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Tea Parties are for Boston Harbour, not Port Jackson : Comments

By Chris Lewis, published 11/3/2011

Sorry Janet Albrechtsen, Australia is light years from emulating a US-style Tea Party.

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A person some time ago, remarked that the people in the slums of the US, had five or six looks fitted to their doors to prevent unauthorised entry, but for the rest of the conduct, the very low top tax (35%) is the main reason. In contrast with the thoughts, when there is a low top tax, there are high and very high incomes up to and over $100 million in the US, but on the other hand, there are millions out of work and struggling to get enough cash to live, let alone to provide the essentials for a family. Along those lines is happening to our workers, the factories - what there are of them, are providing two and three days work a week, so they are not unemployed, but it is not enough to provide the essentials for a family, to feed, cloth and buy or even rent a decent house. This has been forced gradually onto the people or I should say back onto the people as a regurgitation of the 1930's depression, and only that the treasurer has stopped short - several times in a recession, to ease slowly, pretending that he knows what he is doing. And this has been the destructive action of all the treasurers since 1971. The 66.6% top tax stopped that in the '50's and '60's, but we also need a no tax up to about $30,000, to keep within that 30% of GDP.
Posted by merv09, Friday, 11 March 2011 3:46:55 PM
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briar,

'Given that the Australian Christian Lobby is so powerful it persuaded the atheist Julia Gillard to state some 12 hours after ousting Kevin that she would not be legalising gay marriage, (right up there on everybody's lists of concerns that momentous day) we would be silly to pretend these movements in our country do not have power.'

That gave me a chuckle too. She was pretty quick to reaffirm the school Chaplain program too.
Posted by Houellebecq, Friday, 11 March 2011 4:12:34 PM
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Briar writes

'given that church schools are permitted to expel homosexual students for their sexual preference alone; given that Christian sexual conservatives, as represented by the anti choice feminist Melinda Tankard Reist, are powerful enough to censor various expressions of popular culture they don't approve of, we do have a situation we should be aware of and concerned about. '

and thankfully parents (many non believing) are enrolling their kids in droves in schools as they reject the fruit of the godless sexualisation of kids, drug taking and brain washing often going on in the schools that Briar champion.
Posted by runner, Friday, 11 March 2011 4:25:58 PM
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Chris, Your reply refers to a condition of anti intellectualism right across the spectrum.
Someone above took the words right of my mouth when they talked of personality issues rather than brains being the issue with this whimsical soul, also many playmates of this character also at Murderdoch Mansions.
The most arid example of this perversity comes within a day or so, with the fed ALP giving Gunns pulp fiction the nod with Garrett gone and Gillard out of town.
Posted by paul walter, Friday, 11 March 2011 8:02:53 PM
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"'the fact that the ABC in their scraping of the barrel for Q & A, drag her out occasionally to pontificate on subjects of little interest to her, allows others to see her as she really is."

dear oh dear, when you lack any kind of argument or rational thought, you attack the person .. not their ideas .. is that what is going on here?

Is this just a little hate club, online to compare notes about how much they hate a particular person .. what a profoundly leftist liberal thing to do. I imagine you'rea ll so happy agreeing with each other.

They get Janet on Q&A because there are so few conservatives in Australia, but so many liberals, outnumbered what, about 10,000 to 1 in the Media? Tell me I'm wrong .. name 10 conservatives in the media .. name 2 in the ABC, oh bugger it .. just name 1 ..

For balance, and to reflect the populace, how about stacking Q&A with one liberal and the rest of the panel conservatives? So the compere, Tony, and the rest conservatives .. imagine the horror at the ABC having more than one conservative in the building !

So poor is the tolerance of liberals in Australia, but of course they bemoan how intolerant conservatives are .. if only you could see yourselves as we see you .. hypocrits

You may not like her, but clearly Janet represents and appeals to a large part of Australia, get over it.

So I'll get out of your way now so you can all continue to vent about how awful it is that there is some representation of conservatism in Australia .. if only there were none .. yes that would be nice, what's that sate called, where you're all socialist big government controll the people types?
Posted by rpg, Saturday, 12 March 2011 10:08:39 AM
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rpg,

I have no problem with conservatives on any show or media source. In fact, I am all for it. I know a few, and they do have useful things to say.

I am merely responding to the Tea Party issue.
Posted by Chris Lewis, Saturday, 12 March 2011 10:15:00 AM
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