It is based on the understanding that those who don't do everything possible to pull their own weight are bludgers, rich or poor.

Richo started buying bludgers, & boy didn't he & labor find heaps who just love doing nothing but vote for a living.

yes its obvious David f is a teacher. He wants more money for a failed school system and make those already subsidising the public system to pay more.

Here's one for you David. It shows how a 6 year old has far more sense than the pushers of your secular dogmas

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153155552872334&fref=nf

Dear runner,

I had an excellent education in the public schools of the United States. One reason it was so good was that it was in the thirties when the United States was in depression. My teachers were highly educated, well-qualified and went into teaching because it was hard for them to get other jobs. One reason the education system is not as good now as it was when I went to school is that teaching does not pay enough to compete with other ways of making a living. There are still good teachers, but many of them are there because they could not qualify for the training to get other jobs. Making teaching more attractive by raising teacher’s pay will bring better teachers into the system. It’s remarkable that the system is as good as it is.

My teaching was all on the university level. I taught physics, mathematics and computer science. As a teacher I encouraged my students to question dogma of any kind. Questions one can ask about any dogma are: What is the evidence for it? How reliable is the evidence? How rigourous is the reasoning from the evidence. Any scientific theory is no longer valid if one can find an exception where it doesn’t apply.

One example of a scientific theory that has been superseded is Newton’s laws of motion. They were a tremendous advance forward in that they put forth a way of mathematically describing motion. They were published in 1687. Leonhard Euler in 1750 introduced a generalisation of Newton's laws of motion for rigid bodies called the Euler's laws of motion, later applied as well for deformable bodies assumed as a continuum. In 1905 Newtonian mechanics were superseded by special relativity, but it is still useful as an approximation when the speeds involved are much slower than the speed of light.

One example of a scientific theory that has not been superseded is evolution. The theory has never been superseded as no exceptions to it have been found. Religious mumbojumbo by a six year old is not evidence for anything.

david f, that really depends on what you mean by "theory". Darwinian evolution superseded Lamarckian evolution, but we now know that some aspects of evolution differ significantly from how Darwin understood them to be.

Aidan wrote:

"david f, that really depends on what you mean by "theory". Darwinian evolution superseded Lamarckian evolution, but we now know that some aspects of evolution differ significantly from how Darwin understood them to be."

Dear Aidan,

What particular aspects do you refer to?

david f, one particularly significant aspect is the transfer of genes between different species by viruses.

But there are many others. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought

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Hasbeen, as david f wants User Pays for everything except health, education, infrastructure, the environment or public security, I'm a bit puzzled why you think that specifically benefits those who don't do enough to pull their own weight?