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Reaping what they did not sow : Comments

By Anthony Cox, published 17/6/2013

Rather than being skilful the current government has inherited from the luck of the 'Lucky Country'.

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Yes but would a coalition government have done any better over the last few years?

We’d like to think that they wouldn’t have turned a big surplus into a massive debt, or bungled so many policies initiatives.

It is hard to imagine that they could have done as poorly as Labor. But then in 2007 no one could have imagined that Rudd and Gillard would lead such a ratty gang of wrongdoers!

In all probability the Coalition would have had a highly chequered record as well.

They are basically two peas in a pod. There is very little difference between them.

So now Rudd is set to make a return, which will apparently lift Labor’s chances of winning the next election from nil to 50/50.

And yet Rudd is at least as guilty as Gillard for Labor’s dismal record.
Posted by Ludwig, Monday, 17 June 2013 10:26:10 AM
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"They are basically two peas in a pod. There is very little difference between them."

That is basically wrong.

The coalition would not have produced such an obscene debt. They would not have let in 44000 illegal boat-people. They would not have introduced a carbon tax.

The coalition however, still thinks renewable energy is viable; in this they are similar in not being able to understand renewable energy is a scam. Still I think their support of renewable energy is not as profound as the Gillard government's.

And noone could be as incompetent as this government; they are incapable of doing anything right.
Posted by cohenite, Monday, 17 June 2013 10:30:48 AM
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Reaping what we have indivdually and collectively sown indeed!

It seems to me that Chris Hedges summed up the world situation altogether, and more specifically the USA and to a lesser degree here in the land of OZ via his recent essay titled - A Brave New Distopia On Brave New World & 1984.

That having been said the humanly created world is now in a state of individual and collective psychosis, or put more simply we are collectively insane - havent you noticed.

Which is also to say that the human world is now ungovernable or completely beyond any kind of human control.

At least that is the summary observation of the author of this essay:
http://www.dabase.org/p8realpolitik.htm
And pointed too (and described) in the multiple points here:
http://www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm

What is interesting about these references, particularly the multiple points, is that those on the so called conservative side of the culture wars divide actually promote all of the negative phenomenon and tendencies as a cultural imperative or a measure of our supposed "success" and the "triumph" of Western "civilization".
Posted by Daffy Duck, Monday, 17 June 2013 11:15:33 AM
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Speaking of being held to account for crimes that were ACTUALLY committed and caused the murder of more than 100,000 human, the deliberate destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and continuing misery for millions of human beings, including that caused by Depleted Uranium, John Howard should be tried as a war criminal (under international law).
This reference provides a starting point for the criminal evidence.
http://erasingiraq.com

As does the book War Without End The Iraq War in Context by Michael Schwartz (see http://www.tomdispatch.com )
Posted by Daffy Duck, Monday, 17 June 2013 11:41:04 AM
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" Every other economic policy this government has done, from the Building Education revolution, to the Mining tax, to the National Broadcast Network, has either featured such cost overruns that the integrity and benefit of what would otherwise may have been a reasonable policy idea has been undermined ... "

Economic policies were developed on the run, e.g. the NBN idea was hatched and adopted during an airline flight . Major projects went ahead without a cost-benefit analysis. Furthermore, the benefits were poorly defined and grossly exaggerated, and the cost overruns were the result of gross cost underestimation and incompetent project management.
Posted by Raycom, Monday, 17 June 2013 11:52:41 AM
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Daffy Duck: "Speaking of being held to account for crimes that were ACTUALLY committed and caused the murder of more than 100,000 human, the deliberate destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and continuing misery for millions of human beings ... "

You need not look overseas for examples of crimes against humanity. Every year, some 100,000 innocent human beings, namely unborn babies, are slaughtered in Australia. Shamefully, this is allowed under a law which ignores the fact that human life starts at the moment of conception
Posted by Raycom, Monday, 17 June 2013 12:06:26 PM
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