Right Wing attitudes to money

Once upon a time...

Published on August 22, 2004 By Champas Socialist In Politics

Amanda Vanstone appeared on ABC TV earlier this year and I must say that in many parts of her performance I was impressed and I came to understand and appreciate better her stance on several issues. She also managed to summarise the conservative party’s economic policy....

“Well, I realised fairly early on that I was more to the Liberal camp … because I liked some of the things the Labor Party wanted to do, but they were always getting stuck into business, saying, "That's just for profit. Profit. Isn't that dreadful." And I thought, "Hold on…If you're not making a profit, you're not employing people, you're not paying tax, THEY'RE not paying tax. … It seems to me they've missed a vital part of the equation here. They must be lunatics." And whereas the Liberal Party was quite in favour of building business, building opportunity, jobs, all that sort of stuff.”
–Amanda Vanstone

What a delightful fairytale Ms Vanstone spins for us. In Ms Vanstone and the Liberal Party’s Australia, we have the garden gnome presiding over the country, the charming goblin running the Treasury and the fairy Godmother extending the hand of friendship to our foreign neighbours. What a happy place this is where our most profitable business leaders are also the most self-sacrificing, profiteering only so that they can take on more and more full-time staff at higher and higher wages. Where the banks and the media moguls toil hard for profit so that they can throw their money forth to the workers of Australia out of the goodness of their hearts and we all live happily ever after. The Minister for Immigration, Ms Snow White Australia Policy would have us believe that Kerry Packer and Rupie Murdoch are our greatest philanthropists and that they can be left to serve the good of the people and they will act entirely benevolently, demonstrating a goodwill rivalled only by their hero, Jesus Christ. As we head down the Yellow Brick Road to the merry old Land of Oz, with the impostor wizard hiding behind the curtain, using his magic tricks and puffs of smoke to spin us lies about children overboard and the Wicked Witch of Iraq, the reality is that we are seeing the Australian fair go disappear in a red hot balloon, fuelled by Ms Vanstone’s speech.

Please Ms Vanstone, what story are you going to read to us today? Won’t you read us the one about the Three Little Pigs signing a Free Trade Agreement with the Big Bad Wolf?

Comments (Page 3)

Draginol

on Aug 29, 2004

cactoblaste: Your probably reading this from PoliticalMachine.com. articles from JoeUser.com, which is where most of the political content for polmachine.com come is where this post originated from.

But no matter how you slice it, Furry and Socialist aren't running around setting up public sites are they? They deride capitalism but despite how easy it is to set up even a basic website,they haven't. They rely on sites created by for profit companies made by people who are paid to develop them.

Champas Socialist

on Aug 29, 2004

Well if Pig Iron Bob Menzies could read this now he'd be well proud of you lot. It amazes me that the Conservatives are still trying to portray the Australian Labor Party as a bunch of Commies. I am rather angry that there are a few pinkos who have come in here and tried to appropriate my site for their benefit. I am arguing in favour of the ALP who are a Centre-Right team in favour of capitalism and in favour of profits.

The ALP that Vanstone was criticising in her comments does not argue that profit should be abolished. They are arguing that the system is more complicated than simply saying "Hey everyone, go make some profit" and then assuming this will create jobs. Australian workers need more protection from their Government than that. When big businesses are left to their own devices, their only motive becomes profit. And the closure of rural banks, our automated Telstra phone service, pathetic rural telephone services and the increasing level of insecurity for Australian workers proves that this cannot be the only motivation for capitalism.

We need a Government that hands back power to the Unions. Deregulation of unfair dismissal laws makes our system, well, unfair. We need a Government that backs superannuation and backs good health care systems. We need a Government that believes in our education and believes that one of the best ways to achieve economic prosperity is to cultivate the minds of our children.

In short, we need a Government that doesn't rely on simplistic notions of capitalism. We need a Government that isn't run by two bit morons like Howard and Vanstone. We need a Labor Party Government to ensure economic prosperity.

trina_p

on Aug 29, 2004

We need a Labor Party Government to ensure economic prosperity

October 9 - there's a pretty good chance we'll get one, or at least a new PM.

Furry Canary

on Aug 30, 2004

It amazes me that the Conservatives are still trying to portray the Australian Labor Party as a bunch of Commies.

Absolutely. As a Commie, I find it the very idea of being lumped in with the ALP deeply offensive.

Furry Canary

on Aug 30, 2004

Furry and Socialist aren't running around setting up public sites are they?

Well, I can't speak for Champas, but no - I'm not. And that proves the case for Capitalism how exactly, Draginol?

They rely on sites created by for profit companies made by people who are paid to develop them.

That's right. It's called subversion. HeeHeeHee!

As I said before, we have to use the means that are available to us to challenge the system, regardless of the origins of those means. The revolution will come, but please don't expect us to organise it according to YOUR perceptions of what we stand for.

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