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Comrades, now or never! The case for a general strike to bust the budget : Comments
By Marko Beljac, published 27/5/2014The attack on the people of Australia that the Abbott Government, at the behest of corporate Australia, just intensified by means of its first budget has galvanised community and labour movement activists.
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With the example of Europe killing the Golden Goose with unfunded welfare, you would think that Marko could make the connection that you can not have a society where everybody is a dependent of the government. Somebody has to do the work to make the money so that the socialists can use it to buy the votes of the dependents.
In the short term, you are probably going to win this one, Marko. There are too many people who want to live off welfare, who do not want to believe that the government can run out of money. Just keep telling them that all is well, and they will (like the Greeks) vote for you forever.
But you will lose in the end, Marko. Because sooner or later, you will run out of money to finance your bludgers paradise. Eventually, just like Greece, the bankers will stop lending you money if you do not grow a brain and do what needs to be done to repay them. And if you think that Abbott's plan is painful now, you ain't seen nothin' yet if the bailiff's arrive.