stryder wrote on Apr 15
th, 2011 at 9:53pm:
THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA DOESNT WANT THE CARBON TAX, PERIOD, KAPULT, FINITO.....
The so called precise and accurate polls of morgan, galaxy, the ones that the laborites love and use in there posts, or whatever you fancy continue to confirm alongside NSW state labors decimation in that NSW state election with historic proportions that Labor is NOT WANTED because it wants to continue to impose a tax that has the potential to DAMAGE entire industries in an attempt to change an entire economy to fulfill this Green left agarian vision on there TERMS.
The polls have being consistent in measuring the fact that most australians oppose this Carbon tax for some time, SO WHY THE HELL FIGHT IT, FIGHT THE MAJORITY ????
I mean these Unions woke up now and are now tiptoeing to the majority position on this tax NO B****Y CARBON TAX, I guess the heckling from the steel workers made them see with open eyes that there is a MAJORITY out there who HATE THIS TAX, no matter how much these idiots from Canberra who think they can take us on guilt trips by reciting vague temperature numbers and other vague and hazy scientific data on global temperatures in there speeches reeking with SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS
So I ask you when will Labor get the message, WE DONT WANT AND NEED THIS *&%#** TAX
Very good equation to your opening comment styder , in the age.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/a-nation-of-fickle-fools-20110412-1dcj...The Australian public keeps changing its mind on climate change. No wonder our leaders don't know where to step. Most Australians say they don't want a carbon tax. So what do they want? After all, over the past year, Australians have transformed themselves from a citizenry worried about global warming, and asking for something to be done, into an outraged mob indignant to discover that their noble desire to protect the future means they must pay a bit more for petrol and power.
How easily the public's penny-pinching is exploited by a handful of ranting shock jocks. "The carbon tax is a terrible injustice, foisted on the battlers by out-of-touch elites," they fulminate, before turning off their spittle-flecked microphones to return to their harbour-side penthouses.
What is so dispiriting about the scare campaign is that the deployment of infantile and transparently manipulative phrases such as "a great big new tax" can work so well on the Australian public.
What do Australians want? The answer is clear. We want symbols of action but not action itself. We want to hear words that make us feel good about ourselves but none that ask us to make any sacrifice. We care about climate change, but we hate the idea of having to do anything about it.
Give us leaders, says the great Australian public, as long as they do not ask us to follow. So the public gets what it wants - hollow leaders who will go through the motions, massaging their sense of entitlement to make them feel secure.
In the face of an overwhelming threat to all we treasure, to our very future, we repudiate action and instead retreat into wishful thinking.
Yet hope without action is just a vapour. We have outsourced our fate to a phantom - maybe a bit of technological magic will save us, or a god will take pity on us. Or something, we don't know what, will just happen.