on โ23-02-2014 01:37 PM
on โ24-02-2014 09:05 AM
@bluecat*dancing wrote:They love making the poor poorer.
How else do the entitled rich get richer if not by talking from the less fortunate, they see it as a right, after all everyone is equal,
they are all born into wealthy families, enjoy great health, get private school education, a start in daddy's business or one of his mates, yes everyone has the same opportunity, the rich tell us so.
on โ24-02-2014 09:31 AM
This is claimed to be Tony, it could explain a few things about why he lies so much, memory loss from getting hit in the head too many times.
on โ25-02-2014 02:37 PM
LNP love for Murdoch
a couple of weeks old this article but clearly shows the looooooove........
Letโs be very clear: when treasurer Joe Hockey announced โthe end of the age of entitlementโ amidst the threatened closure of the SPC cannery in Shepparton, the withdrawal of Toyota from Australian manufacturing and the planned shutdown of Holden in South Australia, he was not talking about the expectations of corporate Australia. He was declaring an end only to a working-class expectation of basic job security.
Meanwhile, corporate entitlement is flourishing under the Coalition โ and there are few better examples of it than Rupert Murdochโs News Corporation.
This week saw the jaw-dropping revelation, reported in the Australian Financial Review, that the single largest factor in the deterioration of the federal budget announced in December was โa cash payout of almost $900m to Rupert Murdochโs News Corporationโ by the Australian Tax Office. News Corpโs windfall was the result of years of creative paper transactions which allowed them to bill the Australian taxpayer for a โlossโ recorded against a high Australian dollar. This is the same News Corporation that cited the former federal Labor governmentโs โspending profligacyโ as the reason to โkick this mob outโ with stupendous lack of self-awareness during the election campaign.
It will not surprise you to learn that the culture of entitlement at News Corp runs far deeper than merely costing the Australian taxpayer $882m โ and how the Coalition are presently facilitating Murdochโs habit of business practice somewhat contradicts Hockeyโs blustering declamations against entitlement.
Consider, if you will, the Coalitionโs very public concession to Murdoch press claims against the ABC. News Corpโs consistent campaign against the government broadcaster on the (disproven) grounds of its โbiasโ has been running for months, with the likes of Herald-Sun columnist Andrew Bolt describing โthe ABCโs capture by the Left to its suffocating sizeโ. Similar sentiments have been echoed in statements like โthe ABC seemed to delight in broadcasting allegations by a traitorโ โ although this statement did not come from Bolt. It came from the Tony Abbott, in January, amidst much discussion of governmental investigations and reviews into the operational future of the ABC.
The prime minister and Australiaโs richest ex-pat are, of course, entitled to share views โ Murdoch may control the majority of Australiaโs press, but it is a free country, after all. What is more concerning is the Murdoch empireโs implied entitlement to the Australia Network, a broadcasting contract awarded by the former Gillard government to the ABC in preference over his own Sky News Service which also tendered for it.
on โ25-02-2014 02:41 PM
@the_hawk* wrote:This is claimed to be Tony, it could explain a few things about why he lies so much, memory loss from getting hit in the head too many times.
Yes it could explain a lot and it certainly looks like he couldn't box very well either.