we could all be so much better off for it.

mozzaok wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2009 at 10:48am:



he, he, he, always he...  What does the little lady want?

And the little lady's GLBTQ brother/sister? and their Indian cousin-by-marriage? and the Sri Lankan refugees? And the palestinian/iranian/iraqi/lebanese/australian refugees with legitimate ummah aspirations (non-violent, of course)?

Who's looking after them, MATE?!? Have you asked them what they want, mate??

You talk like it was your country, mate!

Au contraire.

it is high time for some greater polarity, sharper contrast.


howard was keating-lite, rudd howard-lite. can't have any more lightweight than Rudd. Turnbull tried it, look what happened.
What was he difefrence between Rudd and Turnbull?
Rudd and Hockey?

The mood for pussies is over. Look at Obama -  a lightwight. He is so inlusive, he doesn't know how to be an American President. To him everything is community outreach -bowing to the King of Araby, the Emperor of Japan - it's all community organising.

NZ had enough of Clarke. Blair is gone, Brown soon to follow. Canada, with a conservative government in the Howard mould,  is now the most odius nation for the likes of Monbiot. That must be an encouraging sign.


All of a suddent the Left is the old, fuddy-duddy, stuck in the past side of politics.

The true right wing basis is :

"The customer is always right"

Anyone who has ever ran a small business knows this. This is THE basis of every business.
It's the pure mathematical ecomonic fact.

Abbott knows this basic fact.

ETS is a crock of poo, everyone knows that.
kyoto, grocery watch, fuel watch, ruddbank, stimulus packages, educaton revolution revolution are all failed crocks of poo.

Everyone knows it.
"The customers always right"

Quote:


Let's take a cae in point of the customer always being right.

Do you think that the customer agrees that the banks should be able to skimp on interest rate cuts when the reserve bank lowers them, and then raise them further than the official reserve bank interest rate rise?

I'm sure that the customer disagrees with this, and rightfully so.
But what can they (we) do about it?
Can we demand to be paid in cash as should be our natural right?
Who would ever get a job these days if they demanded to be paid in cash?

The simplistic buyer seller (market will dictate terms) approach is all well and good in fantasy land, but how about the reality that people are greedy and they will use any means available to exploit their fellow man?
There is nothing surer besides death and taxes that if you leave yourself open to exploitation, then you will be exploited.

Forget trust and fairness, you have to fight every step of the way for a fair deal.
We've become such the apathetic herd of cattle that we wouldn't even know how to fight for a fair deal anymore. So I suppose we get what we deserve. Yay banks.

And what, pray tell, will Abbott do to instill a fairer system? Nothing. He'll make it even worse.
It's all about taking rights away, not conserving freedoms (which was once a worthwhile cause don't you think Soren?).

Forget the "basis" of any political party. That exists only in the imagination.
The real objective is to gain control without causing a revolution, because the wise know that revolutions  cause a huge stumbling block to the ultimate objective of total control.
Everybody wants to rule the world. That's the real basis of any party.

That's my rant