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Top down or bottom up? : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 26/9/2014

The first is The Big Issue, a periodical which is sold outside shopping malls by disabled people, who sell the magazine for $6 and retain $3 for themselves.

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OK, and thanks for the good intentions, but why this language?

Implicit is that government is "top" and ordinary us are "bottom".

Why so?

Government is the bottom of the heap, a cancerous parasite, that material which should be flushed DOWN the toilet.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Friday, 26 September 2014 11:16:08 AM
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This is the summer of our discount tents.
Nice story Don, and such a nice fillip, in a world gone mad and at war with righteousness itself!
Thank you and more power to your pen!
Rhrosty
Posted by Rhrosty, Friday, 26 September 2014 11:18:10 AM
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"One way, much favoured by the left, is that government sees the need and acts decisively to solve the problem. Another way is that the community senses the need, and its members act in a voluntary way to help.'

A third way, favoured by the right, is that government gets out of the bloody way and lets people get on with what they're good at without regulating every tiny step they need to take in order to do it.
Posted by Jon J, Saturday, 27 September 2014 6:21:08 AM
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Don't be so silly Jon J, how do you think we are going to employ all those nice arts graduates, churned out by B grade courses by B grade universities, for students with B grade school results, if we don't continue to expand government regulatory bodies, to oversee new regulations?

After all McDonalds can only put so many of them to work doing something almost useful.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 27 September 2014 12:07:55 PM
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