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The Australian political system and the scourge of Neoliberalism : Comments

By John Tomlinson, published 11/11/2015

They wince at the idea that society provides those with disabilities the services, health care and other necessities that will allow them to live dignified lives.

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The term bigot applies to someone who is intolerant of others opinions.

This description applies to John Tomlinson who thinks that the majority of Australians who have woken up from the nightmare of Labor incompetence.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 12 November 2015 2:23:53 PM
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free face lifts, free boob jobs, free teeth cleaning, free killing of babies but don't forget nurses are always underpaid, cleaners are always underpaid and you can't ask any contribution from those using the services. Its called socialist economics and of course the wind farms can supply the hospitals at a very low cost.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 12 November 2015 2:53:17 PM
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By the way, John, Pinochet was a national socialist like you. He's on your side. Remember? Like you, he believes that people have no rights but what government says they have. That's what you believe, isn't it? People have no right to their own income whatsoever until government has first taken as much as it wants and unilaterally decides on pain of imprisonment if they don't agree.

Yes? That's what you think isn't it?

Libertarians are in favour of the non-aggression principle, so your nasty remark about national socialist *governments* throwing people from helicopters was either 1. ignorant or 2. dishonest.

Which was it, John?
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 4:49:19 PM
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Well, looks like human freedom is not such a scourge and a plague after all, and the State is not such a big teat of milk of human kindness after all, eh John?

That's a complete fail on John's part.
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Friday, 13 November 2015 6:25:52 PM
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According to "visiting scholar" John Tomlinson, neo liberals are illogical cheapskates who want to destroy welfare, and make the poor beg for their supper. Well Peter, as a neo liberal myself, I would like to fire a broadside back at you.

I don't know what a "visiting scholar" is, but I presume it means that you have never done a day's work in your life. You must exist financially out of your daddy's trust fund, or you have found a way to make the taxpayer's fund your work free lifestyle. If the latter, then I can well understand your fear of neo liberals taking away your academic sinecure and forcing you to get a real job.

Now Peter, you obviously regard yourself as a super intelligent brain. So, how is it that you can not figure out that no society can spend more than it earns? If you are hankering after socialist economics, you are not a super intelligent brain, Peter, you are a complete idiot. Just in case you did not notice the passing of history, because you were too busy discussing economic theory with your work shy peers in some university coffee house, socialism failed everywhere that it was tried.

You can go on, and on, about the inequalities and absurdities of the free market, as opposed to more equitable planned economy. But in the end, the free market was better than the planned market. The free market is exactly like democracy, Peter. Democracy may be the worse form of government ever invented, but it just happens to beat everything else that has been tried.

But Peter is a True Believer in the planned economy. He is never going to let the inconvenient facts get in the way of a good social theory. Don't worry about deficits because money falls from the skies. If it doesn't, just borrow it from German bankers forever and don't pay them back. Then tell the bankers that you can never pay them back unless they give you more money. It works for the socialist Greeks.
Posted by LEGO, Saturday, 14 November 2015 3:47:57 AM
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This article is excessive, It is full of assertion with no supporting evidence . The statement: "Conniving, two-timing, ruthless, duplicity, lying, cheating, crawling, denying and stubborn pig-headedness are better predictors of how far a politician will get on the greasy pole" may in part be true. But it needed at least some minimal support. For an academic, who must face the requirement to supply supporting evidence for their statements, it is an intellectually empty article. It should never have been published.

Peter Bowden
Posted by PeterBo, Monday, 16 November 2015 10:48:49 AM
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