The tyranny of one party rule needs to stop. Republicans are as crooked and greedy as the Demorcats. It’s sad, but the best we can hope for is neither party ever control both the Presidency and Congress. You will end up with Detroit but on a grand scale.
Welcome to the hood.
hahahahahahaha
Maybe from my perspective the way you phrased somethings implies sexism. I’m not even going to attempt to explain to a Lib supporter how their economic management went wrong.
You just seek any chance you can to be offended.
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Hey guys!!
Not being a smartarse or trying to sound like the prongs police force but this thread is titled ‘Australia is fucked’ and is regarding the recent sacking of K Rudd and installment of Comrade Julia Gillard.
It’s not about Obama or US politics in general- please don’t hijack this worthy cause of mine.
Once again, yr contributions are always welcome but try and stay relatively on topic.
Cheers.
Peligro,
Australia is not fucked
The way Rudd was dumped is a disgrace
But we’re better for being under this Labor administration than anything the Liberal party has had to offer since the latter years of the Howard government
You need only consider some of Abbott or Bishop’s quotes to see how unfit the Liberal administration is for leadership of this nation.
And don’t get me started on Victoria. Half the problems we’ve got to put up with directly correlate with Kennett’s reckless privatisation; necessary, but administered with no consideration for the long term.
What happened to the legions of people in the ‘Kevin 07’ shirts though? In my mind a lot of them will feel miffed at the turn of events, and be less likely to vote for Gillard. My fear is that they have handed the country to Abbott.
What happened to the legions of people in the ‘Kevin 07’ shirts though?
Probably earning a well earned rest.
In my mind a lot of them will feel miffed at the turn of events, and be less likely to vote for Gillard. My fear is that they have handed the country to Abbott.
Yeah…cos that’d be a ‘disaster’ right.
Instead we get this Commie bitch redhead, this union puppet and Socialist mouthpiece, this assassin and ursurper. How fickle the public are - how easily tempted we are to make crucial judgements based on image and popularity. Which is more or less how Krudd was voted in to begin with.
Remember, Gillard signed off on Rudd’s crippling policies and backflips - his rollercoaster ride of populist politics, out of control budget blowouts and disaster prone schemes which made him the laughing stock of the whole country. She’s every bit as bad as the guy we just hoisted out.
What the fuck do you think will change now that Krudd’s little pet sidekick is wearing the pants now? Her and her party are a fucking disgrace and a blight on our nation. A pack of trained baboons could do a better job.
Remember how she gushed over Latham, that psycho bully boy prone to fits of rage so intense he once snapped a guy’s arm and whose wife fled in the middle of the night just to escape him? How assured she was that he was the best man for the job. And what a fucking disaster that turned out to be.
When the fuck will some people wake up and vote with some sense. It’s as if we’ve voted in a group of inept, obnoxios council workers who haven’t the fucking smarts between them to run a coffee shop let alone a country.
Really.
But we’re better for being under this Labor administration than anything the Liberal party has had to offer since the latter years of the Howard government
But all the Labor govt seem to do is promise and not deliver. They tell us one thing and then backflip and do another. Where do they stand on issues? - it’s hard to tell seeing as they keep changing their mind every 15 minutes. Rudd just couldn’t make up his mind. He was so fickle and so aware of his own image. He was more concerned with popularity than with running the country. For example - what does he do when the insulation crisis threatens to derail his career? He appears on (Labor friendly) Good News Week to boost his flagging ego. What a dud. What a cretin. What a show pony preening peacock. Do we want a celebrity or do we want a leader?
Empty promises, symbolic gestures and vapid ego is all this mob seem to have going for them. And that’s putting it nicely.
And don’t anyone feed me that crap about how Rudd kept us out of the recession - bullshit. It was the Australian public as a whole whom you have to thank for that as they did not panic and stop spending like so many other nations did. Oh and thank China for buying our coal. Thank the many nations who kept buying our uranium for their nuclear power plants. And thank the Howard govt for having the smarts and the sense to set aside around $25 billion for times like these - something this present govt doesn’t seem to acknowledge.
We have the same govt in office now as we’ve had for the past two and a half years - only difference is the public have a new ‘celebrity’ to fawn over.
You need only consider some of Abbott or Bishop’s quotes to see how unfit the Liberal administration is for leadership of this nation.
Which are?
You only need to consider this governments recent fuck ups and out and out lies to see how unfit the Labor party are to govern this nation.
And don’t get me started on Victoria. Half the problems we’ve got to put up with directly correlate with Kennett’s reckless privatisation; necessary, but administered with no consideration for the long term.
Examples?
Empty promises, symbolic gestures and vapid ego is all this mob seem to have going for them. And that’s putting it nicely.
Spot on mate.
It’s the same old, same old. The Kruddster was all spin and do nothing empty promises coupled with an egomaniacal and vindictive personality - in short a one man tyrannical government coasting along on a wave of self righteous ego and bloated self importance.
And where was Julia while all this was taking place? Why, right behind him of course, applauding every disaster - lying at every turn until dignity had to be salvaged and she comes out with a feeble “We lost our way”. No kidding Julia. Information THAT FUCKING COULD HAVE COME IN HANDY A LONG TIME AGO.
And lost their way they did: Huge debts, horrendous mismanagement of funds, backflips on Emmissions Trading, a refugee policy that changes almost weekly, pandering to minority groups, pandering to greedy union bosses and their cronies, empty apologetic gestures of sympathy, a ‘reformed’ health system that will do fuck all other than redistribute funds to federal administrators other than state ones, an eduction ‘revolution’ that was nothing other than a nice little earner for the construction industry, Peter Garret, Penny Wong …the list is endless. Talk about incompetence.
Who is running this country anyway - the people or the trade unions? Sometimes I wonder, I really do.
Oh well. Honeymoons don’t last long Julia. Soon the public will see through your the thin veil of euphoria and realise they have been conned by the cult of celebrity YET AGAIN and then it’s curtains for you. The leftist media has hyped you into orbit but you’ll have to come down sooner or later.
Do we want a celebrity or do we want a leader?
Not to nit pick here but these are often times one and the same. In order to get folks to follow you, you have to have charisma and celebrities have loads of charisma.
The leftist media has hyped you into orbit but you’ll have to come down sooner or later.
Is it really a “leftist media?” We hear that shit all the time over here in the states and none of our Media is even close to “Leftist” (the only thing close is MSNBC but they barely swing left but compared to every thing else they look like commie bastards) It’s all run by conservatives… G.E, Disney, Rupert Murdock, Vicaom, Business Conglomerates.
As a matter of fact it’s so NOT lefty here that when Obama proposed bringing back the equal time laws, all of the “News” stations had a fit!!! You’d think with “how completely leftist” our media is (claims the conservatives) that conservatives would love equal time, that way they could get their message out amidst all of the leftist noise. But no they hit the airwaves in full force to shut that down! Odd considering considering our media is so liberal, you’d figure they would want a voice too… even more strange that they could get on the airwaves to even spread that message!
Late,
grmpysmrf
Alinsky tactic #5 - “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
Whose ridiculing what?
Alinsky tactic #5 - “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
oh god. You don’t watch Glenn Beck, do you?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11048968
So hung parliaments are all the rage now.
That or both contenders are hung
[cool]
facepalm
A swing of 5% against Dillard and her socialist cronies - which is good but not good enough.
Fuck, I can’t believe how fucking stupid Victorians are.
Yeah, and Abbott and Hockey have been totally consistent with each other’s budget announcements and costings… let alone with handing them in.
If the Liberals get in, they’ll just ride Labor’s coattails and cut funding left right and center to satisfy the ‘me me me’ mentality of the upper middle class with two kids, four cars and a two story house in the leafy suburbs they generally seem to appeal to.
If the Liberals get in, they’ll just ride Labor’s coattails and cut funding left right and center to satisfy the ‘me me me’ mentality of the upper middle class with two kids, four cars and a two story house in the leafy suburbs they generally seem to appeal to.
Your liberals sound like U.S. conservatives.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Yep. They are.
They’re called Liberals basically because of the economic principles their party is based upon. Which aren’t so bad, except even the old guard in their party admits these days they’ve taken too far. Such leanings were leading us down the same path as you guys until the Labor government was elected in.
<waits for a massive flaming from Peligro. Come on baby, do me good>
If the Liberals get in, they’ll just ride Labor’s coattails and cut funding left right and center to satisfy the ‘me me me’ mentality of the upper middle class with two kids, four cars and a two story house in the leafy suburbs they generally seem to appeal to.
If? If? Cut funding to who? When? How much? Who is going to miss out? That’s an interesting theoretical scenario.
Riding Labor’s coattails? What the fuck? Remember the Labor Party were left a massive surplus ($25 billion) by the previous economically sound govt and managed to blow it all and end up with an $85 billion deficit three years later.
Remember 1992. 12% unemployment and a deficit of close to $100 billion. The ‘recession we had to have’? We didn’t need stimulus then and we didn’t need it now. We were kept afloat by the VERY INDUSTRY that Labor wants to pillage in order to curb the disastrous economic situation they dug for themselves. Fucking imbeciles. You trust that lot with yr hard earned and you’ve got rocks in yer head.
All they do is look after their fatcat union thug pals and give handouts and freebies to shut people up - while the economy goes down the plughole. You wait and see what happens when the mining boom takes a dive. It’s tipped to nosedive sometime in the next two years. Then all that reckless spending will come back to haunt us. Wait and see what happens to Australian jobs when iron ore/coal prices take a hammering in the foreign market.
All we hear from the Labor Party and their propaganda ministers is how much they do for ‘working families’? Go and talk to all the ‘working families’ out there and you’ll indeed be faced with different perspective. Lies, lies, lies. Spin, spin, spin. ‘We’re looking after you and everything is going according to plan’ Party. What a bunch of bullshit. All the economic adviser we deal with on a daily basis think Labor are an economists nightmare.
The working classes are conned into thinking that Labor has them in their best interests. And then they go and elect the wealthiest prime minister in Australian history to represent them. How the fuck did that show pony retard best represent working families? The cost of living has skyrocketed under these morons and will continue to do so if they are re-elected.
You do realise that all that cash splash around last year (around $60 billion) has to be repaid? With interest!
Man, I hate Gillard.
satisfy the ‘me me me’ mentality of the upper middle class with two kids, four cars and a two story house in the leafy suburbs they generally seem to appeal to.
It’s the upper middle classes who vote Labor in Victoria!!!
Where have you been the last couple of years? The demographic to prosper most in the last 5 years are builders/tradesmen. They’re earning small fortunes and vote (almost unaminously) Labor! Toorak is over-run with plumbers and electricians. These guys earn more than my dad who has 40 years experience as a financial advisor.
White collar is no longer the go, buddy. There’s little to no money to be made unless you are the CEO of a large company. My tradesman friends earn twice what I earn and they live in nice houses in leafy suburbs and all HATE the Liberals.
It’s a fallacy that the rich vote Liberal and the working classes vote Labor. Doesn’t apply anymore. Not like it used to.
What yr trying to sell sounds like ol’ fashioned petty class hatred.
Man, I wish I was up on australian politics, you both make sound arguments id love to take a side. But it ain’t happening today!.
Late,
grmpysmrf