US-centric.

God save us from fools.

As we with feet planted firmly on solid ground realise, the University towers of powder puff dandies are in real life, irrelevant!

Why even contemplate or consider the credibility or not of their total B/S.

This parading section of clown alley, are totally ignorant of the historic need of inequality in society.

For example, without the poor downtrodden black North African gangs roaming the streets of Melbourne, bashing and plundering the weak and unprotected members of Melbourne society, what need would there be for a police force?

Dan

We have a parasitic economic system, where the privileged elite/born to rule, predate on all those at the lower end of the social-economic scale. And almost to a generic man argue that there needs to be a level of unmet need and poverty in order to suppress wages! Even as the energy bill often exceeds the wages bill!

And because in Oz energy is either foreign-owned or foreign-controlled? By tax-avoiding, price gouging, profit repatriating foreign investors? Whose aim with, the assistance of a control freak parliament, is to charge what the market will bear?

The US is a different kettle of fish. They have an economic model that is a dog eat dog extreme capitalism that is similarly parasitic?

And a large cohort of illegal migrant workers who can be paid slave labour wages, to perform backbreaking work and other mostly menial work? And because those who profit from this paradigm are either influential or in positions of power, there's little appetite for change?

If we would change any of this, we need to remove the corporate cowboys from all positions of power! These are the bully boy psychos who always claim the praise and kudos when their underlings win success and blame shift like it was going out of fashion whenever there's a balls-up!

And just a first step towards the adoption of cooperative capitalism/ equity and fairness1 Which is eminently doable under that model but never ever under current extreme capitalism, nor communism, which requires slaves to survive economically!

Quote inasmuch as ye do unto the least among thee, ye also do unto me. unquote.

The world of today is chock-full of Sunday morning Christians, who beat their chests and read selected passages from books that they believe supports the worship of mannon, and mostly where the inequity begins and is justified? TBC.
Alan B.

There's no dispute about the reality of poverty and unmet need! It exists because it is part of the economic paradigm! And will worsen as long as we allow the inmate to remain in control of the asylum! Were this not as obvious as the nose on your face we would have done things very differently!

The first being the widespread adoption of cooperative capitalism as opposed to dismantling as much of it as we could!

Then we need a single tax system for all that is based on genuine equity and fairness and removes any and all opportunities for minimisation or avoidance!

That system is a 15% flat tax set above a generous tax-free threshold, that none who earn income here can avoid!

And given that is the model all tax compliance spending which averages 7%, can be returned to the bottom line!

Then we can adopt MSR nuclear energy and energy prices as low as a cent PKWH! Or lower, but only where sanity finally prevails!

Similarly, all social amenity (water, gas etc) needs to be decoupled from this or that private operator, given it is treated as cash cows that have no limits placed on the appetite for unearnt profit!

Then we do need to accept and adopt cooperative capitalism that produces only winners and win-win outcomes all round and superior profits for the money men than they could ever have previously dreamed of, before they and the corporate cowboys, insanely shot the economy in the economic foot! Think, we were once the third-largest economy in the world and a debt-free creditor one at that!

It's the economy, stupid!
Alan B.

Hi Alan B, Australia is the most racist nation on the planet.

The Marxist Monoversity educated, ruling, leftist elites discriminate against ALL real Australians regardless of whether their ancestry is Aboriginal, English, Irish, Scottish, Torres Strait Islander or Welsh.

They have sold their souls to the CCP Chinese Communist Party because these "useful idiots" actually think Communism is a good idea & will be wonderful after Communist China has colonised Australia.

UCSR here we come, double + good.

China is rapidly becoming a real competitor as an economic and military superpower. With worldwide domination ambitions? But that's just the CCP/the Chairman, not the whole of China! The bulk of who would just live in comfortable peaceful cohabitation! Given they will be sacrificial pawns in any power play that results in hostile opposition by also nuclear armed naysaying opponents. China's strategy is simply to buy what they can with the assistance of Benedict Arnold, quislings and those driven by personal greed coupled to calloused indifference! With the latter including significant elected officialdom? That said, I don't believe there will ever be one worldwide power, but at least two or two blocks? Given the surety of MAD.

The key to peace in our time is energy all can afford and where we need to head! And anyway,the best economic and environmental outcome, in any event!

I watched in amazement at the sheer naivety of the usual rent-a-crowd, protesting against us being armed with modern weaponry!

The same fools would have been out there protesting war even as the Germans and ww11 rolled over Europe!?

Protests never have ever stopped power-hungry dictators who will just rub their filthy blood-soaked hands with glee at the sight of these and similar protests!

Better to die on your feet fighting for your freedom than down on your knees, begging for it! When Germany attacked Poland and we were thrust into a war few wanted, our troops exercised with broom handles1 SUCH WAS THE STATE OF UNPREPAREDNESS!

That very unpreparedness, led to the unnecessary slaughter of millions!

Better to talk softly, but carry a big stick! And given a big enough stick? The very real probability of never having to use it!
Alan B.