Hi Paul,

They call themselves conservatives. They're not.
They don't want to conserve what we now have. They'd
rather take this country backwards. They're not conservatives,
they're regressives. And the country they seek is the
cultural backwater of the past.

Paul

Weren't the last words of your post "End of story"? I knew it was too good to be true.

Foxy tells us "That's why so many want to come and live here."

The reasons she listed were all the free stuff Australia gives its citizens. I agree that the vast majority of immigrants come here for the benefits Australia gives them, not to benefit Australia.

More fool us.

Paul, misunderstanding as usual, thinks that welfare is a socialist policy tacked onto capitalism. He's wrong. Welfare is very much part of capitalism. Indeed, only capitalism is successful enough to be able to afford the type of benefits Australia (and most other capitalist nations) gives it citizenry.

But it all misses the point. Socialism is an economic system. Capitalism is an economic system. Fascism is an economic system. As is communism. They are all designed to create wealth and distribute it. Capitalism just does it better than all the others - creating more wealth and distributing it more equitably

Unlike Capitalism, Socialism can’t pay for itself !

Dear Mhaze,

«Socialism is an economic system. Capitalism is an economic system. Fascism is an economic system. As is communism. They are all designed to create wealth and distribute it.»

That is the problem with them all!

As you just correctly pointed, none are based on what is right, none are based on what is good, only on wealth.