shampain socialist wrote on Aug 13
th, 2010 at 11:22am:
Australia will eventually have just as low wages as the places where we import these things from. China has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, and it is funds like that, that are buying large tracts of Australia to secure their food and resource supplies.
Australians are on the road to becoming low paid wage slaves in their own country, and no side of politics defends the people against this trend, on the contrary they want it to happen. The labor people just want to be bureaucrats and stuff the rest.
We definitely need an alternative to the bureaucratic capitalists who enter politics for self serving reasons, that's for sure.
Have they genuinely lost touch with reality, and their nations grave predicament, or do they consciously set out to stuff us?
At what point does a politician or influential Australian say to themselves, "Ok, I had planned to make a real difference when I entered politics, or carved my path but greed got the better of me , so I might just get in for my chop while I can."
Such a defeatist mentality.*waves Australian flag, with an extra 52 stars).
I really cant stand our "Blow you Jack I can swim culture" we are such a plutocracy.
Latham started out with the right idea, and now even he's ended up in bed with that conga line of suck-holes he claims to have loathed so much.
Is this the part where I lose heart, shake my head and give up on my nations capacity to get itself back on track?
No, I'm an eternal optimist,(possibly to a fault) and will never give up hope.
Perhaps I'm just delusional...either way, I cant bare the thought of submitting to what will be the death of our lucky country.