Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 15
th, 2022 at 7:13pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Oct 15
th, 2022 at 3:44pm:
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 15
th, 2022 at 2:33pm:
Now, now - you're getting snarky.. it won't help you futile case of ranting about CDEP over and over... it's long dead and buried and I have no obligation to say anything about it.
Like everyone else - you do not possess the right to make the rules for discussion with me.... I alone will determine what parameters I will permit in discussion of issues relevant to my own country.
You do have an obligation to admit its success in reducing crime and alcoholism in communities that participated in the scheme.
But apart from that: this is the reason for your uselessness when it comes to closing the gap:
"and NOBODY is responsible for those ways but the individual".
Sheer ideological ignorance of the human condition; we are all products of our environment.
And Oz black dysfunction, a disgrace in the eyes of the world and a torment at home, MUST be solved.
Failure in not an option.
[interestingly, you can see high-paid Ley's worthless greed, demanding tax cuts for herself while letting the "leaners" rot in poverty, but you can't see your own "freedom" ideology blinding you to the causes of black disadvantage].
The program is dead and buried.
Correct, but it needs to be reinstated imo; btw you don't have to support the CDEP (indeed CIS market ideologues destroyed it...they obviously didn't support it),
you only need to acknowledge it reduced crime and alcoholism in the communities which participated in it (which is fact, not opinion). Quote: The concern is here and now and what can be done - considering that all has been tried to no avail.
Correct - except for your blind, ignorant (I assume not deliberately lying) statement that "all has been tried to no avail".
Some success WAS achieved (eg with the CDEP) before the Reagan/Thatcher neoliberal "small government" ideology began ravaging the disadvantaged who were previously cared for by Keynesian 'welfare' state' policies (1946 - 1980s).
Quote:It is not 'my' 'uselessness when it comes to closing the gaps' - I have no say in the matter, and there are countless bodies actually doing that which are having as little success as I am.
Yes, those "countless bodies" are working within the current entrenched neoliberal orthodoxy, which demands individuals compete in the private market....or forced to rely on poverty level 'welfare' (the dole), a social and individual disaster.
Quote:Either the Blacks are children and must be controlled in everything, or they are sovereign individuals who have the right to make their own decisions. Which way do you want it?
Individual sovereignty is an evil myth, we must all submit to rule of law, to avoid anarchy. But indeed many blacks are like children who need support and direction, to become responsible functioning adults.
Quote:As before - I come from a background perhaps in many ways worse than many of your sainted Blacks - I made my own choices and decisions and NONE of those led to gaps that are not equally endured by many others.
They are not "sainted": I despise the filth and the stench and abuse toward the public on buses and public places in central and northern Oz.
And the sickening spectacle of chronic mind- and body-destroying alcoholism in public parks, which the community tolerates because it thinks it cannot "afford" to dry these people out and engage them in useful employment.
Quote:If their dysfunction must be solved - what are your SOLID solutions that the countless bodies working on their behalf cannot find? Give Us Your Plan!
I just did, above...again (I will avoid wasting my time abusing you, you are too far gone in your ideological "freedom" blindness).
Quote:The causes of Black disadvantage are far more complex than what you say -
What I say? I have already outlined some of it:
1. An ancient defunct culture
trying/having to catch up with the modern world,
since the hunter-gatherer economy is dead;
2. 'culture warriors' trying to make aspects of the defunct culture practicable in the modern world,
3. vicious orthodox economists demanding work programs lead to employment in the dog eat dog competitive neoliberal job market
4. preference of government to set up "safety nets" to sweep the problem under the carpet, in the mistaken belief they are saving money.
So the torment continues for the dysfunctional blacks themselves, and for the commumities and the nation which must bear witness to the ongoing nightmare.
Quote:and most of it is in their court.
Care to identify which is and which is not "in their court"? i