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Also it now looks like QLD is a tad unsettled after ALP sacked a member. I think this now gives them and Libs same amount of seats with Katters party holding the balance.
Katter is known as a very effective Pollie will be I interrsring to see how he uses this new power.
Wages for the majority of Australians have been falling for over thirty years.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
The average wage has managed to increase but only because the top 10% has increased substantially to more than offset losses at the lower levels.
Overall, productivity has increased much faster than wages and that increase has been taken up by the proportion of incomes going to profits becoming larger.
In the short term that's great news for business owners.
In the long terms it's a disaster because if wages fall so does spending.
The solution [and its a bad one] is to rely on households to spend more than they earn using credit.
This is the flawed logic behind surplus budgets being sustainable or indeed responsible.
You're doing it all wrong sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
This is who the power 'sell off' campaign is aimed at.
"When I was a kid bread was 20c a loaf now it's $3 THE EVIL CORPORATIONS ARE MAKING US POOR".
If you don't think like that then there's no need to worry.
Pv4 invalid vote - no longer can discuss and issues but i guess i cant either seeing that I didnt vote/cant/living over here. So we are even mate :P
oh the greens are you the Green Greens or the Red Greens debate....
I naturally am dissapointed in our lower hunter seats... In Upper Hunter you have a good bloke in Michael Johnsen...
As for independets taking votes away, there is a bit of a problem there re seat of maitland with penfold... But im not going to go into it.. Not worth anytime...
Positive result for the state for the lower hunter dissapointed.
It's a done deal the sell off. No marketing required.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
In less than a years time few if any people will be even talking about the sale or indeed the price of electricity.
As soon as the media move on to their next story so will the average person on the street.
It's a bit like how when timed local phone calls were mentioned around twenty years ago people were up in arms about it and said they would never allow it to happen.
Fast forward ten years or so and most of the population have embraced using mobile phones which effectively introduced timed local calls to the masses by stealth.
The stupidity of the population never ceases to amaze.
Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
good to see the telegraph taking premier overlord mike baird's resounding win well
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1227285338708
Quote:
WEALTHY residents helped deliver two inner-city seats to the Greens in Saturday’s election, forging a bizarre link with their spliff-smoking hippy pals in the Greens’ northern NSW town of Nimbin
i seriously don't understand the point/angle of that article at all
The Greens hate the rich.Quote:
Originally Posted by parksey
The rich voted for the Greens.
I can only assume there's a line in there comparing it to the Jews voting for Hitler or something.
DT addressing ALL the big issues.
(Don't worry the other mob had a feminist moaning how offended she was that Abbott ate an onion or something).
I hate everyone.
Just stick to reading the Foz. Much better for you.
In Germany it's well know the Greens are a party for the richQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
Greens have always been conservatives when it comes to their ideology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skirt Boy
Mass unemployment and risng household debt appear to be the Greens solution to everything.
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/...-1227285244566Quote:
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has launched a new jobs network at Simonds Stadium this morning.
The Government has committed $5 billion to establish jobactive, which aims to help the unemployed find work and assist employees in securing suitable jobseekers.
From July 1, 66 organisations will deliver one or more jobactive services to job seekers and employers across Australia.
The Government want to ensure there are clearer incentives to ensure employment service providers are focused on better preparing job seekers to meet the needs of local employers and helping people to find and keep a job.
Service providers will no longer receive ‘job placement’ payments. The rules around training have also been tightened to ensure that job seekers are not being sent to training, for training’s sake.
The announcement comes after a Geelong Advertiser report on unemployment surging to a four-year high in Geelong’s northern suburbs, reaching almost 20 per cent in the final months of 2014.
Long story Short. It's the failed JobsNetwork Mark III and an attempt to blame the unemployed and most vulnerable people in society for the macroeconomic failures of every Australian government since 1972.
Governments used to be concerned with full employment now they are concerned with full employability. In other words government is investing in training people for jobs that simply do not exist once again.
One hundred dogs trying to find ten bones would be a fair description of the new scheme.
the vote in balmain and newtown is clearly aimed at westconnex. it's a donkey of a road, and a terrible solution and the voters know itQuote:
Greens have always been conservatives when it comes to their ideology.
Mass unemployment and risng household debt appear to be the Greens solution to everything.
Yeah everything I read was about it being against that road. Was Labor in favour of it as well? Is that why they didn't get the vote?Quote:
Originally Posted by q-money
to be honest i hardly saw a labor or liberal stooge at any of the polling booths. i know verity firth was the labor candidate in balmain but I haven't got a monkeys as to who it was in newtown
i know who the greens candiate was though (jenny leong aka fake penny wong)
the greens hustled super hard for these seats, i saw old mate jamie parker's enormous head out there every few days in glebe
i also voted for him just to piss off MFKS
Nothing to brag about being party to these clowns destroying the nation with their nutcase policies and agendasQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
:rof:
i reckon your mates in the big end of town might already be doing a pretty good job of that themselves without the homosex and global warmings and the like
i don't think it's the greens you should be worrying about m8
could you imagine if brandis got a hold of the member's metadata?
*search stubbins
*search kill stubbins
*location track/MFKS/root/stubbins
*MFKS stationary in prone position on grassy knoll
*search kaleQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
*search no not that rabbit food Kale, the proper Kale.
*search michael bridges birth certificate Donald trump can jet fuel melt industrial steel
None of them in the big end of town are my mates either.Quote:
Originally Posted by q-money
Don't forget I hate everyone :rof:
Just have more hate for Stubbins Middleby Gypos Lefty Apoligists and Plastic Fans :thumbsup:
Actually can someone tell me exactly where the 'big end of town' is?
Tried google maps but says 'no results'.
Someone told me once there was a 'Big Als' in the centre of town, but apparently that's not quite what am after.
Please help ta thanks.
Legit: Labor needs to get better phrases than 'the big end of town' and 'Ivory towers'.
85% of Lib pollies need to just stop talking altogether.
the knob endQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Follow the trail of brown paper bags, that should lead you there.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...14-143dh5.html
Dr Karl selling out to the Conservatives by spruiking their Intergenerational Report which looks like it was written in the late 18th century rather that in the last five years.
For a bloke that is scientifically trained he's certainly dropped the ball getting involved with this shit. The report is 99% ideology and the remaining one per cent a combination of AIDS and syphilis.
bhahahahahahaha yeah thought the same thing. Although to be fair, Dr Karl has been a capitalist swine for many a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Cant pay the bills with morals.
I was a bit sad to see those ads.
Sellout
where is your god now??????Quote:
Originally Posted by blackmac79
Anyone else been following those new laws in America. A few states most notably Indiana (?) have passed laws essentially making it legal to discriminate on the basis of religion.
Most high profile case so far was a pizza joint owner who (when interviewed) said she wouldn't cater a gay wedding. Mind you it was only a hypothetical question no one had actually asked her to cater a gay wedding.
This was met by the usual calls of bigotry and redneck but then the gay sympathisers went after the pizza joint big time, essentially forcing it to close its doors, because the owner had death threats.
But then some more citizens who hated the bully getting bullied then set up a kickstarter type fund to get them back in business and raised over $450,000 for the family.
Questions: sp who is in the right and who is in the wrong here?
Personally I think everyone comes off as kind of shitty from pollies making the laws, to people hiding behind religion, to people threatening people for having those religious views.
For more detail search 'Memories Pizza' (I've condensed it a lot).
Thoughts?
Edit: oh dear god I've just found out it's the subject of a Tim Blair article in the Telegraph today.
prob don't read Tim Blairs take on it.
The ability to segregate the market and discriminate between agents is the very foundation of the capitalist system.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Remove the ability to discriminate and the system collapses.
The oligarchs instruct the pollies to start a conflict between the other groups and then simply sit back and watch them fight over the crumbs.
How good are these protests.
effnics always have a good go now the Anglos get a turn against themselves. Bring that sh1t on.
btw govts are happy that some activity is taking the heat off em.
So you think the system is wrong?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Should they not be allowed to discriminate?
I'm interested to hear other peoples angles on this.
Was walking down George st one day when one of those "free Palestine" street marches was on.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
Decided to jump in and have a singalong for a few hundred meters.
Was very empowering. Good fun.
Would def have punched on if any Jews came at me.
Pareto Optimal conditions state that a distribution of wealth such that any redistribution or other change beneficial to one individual is detrimental to one or more others.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
If you believe that you know what the Pareto Optimal conditions are and how to optain them then you would allow racism.
If you do not know what the Pareto Optimal conditions are then you would legislate against them and accept what is referred to as a Theory of 2nd Best.
I'm pretty sure that the Pareto Optimal conditions are neither known or achievable so I'm all for legislation to rid the system of discrimination based on race, religion, and so on.
All those big words yet I still can't get into the Workers club in my cap.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Now THAT is some real discrimination right there Dunster!!!
I wouldn't drink their commie beer anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Penalty Rates. All this hoopla is why the minimum wage needs to be scrapped.
Keep the penalty rates but scrap the minimum wage.
Wha?Quote:
Originally Posted by Skirt Boy
Penalty rates in their current form are pretty dumb.
They need to be reevaluated (in conjunction with the minimum wage review).
But
People shutting their doors because they have to pay overs for maybe 5 days a year aren't running their businesses very well.
Complete and utter bullshit from business on penalty rates.
You want to open on public holidays to cater for customers and line your pockets with silver then pay your staff appropriately to compensate them for their sacrifice of giving up their public holiday
If you ain't making enough money to cover it then charge the customer more to compensate. They want the goods and services on a public holiday then they should pay the premium price for it.
If it don't add up then shut your doors and have the day off like every other **** cause that is what it is a Public Holiday
ARROGANT ****S