Dear Individual,

No. It's more like jumping from a
plane without a parachute.
splat!

Lexi,
the splat has already happened under Rudd/Gillard. At least with Abbott we're still on the way down with the chance of a miracle.

Dear Individual,

Yes I agree with that.

A miracle called Turnbull for which we're
all praying!

I think you make your points clearly and well Rehctub in your last post, I understand and empathise with your position.

I think its lost upon Coalition supporters however, that their party has never actually supported small to medium businesses but in fact is the party of Big Business, Particularly International Corporations. They have successfully dressed up their policies as supporting small business but in fact their policies support Corporations.

This goes right back too Pig Iron Bob Menzies and Joh Bjelke Petersen selling Qld coal for a cent a ton too International Conglomerates with whom he was also a shareholder. It is in their DNA. Selling Australia's assets during the last Liberal Govt saw the remainder of our essential services sold to their Corporate Buddies.

The plan for Corporations is obviously to be "the only source of food and water, of power and fuel, of Health Care, of Telecommunications, News,information,and Education etc".

Ironically workers love small to medium businesses because most of us work in them. The Big end of town is finding ways to de-staff, finding ways employ fewer and fewer people, finding ways to disrupt and destroy competition from small and medium business with predatory pricing, massive false advertising campaigns and so on. In Australia the Corporations have almost achieved this dream scenario.

All of these things were once kept safe by a stronger Trade Practices Act. Small businesses were much better protected from the greed of the Big End of Town then. Workers were more assured of real and secure employment and life was far more consensus driven.

With Howard came confrontation politics in the workplaces, and division in the community, using polarising things like dogs on the wharves, fictional weapons of mass destruction and children overboard to fire public imagination. Now we just think this way, and as I have said before "the right" has now positioned itself as the centre in the imaginations of todays typical Aussie Voter.

Oh woe is us Lexi

Dear thinker 2,

It's sad allright. Qantas is following the
disastrous trend of Australian companies
moving overseas. Soon there will be little
left to call "Australian." We'll import
everything from China and we'll be lucky
to survive as a tourist destination.

Perhaps one way to solve Australia's
"refugee problem" may well be to sell
the entire country to Asian interests.

Woe is us indeed.

Hope you saw Leigh Sales interview with Paul Keating on 7.30 Report tonight Lexi.

He's still got it. Everything is so clear after you hear him tell the story. He is a big picture thinker and still miles ahead of his time. Maybe he could come back to lead the Labor Party.

cheers T2