aquascoot wrote on Jun 10
th, 2014 at 7:08am:
Bam, I will address your post.
pansi and emma believe in cradle to grave nurturing.
This is best obtained from family and friends. certainly not from Canberra.
That is a matter of opinion. I do not agree.
Quote:Firstly, keating introduced super with the quite correct assertion that governments cannot provide for old age and people must take responsibility for themselves.
So you should be loudly denouncing the Abbott government for delaying the increase to compulsory superannuation, and the Howard government for not increasing the compulsory super by a single cent during 11 long and wasted years.
Quote:How much more so then, should people take responsibility for their employment when they are young fit and virile, if keating says government catn look after the old and fragile.
There is something that you simply do not get.
There are not enough jobs to go around.
I have made this point large and bold because it is important.
If every single advertised job was filled by the ranks of the unemployed, there would still be over half a million people without any work at all, and another million or more with insufficient work to meet their needs.
This insufficiency is a deliberate policy of Federal governments from both sides of politics, and the Reserve bank. They intentionally keep people out of work so as to reduce pressure on wages.
Because this is a deliberate government policy, it
is the responsibility of Government to provide for those people who must be left without jobs as a deliberate government policy.
Quote:Secondly, governments all over the world are increasingly under pressure and increasingly having to cut back services.
The rest of the world is largely irrelevant here. This lemming argument of yours doesn't fly. It is the Australian government that is of most relevance.
Quote:Global warming, aging populations, etc will see governments able to do less and less.
No, it is the unwarranted cutting of taxes at any cost that will do this, along with excessive tax concessions and exemptions.
Quote:The days of the public service soaking up the unemployed are well and truly over. even Gillard had an efficiency dividend to cut 12,000 jobs.
This is another rightie myth. I wouldn't want the government to cut teacher, nurse or police numbers. These are all public employees too.
Quote:the new jobs will be in the service sectors, small business and filling local niches. these will have to be self created.
There are a million possibilities. here's one I thought of this morning.
A coin operated dog wash.
These require capital. Someone with no job is very restricted in what they can do. How can you sit there and claim that someone can just conjure up money out of thin air if they cannot even afford to pay the car registration?
Quote:there are millions of opportunities. they just aren't going to come to people with emmas and pansies attitude and they wont come from canberra
Exaggeration and unfounded nonsense. I hope you enjoy your traffic congestion when governments aren't building more roads...
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