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Abbott Government in crisis as the end of year approaches : Comments

By Tristan Ewins, published 23/12/2013

All that said: it is not as if they didn’t have options. The floating dollar could have been temporarily suspended – and maybe pegged at 75 cents US – to bolster struggling industries – also including tourism for instance.

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O Sung Wu; I have never been a Stalinist, and have never wanted to impose Stalinism on this country. There are a number of descriptions that could sum up my politics, though: liberal democracy socialist, left social democrat etc; I have also found inspiration in the more radical tendencies of the Second International: for instance Austro-Marxism. If you look at the history in detail you'd see that the most determined opponents of Stalinism - and even critics of pre-Stalin Bolshevism - were themselves socialists. Karl Kautsky for instance. Or Rosa Luxemburg.
Posted by Tristan Ewins, Monday, 23 December 2013 12:40:42 PM
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Yes we're all Doomed under the Coalition, but its so much better than Shorty's Labor Party.

And I got a Coalition Christmas Card, so there :)

Just click on this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B_TZXMJY3uU/UreotQBzeXI/AAAAAAAAEno/U1YUEYgIr78/s1600/Abbott+and+Friend's+season's+greetings.jpg

Merry Christmas all ye OLO comment comrades.

Pete xx
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 23 December 2013 1:27:24 PM
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"All that said: it is not as if they didn’t have options. The floating dollar could have been temporarily suspended – and maybe pegged at 75 cents US – to bolster struggling industries – also including tourism for instance. But this was ruled out for frankly ideological reasons."

This is ideological green Left economics at its best.
Posted by Raycom, Monday, 23 December 2013 2:23:08 PM
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"Maybe pegged at 75cents" yup that's about as sophisticated as economics gets on the Left.

Supporting handouts to US companies now eh?. Ford and Mitsubushi went under Labor with barely a sound. Qantas struggled under Labor, not in the last 3 months.

If this is the calibre of Labor's future pollies and I suspect it is, the Libs will romp it in.
Posted by Atman, Monday, 23 December 2013 2:37:14 PM
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Well Tristan, as you may well expect, I know nothing of those enlightened individuals that you've kindly cited herein ? Obviously they're academics from some bygone period of Socialist antiquity. And, for the most part I neither recognise their names nor understand their political or social prominence ?

You see Tristan, I'm not a very well educated individual, but I do know that it's your type that has endeavoured to drag this country down to such a point that we're unable to even maintain any pretence of manufacturing ! Essentially, because of the continued exacerbation of preposterous Union ultimatums that has forced Manufactures to capitulate to the whims of the various Union heavyweights.

What a shameful position this once great country has now found itself; held hostage by a few menacing union heavies. Tristan, if you have even a shred of principle and ethical standards, you'd be shouting from the rooftops for all your socialist companions, to fix this immoral and corrupt mess, that you and your kind have occasioned to this ailing nation of ours !
Posted by o sung wu, Monday, 23 December 2013 9:11:06 PM
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Tristan

I am in business. I understand why ford holden and qantas all found huge difficulties this year.

You see traditionally in Australia business tighten their belts whenever an election is called because consumers/voters sense uncertainity and just don't spend.

Your enlightened mates just ran an election campaign for NINE months.

What did you all f...ing expect. You dopey mongrels. And now it's all someone elses fault.

You're a bloody disgrace.
Posted by imajulianutter, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 11:16:31 AM
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