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» 14/11/2009 5:47:06 PM Arthur Fadden (Country party) ran a single surplus in 1951. Another surplus was not seen f.....
» 13/11/2009 10:48:40 PM "The fact is this lady is simply incompetent for the job at hand." I couldn't a.....
» 12/11/2009 8:59:35 PM I continually hear about this great boom that has occurred in both Queensland public secto.....
» 25/10/2009 12:14:56 PM I guess that's a no then? Seriously, how have we become so conditioned to despise governm.....
» 23/10/2009 10:16:50 PM Peter, The only answer I can give to such a pre-loaded question is “it didn’t”. I find y.....
» 23/10/2009 6:10:41 AM As, I was saying before the computer told me no, speculative questions do not amount to ar.....
» 22/10/2009 9:35:25 PM ”True, and as there are no constant relations between human values, actual observation req.....
» 21/10/2009 10:19:41 PM Arjay, keeping people in jobs is unproductive? As opposed to letting them join the ranks .....
» 21/10/2009 5:54:25 AM Peter, theories can be beautiful things but are no substitute for actual observation. Unf.....
» 20/10/2009 8:26:32 PM "If you accept the notion that government borrowings not only add to interest rates b.....
» 19/10/2009 9:41:33 PM Arjay, going on the title page, it is obvious that Paul makes the same assumption as the .....
» 16/10/2009 12:41:55 PM Arjay, your equating of sovereign government debt with private debt reveals that you shar.....
» 15/10/2009 8:57:23 PM The author's ignorance of the actual basic functioning of modern monetary economies is sta.....
» 15/10/2009 5:57:56 PM Are you suggesting that the stimulus has actually CREATED unemployment rather than minimis.....
» 7/10/2009 9:12:31 PM I hear you there slasher. The biggest problem is that 30+ years of almost total neo-liber.....
» 6/10/2009 9:48:37 PM Same old same old. While most of us would use a flyswat to swat a fly, the RBA would use .....
» 5/10/2009 6:10:22 PM Sancho, you just brightened up my evening with that wonderful synopsis. I'm sure Col will.....
» 28/09/2009 9:21:05 AM I have no problem with an overhaul of the tax system. Though I'm not sure that those who p.....
» 28/09/2009 7:35:29 AM I disagree that the stimulus was far to large. It could perhaps have been better targetted.....
» 27/09/2009 8:23:27 AM At the beginning of this year, all construction projects in my town simply stopped dead. L.....
» 27/09/2009 8:05:11 AM Fair enough Saul. It seems to me though that good regulation could be just as effective a.....
» 24/09/2009 8:37:21 PM Saul, the entire cut and thrust of your argument is that you would like to see interest r.....
» 23/09/2009 8:45:33 PM I think we should be cautious in accepting the authors argument that a high appetite for r.....
» 12/09/2009 3:28:27 PM You were apparently unaware of a long period of near full employment as well but you don't.....
» 12/09/2009 7:50:10 AM AJFA, “In terms of the 1960’s and low unemployment” As you yourself can see, very low un.....
» 10/09/2009 9:26:21 PM It is indeed about facts AJFA. And the facts are that unemployment over the Keynsian peri.....
» 9/09/2009 9:24:15 PM When a Labor minister takes advice from a neo-liberal clown like this, you know that there.....
» 2/09/2009 8:59:26 PM Peter, you and the author of the article both seem to have missed the part where the well-.....
» 1/09/2009 8:44:34 PM I disagree that rates should be hiked early and hard. As you yourself have noted, total l.....
» 19/08/2009 6:58:19 PM Perhaps Alan's forecasting will be more accurate this time than he was in December of last.....
» 11/08/2009 7:19:14 PM Hi kulu. First, I will agree that there is a difference between a government spending 2-3.....
» 10/08/2009 9:12:28 PM Formersnag, Where did the money you stashed away come from? Did you run it out on a print.....
» 9/08/2009 9:17:09 PM Kulu, Firstly, I could not agree more that we should be investing more in science, educat.....
» 9/08/2009 2:06:13 PM Chris, I agree with your assessment that many things can still go wrong, that we cannot g.....
» 8/08/2009 7:57:19 PM Chris, I share some of the concerns you have raised. But the points raised by Rache and m.....
» 7/08/2009 8:52:11 PM Yes, that's what I said Chris. Check modern history. WW2 to the early 1970's counts as mo.....
» 7/08/2009 6:18:24 PM Hasbeen, Great confusion arises when we equate a sovereign government budget with a house.....
» 6/08/2009 5:49:57 PM "And governments need to finance debt" Chris, sovereign governments do not need.....
» 12/07/2009 12:32:09 PM You are correct that China accounts for around 15-16% of our imports Yabby. However, as I .....
» 12/07/2009 11:45:54 AM Shadow Minister, Refer to the opening paragraph of my first post. There is no point equat.....
» 11/07/2009 7:32:07 AM Yabby, which bells and whistles is it that particularly aggrieve you? If I remember corre.....
» 10/07/2009 4:16:58 PM rehctub, (I assume you are talking to me when you say "foxy" - I've never though.....
» 10/07/2009 3:40:35 PM Wing Ah Ling, The general thrust of your argument that Keynesianism is responsable for th.....
» 9/07/2009 9:22:32 PM So the new IR regime has taken us back to the Whitlam era or further rpg? Forgive my mirt.....
» 9/07/2009 1:45:00 PM Oh please, you pair! We are simply going PART of the way back to where we were before Kin.....
» 9/07/2009 12:10:47 PM My understanding is that before we can talk about deficit and debt, we need to have a basi.....
» 12/06/2009 6:06:55 PM I have read this letter before. While I strongly argue the fact the federal government is .....
» 4/06/2009 6:15:20 PM Peter, Once again you are talking about what IF?, rather than what IS. So you accept tha.....
» 3/06/2009 6:15:28 AM Wing Ah Ling, Peter Hume This is what I'm talking about. When it comes to how the modern .....
» 30/05/2009 9:46:10 PM Wing Ah Ling Commodity money or commodity-backed money are things of the past, as you are.....
» 29/05/2009 9:25:57 PM Rechts, it is clear that you do not understand the basic functioning of our modern moneta.....
» 29/05/2009 5:36:50 PM Wing Ah Ling, If you disagree with these fundamentals then you do not understand how our .....
» 28/05/2009 7:43:38 PM Alan, while I do not disagree with the uncertainty surrounding the treasury forecasts, I r.....
» 28/05/2009 7:01:15 PM The Australian government - be it Labor or Coalition - presides over a modern monetary eco.....
» 27/05/2009 5:56:31 AM Isn't it quaint how neo-classicals just hate, hate, hate government with such a passion th.....
» 25/05/2009 8:03:59 PM "Governments do not have enough money to fix the size of the problem" This stat.....
» 17/05/2009 7:43:04 PM Arjay, the possibility of local government being able to afford to fund health, education .....
» 17/05/2009 9:01:05 AM The hysterical ravings in the media regarding federal deficit budgets and the supposed nee.....
» 23/04/2009 6:30:33 AM Jefferson, your argument is not consistent with the facts. Fiat currency does not dilute .....
» 22/04/2009 8:36:49 PM Hi palimpsest What are you saying? That commercial lending activities are compelling the .....
» 20/04/2009 5:50:54 PM Hi Grim. The mass trend towards debt as an everyday tool for everything instead of saving.....
» 19/04/2009 10:49:03 PM under one God, these are all good questions and all perfectly logical to ask. One of the .....
» 19/04/2009 8:14:25 AM Under one God, Apologies, but your style of writing is a little hard for me to follow. It.....
» 18/04/2009 10:43:05 PM “Discuss the merits of his ideas” I have re-read the article but am hard pressed to find .....
» 18/04/2009 7:34:04 AM "What must happen is the shrinking of Govt and the reduction of taxes" I don't .....
» 17/04/2009 9:20:46 PM The author of this article is a complete idiot. He mostly engages in speculative resoning .....
» 15/04/2009 10:25:33 AM Why don't you spell it out for me All? I couldn't really see anywhere in the rather poeti.....
» 12/04/2009 6:12:47 AM Not meaning to be offensive here Sam, but your style of writing makes it sometimes difficu.....
» 11/04/2009 9:23:03 AM Hi Sam The "very dangerous thing to do" is done every single day as part of the.....
» 10/04/2009 6:53:46 AM Hi Sam You ask a perfectly logical question: if the fed does not need to tax in order to .....
» 9/04/2009 6:09:34 AM Oops, you're right Q&A, it was ERGAS not THORNTON - I wrote that at the end of a very long.....
» 8/04/2009 9:21:38 PM Hi Q&A Are you a moderator? The reason I went down this road is that underpinning the wh.....
» 7/04/2009 8:03:53 PM sam, would it make it easier to accept how our modern monetary economy functions if I sai.....
» 7/04/2009 6:18:48 AM Good. So you understand that the sovereign ( I'll use the term "currency monopolist&q.....
» 6/04/2009 7:50:46 PM This extreme right-wing opinion piece is a steaming heap, riddled with silly claims. In n.....
» 6/04/2009 7:25:50 PM Hi sam. Apparently missing from all your links is the answer to the most important questi.....
» 5/04/2009 9:49:37 AM Sam, as near as I can tell, you are still thinking of a federal government budget as func.....
» 5/04/2009 6:37:19 AM All, do you actually have anything of any value to add to the discussion?.....
» 4/04/2009 7:41:52 AM Sam said, You are just repeating neo-liberal trash talk. Government is not a burden on so.....
» 3/04/2009 6:38:08 PM "Ultimately, all government spending must be paid for from taxes that have a high eco.....
» 30/03/2009 7:13:41 PM The budget defecit must be funded by borrowing money that could have been used for alterna.....
» 29/03/2009 3:56:53 PM Jardine K Jardine, You are misunderstanding the nature of a modern monetary economy. Sov.....
» 26/03/2009 9:11:56 PM In a modern monetary economy like the US (and Australia), sovereign - federal- government .....
» 25/03/2009 7:56:18 PM Of course! All the problems stem from the fact that we are just not neo-liberal ENOUGH. We.....
» 25/02/2009 7:46:14 PM The stimulus package(s) will not be able to cure the problem. But that is not the intent......
» 13/02/2009 8:35:21 PM Funny that, I too was in another country that jettisoned any measure of socialism long ago.....
» 12/01/2009 6:29:51 PM Well Malcom, I started back at work today. It is two weeks before school starts and there.....
» 6/01/2009 4:16:02 PM The author never quite clearly spells out his position here other than that he doesn't lik.....
» 15/12/2008 9:13:36 PM "Crisis? What Crisis?" wrote the author a few months ago. How's that coming alon.....
» 14/11/2008 9:44:25 PM The roots of the crisis lie in both poor regulation and sheer unfettered greed. Lack of re.....
» 28/10/2008 8:01:04 PM The title of the article suggests that the author is in posession of a crystal ball. Bette.....
» 19/10/2008 9:37:39 AM I don't necessarily disagree with all the measures you are suggesting plersedus but I thin.....
» 19/10/2008 8:59:17 AM I'm not attempting to blame the victim fester. Plenty of people truly are the victims of t.....
» 17/10/2008 9:19:03 PM Nice try Col, but it's you who are misrepresenting. Howard slashed (if halving is not call.....
» 17/10/2008 6:21:15 AM Col, why do you go on endlessly arguing that black is white? What purpose does it serve to.....
» 16/10/2008 6:23:29 AM I find myself agreeing with Yabby that house prices need to come down quite significantly......
» 14/10/2008 9:04:38 PM Themistocles, would you mind bringing to light exactly which pieces of government regulat.....
» 12/10/2008 7:05:02 PM "It may be in an upswing that confidence returns" Yep - confidence, and anger a.....
» 9/10/2008 5:22:59 PM I agree that workers are less likely to join up during a recession Passey but what I was a.....
» 8/10/2008 8:12:30 PM Sadly SJF, I think we have declined. All the reasons the author has cited have contribute.....
» 1/10/2008 9:59:22 PM Er, $300 000 000 equals an expenditure of ONE dollar for every man, woman and child in the.....
» 12/09/2008 8:48:09 PM Care to explain your summary?.....
» 12/09/2008 8:18:14 AM Agree with Dagget - a gnerally good article, the only thing wrong is the claim that we nee.....
» 7/09/2008 7:12:58 PM Exactly Lenthalls, I have a water privatizing story of my own which I will return to short.....
» 25/08/2008 8:16:46 AM Keith, Broaden your mind? Excuse me if I chuckle. I hope you succeed, I thought you would.....
» 24/08/2008 5:14:16 PM I seem to recall that he signed us up a war on false premises (WMD's) and for the remainde.....
» 24/08/2008 7:21:33 AM I had hoped for an intelligent and reasoned counter-argument from you Keith, but it seems .....
» 22/08/2008 9:38:05 PM "Interest rates up, petrol price up....even though barrels of oil are down by 20%...g.....
» 20/08/2008 9:13:37 PM We have a shortage of people to fill those jobs because of a resource boom. We also had a .....
» 19/08/2008 10:33:22 PM Ah yes, The Oz-tray-lian - my favourite morningly online right wing snot rag. Read that ar.....
» 18/08/2008 9:00:55 PM "May I suggest instead of looking at countries behind us.." Heh, nice try at re.....
» 17/08/2008 8:33:11 PM You seem quite the little Freidmanite (the best service that mongrel ever did for the worl.....
» 17/08/2008 9:00:56 AM I agree that the wellbeing of society is the criterion here. However, that is where our ag.....
» 16/08/2008 7:02:43 PM The centre for independent studies should be more appropriately re-named "The centre .....
» 16/08/2008 4:07:12 PM Yes a tariff could be regarded as a kind of a tax - one that can be legally avoided by buy.....
» 16/08/2008 8:18:05 AM As a lefty, I am surprised that I seem to be the only one so far agreeing with Nicholas's .....
» 3/08/2008 7:19:11 AM "At the end of his reign, we were left with a deskilled country, stripped of public a.....
» 2/08/2008 9:23:49 PM There is NO POSSIBLE justification for the existence of such unbelievably draconian laws. .....
» 14/07/2008 8:46:49 PM I know someone who bought shares in the Chinchilla coal-to-liquids operation a few years a.....
» 18/05/2008 8:20:29 PM Lots of people chose to get in on the renovation/investment property craze, collectively b.....
» 16/05/2008 10:49:53 PM What are you babbling about Dallas? Are you trying to suggest that the long mounting hous.....
» 10/05/2008 8:28:09 PM It is true across many industries outside the resource sector. Living in a resource town .....
» 8/05/2008 9:55:48 AM You can't blame many of the unions for wanting to play catch up though. If they do NOT mak.....
» 7/05/2008 8:36:40 PM I am not convinced that wage restraint will keep a proper lid on inflation. It is often t.....
» 23/04/2008 7:18:10 PM I thought the summit was a great idea. Putting a number on a ballot paper every few years .....
» 18/04/2008 5:03:44 PM The United States is the most-sympathetic-to-Hayek's veiw's place I have visited. It is a.....
» 13/04/2008 8:06:12 PM I hear many conflicting stories about Australian domestic oil supply. The author says tha.....
» 13/04/2008 9:18:40 AM "Since when has the oil become more important than the motor?" It hasn't. But i.....
» 12/04/2008 8:26:04 AM What bemuses me is the habit some people have of constantly referring to the failure of so.....
» 1/04/2008 10:53:00 PM Go spark up another one Ed, before you come to your senses and realise you're talking crap.....
» 31/03/2008 8:28:19 PM I understand that this is generally the case Col, but is this really the best long-term de.....
» 31/03/2008 10:09:53 AM Sigh. Your arguments get sillier and sillier Ed. You appear determined to ignore all argum.....
» 30/03/2008 5:19:42 PM The final paragraph of Billie's last post is profoundly correct. Hear, hear Billie! I am .....
» 30/03/2008 7:48:47 AM Nothing wrong with a productivity commission as such Ed, just pointing out that all commis.....
» 29/03/2008 8:43:34 AM Ed, the productivity commisission is a collection of high level bureaucrats selected by th.....
» 28/03/2008 7:45:40 PM I haven't been able to find out what the current arrangement is Ed. Perhaps the government.....
» 26/03/2008 9:22:33 PM Perhaps I wan't clear enough. The big plants in the central Queensland industrial city of .....
» 25/03/2008 10:32:53 PM Ed, the very reason that some monopolies are controlled by governments is that competition.....
» 24/03/2008 11:00:12 PM Ed, yes water is a scarce resource and a natural monopoly also for blindingly obvious reas.....
» 24/03/2008 10:11:04 AM No ed, the situation occurred BECAUSE price controls did not exist and because water is a .....
» 23/03/2008 9:41:15 PM Uh huh. Exactly where did I profess to be communist Trade 215? Didn't you read my earlier.....
» 23/03/2008 7:42:40 AM Regarding the attempted exploitation of the public through a privately owned natural monop.....
» 22/03/2008 8:43:19 PM Wow! What an untrammelled crock of neo-conservatism ed online. I hardly know where to begi.....
» 22/03/2008 6:21:36 AM Competition and co-operation are really two sides of the same coin, inseparable from one a.....
» 16/03/2008 4:26:45 PM I read the article by Laurie Oaks and it perfectly sums up the experience I have had with .....
» 29/02/2008 9:46:29 PM Tristan, I would like to see more direct state ownership/control of critical areas - ".....
» 28/02/2008 6:18:45 AM Passy - I grew up believing in revolutionary socialism. My father was a delegate for the B.....
» 27/02/2008 8:24:33 PM Cutting the minimum wage by 20% but giving low-paid workers a tax break so that they don't.....
» 27/02/2008 7:55:49 PM I basically agree with Tristan's definition of socialism. Furthermore, I too see no reason.....
» 26/02/2008 6:06:30 AM "Pure capitalism is a bit like the perfect market, it does not exist" We might .....
» 25/02/2008 8:59:49 PM "Why capitalism works and socialism does not is simple" Care to point out a few.....
» 14/02/2008 9:00:39 PM Col (last line) I hope you are wrong. I'll wait a few years before passing judgement on th.....
» 13/02/2008 8:58:24 PM Hi Coogeegal. I recently had an experience that prompted me to mull over a few tough ques.....
» 9/02/2008 7:51:23 PM I will be watching the opening of parliment and the apology on Wednesday. I agree that th.....
» 8/02/2008 8:31:55 PM Hmm. It appears that the righties have either accepted that the well off are recieving an .....
» 8/02/2008 8:13:45 PM I basically agree, We are not really citizens so much as we are still subjects of the Brit.....
» 2/02/2008 7:27:46 AM I am unaware of the exact amount of charitable support provided by the U.S to anyone else .....
» 1/02/2008 10:45:31 PM Hear hear Desipis, I agree with pretty much everything you have said. Col Rouge, "I .....
» 31/01/2008 9:01:08 PM Hmm. The righties on this forum seem determined to simply ignore the charges: namely, the .....
» 30/01/2008 8:45:53 PM "State governments give money to state schools only". This is incorrect - in QLD.....
» 24/01/2008 7:46:26 PM I agree with the author. The insistence that workchoices was responsable for creating jobs.....
» 3/05/2007 11:09:49 PM Actually Yabby, I do not reside in any "industrial backwater". I live in boomin.....
» 3/05/2007 9:40:44 PM Why not let them choose indeed, Yabby? As it stands now, choice is something that those i.....
» 3/05/2007 8:13:56 PM "If I was unskilled, not very good at my job, not very good at negotiation, I might w.....
» 2/05/2007 5:58:03 AM So the removal of a 12 month old IR policy that has thus far had zero positive effect on p.....
» 30/04/2007 8:56:56 PM Gday Belly! Nice to see you here too mate. Your presence is missed over at the other foru.....
» 25/04/2007 9:00:12 PM "At the end of the day, labour is just another commodity like money, grain, just abou.....
» 24/04/2007 10:51:48 PM communicat, do you run a business? If so, please give me the details so I can post them .....
» 24/04/2007 8:51:04 PM Rhian, We may just have to agree to disagree on the issue of globalization reducing pove.....
» 23/04/2007 8:23:30 PM The supporters of the dying ideology that we call globalism have a bad habit of fudging st.....
» 13/04/2007 7:09:55 PM Keith, will you put your daughter on an AWA when she comes to work for you in the face of .....
» 23/01/2007 6:21:04 AM volition, The free, unfettered market that government does not interfere in is a neo-con.....
» 22/01/2007 6:10:31 AM tapp, sorry mate, I should have put "qouting col rogue" beside that comment, I.....
» 21/01/2007 4:24:14 PM Col Rogue, "Why should government organise a training programme for you?". Pre.....
» 19/01/2007 10:42:59 PM col rouge, Good on you for learning a new skill. We unskilled should all get off our bac.....
» 19/01/2007 9:16:41 PM tapp, you argument that being "forced to accept" four weeks annual leave, as .....
» 18/01/2007 9:39:40 PM tapp, what has been lost is the RIGHT to four weeks annual leave. If he wants four, how .....
» 18/01/2007 8:10:00 PM The entire notion of a worker being free to choose to cash out leave is built on a fundame.....
» 12/11/2006 10:16:17 PM Who does regulate the market which is allowed to operate in this country? Us or the World .....
» 10/11/2006 8:32:14 PM Rob, I think you are fairly accurate in what you are saying. We do seem to bounce back a.....
» 10/11/2006 7:54:57 PM Now it remains to be seen if this lot will be any better. I dbout that they could do worse.....
» 7/11/2006 7:37:30 PM What is the worst thing that can possibly go wrong at a coal-fired power station? Compare .....
» 6/11/2006 8:43:46 PM col, Please refer back to my last post, the key points seem to have escaped you. Since.....
» 5/11/2006 8:37:39 PM col, I have worked at a public school for ten years. I eat lunch every day with people w.....
» 2/11/2006 9:13:28 PM ColRouge, As usual, you are half right about a lot of things. Private schools do inde.....
» 1/11/2006 10:50:25 PM Tristan, there is nothing wrong with any of these things, indeed most of them would be d.....
» 29/10/2006 10:14:23 PM TurnRightThenLeft, Sorry mate, I did realise the flavour of your comment, I didn't mean t.....
» 29/10/2006 9:13:17 PM This Friday just gone, I attended a debate on the topic of workchoices, held in the centra.....
» 26/10/2006 9:49:32 PM TurnRightThenLeft, I hope your Orwellian vision of the future never comes to be realised......
» 25/10/2006 10:22:36 PM Howard's assault on people's rights at work is certainly no vote winner. Workchoices is de.....
» 25/10/2006 9:37:48 PM nationalist conservative, I am not sure where you get your information from either. From .....
» 24/10/2006 8:41:13 PM nationalist conservative, why do you think that comparing Australia to the U.S and other .....
» 23/10/2006 9:11:28 PM Rhian, You won't find any government official claiming that is their policy to reduce w.....
» 23/10/2006 8:41:38 PM Interesting article with some good points. Canberra having near full control over the stat.....
» 19/10/2006 10:01:08 PM Lack of interest in activley participating in the democratic process was alive and well ba.....
» 19/10/2006 9:30:45 PM col, you say you have never met an employee who struggles for the good of the majority. We.....
» 17/10/2006 8:08:44 PM On reading the last post by col, all I can say is I agree with hedgehog......
» 15/10/2006 9:51:27 PM Having followed the unfolding of workchoices closely since its unveiling, I am seeing what.....
» 15/10/2006 6:13:33 PM peff you too make some good points bit I remain sceptical of the claim of record low unem.....
» 13/10/2006 10:52:12 PM peff, I think you miss the point. Both this government and the previous one have redefine.....
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