Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey’s greatest ally is Bill Shorten.
The budget pain that the Liberals are imposing on the sick, poor and elderly is more often than not also ALP policy.
The desperate victims hear Labor vow to fight for them, and want to believe it, but the truth is: Labor has also supported a Medicare co-payment; Labor first raised the pension age, to 67, but at the time Wayne Swan’s tongue slipped and he said 71; and Labor started the cruel cuts to welfare, such as the income support for single-parent families, with the excuse of achieving the holy grail of a budget surplus.
Thus, tainting the hope that they might be saved from the deadly cuts, is the nagging cynicism in the population that if the ALP were in government, the situation would be no better.
That cynicism is well-founded, because since Hawke and Keating in 1983, the once great AustralianLabor Party has been captive to the same banking interests that founded and control the Liberal Party.
In fact, as the Liberals underwent an internal revolution in the 1980s—when they were infiltrated and taken over by agents of the fascist Mont Pelerin Society who eliminated all traditional Liberal MPs who supported industry protection, and replaced them with hard-right zealots of free trade and deregulation, such as Peter Costello and the super-rich Julian Beale, Bill Shorten’s first father-in-law - it was the ALP who implemented the bankers’ demands.
John Howard admits in his memoirs Lazarus Rising that the Liberals made sure they supported every key Hawke-Keating reform that the bankers demanded—the 1983 float of the dollar, the 1984 deregulation of banking, and the 1986 and 1991 tariff cuts.
In 2011, Julia Gillard called this “the post-1983 consensus on economic reform”; put another way, the post-1983 political farce.
Today, the starkest proof that Liberal and Labor are serving the same banking interests, is their joint refusal to act against the gravest threat facing the Australian economy—the Too Big To Fail banks.
Instead of implementing the clearly sensible policy of a Glass-Steagall separation of their retail banking from their speculative investment banking, which would protect the Australian people from the inevitable meltdown of their speculative investments in the property bubble and derivatives, first Labor ran up a massive debt propping the banks up, and now the Liberals are slashing living standards to keep them propped up.
@am*3 wrote:LOL that is the CEC's answer to everything.. control by the banks
below is the headline from the New Citizen Feb/March 2014...
better start digging a nuclear shelter.
World Financial Collapse Looms, British Empire Prepares Nuclear War
Icy, I've cleaned my glasses, twice.
That is the hardest bit of typing to read seen since my old manual typewriter days. The days when you have typed a mistaken 3 space word and tried to correct it with a 4 space word.
Is it an old piece "doctored" for the benefit of the current day.
This is not commentary on the actual wording of the document. My mind wandered too much. I couldn't concentrate.
DEB
@lloydslights wrote:Icy, I've cleaned my glasses, twice.
That is the hardest bit of typing to read seen since my old manual typewriter days. The days when you have typed a mistaken 3 space word and tried to correct it with a 4 space word.
Is it an old piece "doctored" for the benefit of the current day.
This is not commentary on the actual wording of the document. My mind wandered too much. I couldn't concentrate.
DEB
You could always click through and read the whole article, Deb. The print is bigger.
I always said that they all are tarred with the same brush.
Erica 😞
@lloydslights wrote:Icy, I've cleaned my glasses, twice.
That is the hardest bit of typing to read seen since my old manual typewriter days. The days when you have typed a mistaken 3 space word and tried to correct it with a 4 space word.
Is it an old piece "doctored" for the benefit of the current day.
This is not commentary on the actual wording of the document. My mind wandered too much. I couldn't concentrate.
DEB
It's extremely difficult to read. Neo's posts are the same when he copies and pastes stuff.
Personally I would highlight the whole text and then select a font and font size and change it on here before posting. eg:
Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey’s greatest ally is Bill Shorten.
The budget pain that the Liberals are imposing on the sick, poor and elderly is more often than not also ALP policy.
The desperate victims hear Labor vow to fight for them, and want to believe it, but the truth is: Labor has also supported a Medicare co-payment; Labor first raised the pension age, to 67, but at the time Wayne Swan’s tongue slipped and he said 71; and Labor started the cruel cuts to welfare, such as the income support for single-parent families, with the excuse of achieving the holy grail of a budget surplus.
Thus, tainting the hope that they might be saved from the deadly cuts, is the nagging cynicism in the population that if the ALP were in government, the situation would be no better.
That cynicism is well-founded, because since Hawke and Keating in 1983, the once great AustralianLabor Party has been captive to the same banking interests that founded and control the Liberal Party.
