Moving Forward Together

[Logique]

'Moving Forward Together'.
We'll hear this slogan many times as the Fed election draws on. Is there a historical link by any chance? With thanks to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Great Leap Forward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1961 which ostensibly aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization,[citation needed] industrialization, and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages.

Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, social pressure, and violence. Food rationing was introduced, in some cases leaving rural Chinese with less than 250g (half a jin, 8.82 ounces) of grain per day. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, triggering a widespread famine that resulted in possibly more than 20 million deaths.[1]

 

[springhill]

This should probably be added to the jargon thread.
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16774&highlight=jargon

 

[CanOz]

'Moving Forward Together'.
We'll hear this slogan many times as the Fed election draws on. Is there a historical link by any chance? With thanks to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

China has moved away from this in a huge way now. Agribusiness is developing into broadacre farming led by investment into large scale operations to leverage scale. The small farmers are leasing their plots together like a large quilt, to larger growers with agronomy support, and the latest in technology allowing them to generate higher yields per hectacre than ever before.

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[Logique]

Told you. Used 24 times in a single speech recently.

 

[Buckfont]

I suggest that the labor party may have pinched the idea from Toyota.

Watch this ... all the way to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoBfpm1zHg.

 

[Mofra]

China has moved away from this in a huge way now.

They are introducing a mining tax in the Western Provinces though

 

[skc]

I suggest that the labor party may have pinched the idea from Toyota.

Watch this ... all the way to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoBfpm1zHg.

I am pretty sure Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons used the same catch phrase in his election campaign (for mayor of Springfield).

 

[Buckfont]

skg, couldn`t find Sideshow bob, but came across this...

Could be attributed to another thread but it is pertinent here. Does Labor need divine intervention? Enjoy this powerful song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PilfgFt-S4

 

[easylikesunday]

I reckon that alien on the Simpsons had a better election speech.

"We must move forward, not backward. Upward, not forward.. and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom"

 

[noco]

As Andrew Bolts says if you have a fire caused by Labor's Home Insulation progrm, open the front door and 'move forward'.

Joolya don't wanna talk about BER or HIP any more, I wonder why????

 

[Calliope]

Joolya don't wanna talk about BER or HIP any more, I wonder why????

She says the auditor's report on the BER scandal will be released before the election. What are the odds that it will absolve her of all blame?

 

[GumbyLearner]

I suggest that the labor party may have pinched the idea from Toyota.

Watch this ... all the way to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoBfpm1zHg.

No, I think they pinched it from the workers over at the Mitsubishi plant in Adelaide.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...tsubishi-factory/story-e6frea83-1225893411774

Chinese paid $1.90 an hour to dismantle Mitsubishi factory in Adelaide.

CHINESE labourers were flown in to dismantle heavy machinery at the former Mitsubishi car plant and paid as little as $1.90 an hour for the backbreaking work, it has been revealed.

The 24 temporary migrant workers were housed in dormitory-style accommodation in the Adelaide Hills while completing the eight-month job, and were allegedly underpaid more than $131,000 by their employer, a Chinese state-owned company.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched Federal Court action against their employer, the Chinese-registered China SANAN Engineering Construction Corporation, alleging two breaches of workplace relations laws.

Fair Work Ombudsman executive director Michael Campbell will allege China SANAN paid the workers between 2005 and 6603 yuan a month, or from $1.90 to $6.75 an hour.

At the time, the Australian federal minimum wage was $14.31 an hour.

China SANAN brought the Chinese workers to Australia to dismantle and remove an automotive press formerly used by Mitsubishi Motors Australia. They worked at the Tonsley Park site from October 29, 2009, until the end of June this year.


I'm definitely not voting for the ALP or Gillard this election when they encourage this kind of ****.

 

[Julia]

These letters to "The Australian" reflect what I think a lot of voters are thinking and we have more than four weeks to go!

My father, Bob Menzies, used to say that in politics you can never rpeat anything too often.
I must concede that Julia Gillard has proved him wrong.

If I hear that terrible expression once more, or see a politician holding a baby at a shopping centre, I'm going to move forward over a very tall cliff.

 

[nioka]

I have just returned to the home page and read "Moving forward together by Julia" and thought we were getting a politicians point of view... Wrong Julia ?????

 

[noco]

Joolya reminds me of the 'Pied Piper' moooving foorward to the the river with all the 'RATS' following her only to fall in the water and drown.
If she gets relected she will move us forward into more debacles, more debt and more stuff ups. Her history speaks for itself.

 

[Wysiwyg]

At the time, the Australian federal minimum wage was $14.31 an hour.

At this rate, in 10 years time the average wage will be 20 bucks per hour, a loaf of bread 5 dollars, a litre of milk 3 dollars and a litre of guzzolene 2.50 dollars.

Higher wages = higher costs or higher costs = higher wages.