When
I can be bothered with the utter inanity, not to mention the
manipulative bias, of the mainstream media I can't help but notice a few
things. So it came about this week with both leaders toying with this
lovely little "spendometer" quote Bill came up with earlier in the week
and Mr Originality Silvertail Turnbull tossed around all over the place.
Especially
during an election you have to stay focused and keep your eye out for
"the old smokescreen trick" whereby one or other of the contenders makes
a big noise about something of little consequence so that the voters
attention is drawn there and you can sneak one in on them while their
attention is blinded. This spendometer circus has many hallmarks of the
old smokescreen trick. Allow me to explain.
"Jobs and Growth" is a
plank common to both ALP and LNP election platforms. It is a fact of
life provable by any source of evidence you choose, that you don't
create jobs without spending money, you do not grow the output of the
economy without spending money, you do not improve anything without
spending money. So all this bickering, name-calling and kerfuffle about
spendometers and great big taxes, and tax-and-spend policies is just a
smokescreen. So let's clear the air a bit and blow the smoke away.
This
election is not about whether or not the money should be spent. If you
want jobs and growth you must spend the money. This election is about
who will make the decisions about where this money is allocated. Will it
be through rational researched decisions by a democratically elected
government under universal suffrage and compulsory voting, or will it be
through blind faith in the goodwill and wisdom of the 1% financial
elite with no rational conscious input from anyone else (an elite who
are proven tax-cheats via the Panama papers) via massive tax cuts to big
business and the most-wealthy segment of society.
The
Liberal/National Coalition has little relevance in fact. They are a
throwback to the Liberal party of England in the second half of the 19th
century. The worldview of Benjamin Disraeli and Palmerston. Their
approach is laissez-faire trickle down innaction summed up by: "cut
taxes to the wealthy, so the poor have to pay for everything so that
they are reduced to such a state of retched desperation that they are
too busy trying to keep body and soul together to rise up, an do nothing
else which would interfere with the market making all your decisions
for you." Their tendency is to do nothing. Their promises were all
proven to be nonsense last election as they were reneged upon the minute
they gained power.
So in reality, this election represents the
final scramble for ownership of the last remaining scarce economic
resources remaining in this country within the ranks of the 0.1% wealth
bracket. Between the TPP and ChiFTA the present government has devided
our country up and arranged for it to be sold piecemeal to the countries
on the Pacific rim especially China, and their tax cuts for the
wealthiest free up the capital to make these purchases. Treasonous
whelps like Gina Rhinehardt exploit the 457 visa scheme to import
slave-wage-labour in preference to hiring Australian Nationals.
This
election is a battle between Big business, represented by the LNP, and
Australian Society, represented by every other party, but with the ALP
as the only other party capable of forming government.
Finally I
would like to put the final nail in the coffin of this absurd myth about
the LNP being better managers of the economy than the ALP. I draw your
attention to the cold hard facts accumulated by Stephen Koukoulas, Managing
Director of Market Economics, a macroeconomic advisory firm.
Advisor to Dun & Bradstreet. Research Fellow Per Capita. This
government has driven the economy into a deep dark hole from which it
may take us a long time to recover. Every economic signpost indicator
has gone backward in a big way since the LNP came to power. Policies
followed by this government almost the
precise opposite effect they say it will. It's the "We will create jobs
by closing down the car-making industry" absurdity. Everything they say
is tainted in this way.
We seek that rare personality of unlimited value which
is incorruptible to the core; who will laugh in the face of a million
dollar bribe and toss the briber physically back out into the slimy
gutter they emerged from.
A person of rusted-on integrity and charisma, who feels what is right like having a sixth sense.
A true leader to take us out of our LNP-Imposed NEOLIBERAL NIGHTMARE into the shining light of the Keysian Capitalist Utopia.
Is
Tony Windsor such a leader? He does have the integrity, tested under
the hellfire of the Gillard Hung Parliament. What of the other traits
mentioned above.
Is Bill Shorten such a leader. He shows promise but is somewhat of an unknown quantity as he has not been tested.
