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Are Conservatives uncaring?

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Runner,
I don't think either party has policies of "murdering the unborn' but one has probably dropped bombs on a lot of innocent pregnant women.
Posted by rache, Monday, 18 March 2013 6:50:43 PM
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Watsit….neither party is our friend…the majority of us picks the policies that suit our mindset, and so pick a party, generally for life. I see you have picked yours.

If you defend imbeciles by their policies rather than their achievements, or not, in regard to the current crop of Labor non performing clowns, then you exhibit the “follower” mindset. Not an original thought in your head but a mouth able to recite spin in your sleep…

No offence but you are a simple soul as exhibited with your choice of a combative pubescently witty name. I will give you a surname to compliment the brilliantly connived Whatsit2ya.
Whatsit2ya Nuffin4ya…..That sums it up sport.

Suse, you too carry no original thoughts, reality has escaped you as well my dear self indulgent activist.

I agree with Jay.
Posted by sonofgloin, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 4:57:05 PM
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Dear SOG,

Policy formation is one of the most important functions
of government and opposition. Democracy assumes that the
governing party best respresents the policy choices
of a majority of the people. Most people vote for a party
rather than a person. The party is a priority for the
voter's political philosophy - and there was a time when
the policies of each major party were fairly predictable.

The Labor Party had its origins in the labour movement and
reflected the values of labour rather than capital. The
Liberal Party had its origins elsewhere: they were not
those of Labor, but they were equally distinctive.

By voting for one party or the other, a voter could be
tolerably confident about how the party would respond to
changing circumstances if elected to government.

Those days are gone.

Now it is difficult to see significant differences between
policies of the major parties, except on a few issues.
It is impossible to predict with any confidence how either
party will respond to changing circumstances. This modern
fact of political life is a result of new technology which
allows political parties to see what policy responses will
produce an electoral advantage in key marginal electorates.

The mainstream media is a vital part of this process, since the
loudest voices in the dominant outlets play a major part in
shaping the views which will be expressed in news polls.
Founding principles and philosophy have disappeared as
significant forces in policy formation it seems.
Posted by Lexi, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 7:31:46 PM
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Lexi all you say is pertinent. I sit with corporate decision makers and small business owners whose sole aim is to make profit. The dropping of trade tariffs and the ridiculous Aus dollar value force these folks to source from overseas. Both sides of politics are anti Australian regarding our ability to sustain ourselves.

We no longer have oil refineries, so if the tap is turned off overseas we are back to using medieval forms of energy and no politician has uttered a word. Companies are closing at a faster rate than during the 2007/08 global meltdown, a global meltdown that saw our GDP unchanged, so much for our “crisis”. Corporate registered businesses are closing at a rate of one every 45 minutes, more closures than the GFC could muster for Australia. Politicians have allowed corporations to control our futures and govern the direction of their policies.

We are selling our arable lands, our water, our gas and our self sufficiency with neither party having any policies that ensure a future for a self reliant Australia economically. All politicians have stabbed our kids in the back and put the hands of banks into the pockets of generations yet unborn.

Left and right are as bad as each other given they take direction from the IMF and UN social reforms that supposedly take from us to “share the globes wealth” with second and third world nations. That does not happen, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the ones in the middle such as the majority of Australians are supplying the resource at the cost of our children’s future.

An example of the bastardry of the IMF is the proposed theft of private money from the bank accounts of Cypriots. The greedy Lehman Bros type operations sink the economy and we bail them out with the aid of the governments we vote in to protect us….yet they protect the “money,” the corporations, foreign investors….a pox on both their house, but Labor has to go as they are treasonous criminal and stupid, while the Coalition are merely treasonous criminals.
Posted by sonofgloin, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 6:52:34 AM
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