Why are people such staunch Labor voters?

[curmu-curmu]

Particularly when every Labor governement in living history has amounted such huge debts whilst in office?

Or is it just that they blindly follow the old mantra, that 'Labor is for the working man?'

Now don't get me wrong - I don't particularly like Abbott, and I sure as h3ll didn't like Rudd or Gillard, but there's so much more to a political party than it's leader.

Feel free to discuss...

[myoclon1cjerk]

I did and I don't

[nevynreally]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
I did and I don't

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And there's the problem. You posted offensively, making light of family losses because you thought it was funny. Didn't laugh. Still not. Doubt anyone is.But you keep bucking yourself up to be the beacon for the the left, no one cares, but keep on doing it. 

[iapetus_rocks]

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@poddster wrote:

Why thy obsession with wealthy people?

If you compare yourself with others there will always be greater and lesser people than yourself, no doubt you have done just that for a long time, hence you current attitude to most things

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I don't have an obsession with wealthy people but I have a significant awareness that they are the people who are bent on becoming even more wealthy (because they are hungry ghosts) and cannot be satisfied with what they have.

They want more and they will even destroy a country, a landscape, a people, in order to acquire even more.

How much better could you live if you "earned" one billion dollars a year, than if you only earned 100 million dollars per year?

You'd need a very good imagination to answer that question.

[nevynreally]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

Why thy obsession with wealthy people?

If you compare yourself with others there will always be greater and lesser people than yourself, no doubt you have done just that for a long time, hence you current attitude to most things

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I don't have an obsession with wealthy people but I have a significant awareness that they are the people who are bent on becoming even more wealthy (because they are hungry ghosts) and cannot be satisfied with what they have.

They want more and they will even destroy a country, a landscape, a people, in order to acquire even more.

How much better could you live if you "earned" one billion dollars a year, than if you only earned 100 million dollars per year?

You'd need a very good imagination to answer that question.

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Why? don't you want more? Who would you step on? I am really not getting this whole envy thing. It wasn't you, move on already.

[iapetus_rocks]

You really don't understand, do you?

I am not envious. I am resentful and angry that those people who are so greedy to want more than they could ever use, by virtue of their greed, cause so much misery and poverty for  those who they exploit.

[myoclon1cjerk]

The fact is,Australia's resources belong to all Australians and a resources tax should be in place.Norway has a sovereign fund worth over $800 billion due mainly to a resources tax on the oil industry.The population of that country is only 5 million give or take.Where's our sovereign fund?

[iapetus_rocks]

I think it's in one of Gina's hip pockets.

[iapetus_rocks]

Spoken like a true socialist...

You say that like it's a bad thing?

[j*oono]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

You really don't understand, do you?

I am not envious. I am resentful and angry that those people who are so greedy to want more than they could ever use, by virtue of their greed, cause so much misery and poverty for  those who they exploit.

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Obviously you are talking about the mining industry that brings in foreign workers on 457 visas.  It is pretty disgusting.  No regard for even their family, let alone their country.

[myoclon1cjerk]

It is a bad thing,lapetus.A throwback from the Menzies era.Just shows you much we've moved on.