i voted for the pig-headed libs 

either be a independant or a lib this time I feel.

that's a very good idea

and how do you think they are going to "reinterpret" the Henry Tax Review down the track so they can bring death duties back in again.
That means, folks, that if you ever inherit your parents' house or anything like that (hardly makes you wealthy anyway), the government will then send you a bill after your parents die for a huge percentage of the value of the house or whatever assets your parents worked all their lives and paid taxes for. If you haven't got the money, you have to sell your house (bad luck if you're living in it) and pay the death duties. Then you can go and live in a cardboard box somewhere because you haven't got enough left to buy another roof over your head.
That's the labor way of doing things - they call it redistribution of wealth and social justice.
B*sht. It's just a way of getting money off people who can't do anything about it.

Plato, I believe, wrote that the fate of all democracies is class warfare. Too right! How does it happen - attitudes like the cynicism and jealousy of the politics of the left. The extreme version is communism - they simply take everything off you.
There is not much to understand about it, with respect - the left does not like people with money, they do not like the profit motive, they think people who operate in that system are shady. The source of public funding is taxation - nothing to do with other people having to make profits, which is somehow dirty - that's how they think, and that's how a lot of people in Australia think. It has quite a leftist perception in it's culture which it has inherited from times past.

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Not any more you cant, if you did that at the last federal election your vote was considered invalid.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 25^th, 2010 at 2:22am:


shampain socialist wrote on Jun 25^th, 2010 at 2:32am:


Hey SS & SC!

Firstly, I just wanted to apologise if I get you mixed up from time to time - since neither of you have an avatar and your writing styles and attitudes are so similar that you could be clones...

As for the above 2 posts...this lefty notes that you both seem to be afflicted with the right wing disability of black/white syndrome - which manifests in narrow and absolute thinking, assuming and projecting...

Notably, you assume that all lefties 'hate' people who are 'rich' - when most lefties would really prefer less polarisation of income, wealth, opportunity and power...

As for the class warfare argument, our current under-regulated system is creating such high levels of polarisation, that we now face the escalation of the GFC...

Recessions inevitably come about when the SHAREHOLDER share of production increases exponentially relative to the WAGES share...

Problem is that workers are also consumers...and, in the short-term, the rich can lend money to their customers so that they can consume - but at some point the majority of the population, the worker-consumers, become so heavily-indebted to the uber rich that they cannot lay and the whole system collapses...

Ironically, it was the Conservatives in the UK who have implemented a suggestion I've been making for some time - to set a limit of remuneration so that the ratio of the highest income earner to the lowest cannot exceed 20:1.

They've done that for the public service in the UK - but there is no valid reason why this principle cannot be rolled out across the private sector too - given that the value of the personal efforts of anybody cannot be readily justified at more than 20 of anyone else...

You lefties should remind yourself regularly to stop yourselves from getting too arrogant - which you do - that there is a very large proportion of the Australian public that don't want you. You are there by luck not by unanimous popularity. You are tolerated by many people while you are in government, but not welcomed. Think about it next time you assume everyone should think like you.

English born Gillard will do nothing to dispel that image with her extreme left background.
I hope she gets as good as she has given to Rudd. I would like to see that day. Spit the dummy and back to England for sure.