SirVile John Howard wrote:
> Don H wrote:
>> # Any government is obliged, if it is honest, to fulfil its election
>> promises,
>
> I knew there was a good reason why I ignore you completely.
>
Yes, he reminds you of your broken "Non-Core" promises, and lies,
which is why you tory tossers are thrashing about hating the ALP
delivering on IT's promises to the Aussie voters!
suck it up, LOSERS! B^D
and, if this involves tax cuts, and spending, then so be it - even
>> if more/less than what the Coalition promised.
>> That there is a pruning of commonwealth expenditure, in other directions,
>> while it might be needed due to previous govt's extravagance, can also smack
>> of a forelock-tugging labour reaction to the boss, or of a Dr.Death doing
>> what comes naturally. However, better to get the nasty bits over well prior
>> to the next election.
>> No social democratic party is going to overthrow capitalism, but it will
>> try to humanise it.
>> Nor can any govt, elected by geographic democracy, do much more than try
>> to appeal to all of its heterogeneous constituents.
>> Capitalist economics tells us there is an Upper Class, a Middle Class,
>> and a Working Class, and, while the term Upper Class is rarely mentioned,
>> the other two are played off against each other, to good effect.
>> No aspirational family likes to think of itself as other than Middle
>> Class, 'cos who wants to sink into the nether regions, and live on the
>> Western side of Melbourne, for example - unless it becomes trendy to do so.
>> As Geographic Democracy has electorates which vote predominately either
>> Liberal or Labor (in the suburbs), it is the "marginal" electorates (those
>> aspirationalists) who are pandered to by both sides of politics - as they
>> can decide elections.
>> Who are the Workers? Most of us. After all, if you have no alternative
>> but to derive the majority of your income from "sale of your labour power",
>> then you are a damn worker, like it or not - and this includes "independent"
>> contractors.
>> Yeah, the whole set-up is rather farcical, and only an upgrade to
>> Industrial Democracy will really make much difference.
>> As to Inflation, that current bogeyman of economics, you control it by
>> controlling Prices, one way or another - and cuts to govt spending, while
>> assuaging the Top-Enders, are no guarantee Inflation won't still continue an
>> upward trend.
>> If Wages are controlled, then so, too, should be Prices - or at least
>> require justification, in both cases.
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