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MrBurns · 5 March 2012

Clive Palmer got it right, Swan is an imbecile, you cant discriminate against race or sex but you can when someone is successful.

Swan talking about a fairer society is just his way of saying, if you're smart enough to make money in Australia we'll take it off you, that's fair isn't it ?

If he wants to make Australia a better place resign and let some competent people take over.

orr · 5 March 2012

MrBurns said:
Clive Palmer got it right, Swan is an imbecile, you cant discriminate against race or sex but you can when someone is successful.

Swan talking about a fairer society is just his way of saying, if you're smart enough to make money in Australia we'll take it off you, that's fair isn't it ?

If he wants to make Australia a better place resign and let some competent people take over.

And you can point to, or can deconstruct any part of the essay to confirm your and clive's view of it's 'imbecility'

Calliope · 5 March 2012

MrBurns said:
Clive Palmer got it right, Swan is an imbecile, you cant discriminate against race or sex but you can when someone is successful.

Clive Palmer is a Living Treasure. Swan had never done anything productive in his whole life. This ugly sucker is indulging in the politics of envy.

Those lefties who want to put down Palmer's nomination as a LT might consider some of the ratbags who already are members, along with the usual suspects.

Pat O'Shane
Bob Brown
Julian Burnside
Peter Garrett
Germaine Greer.

Knobby22 · 5 March 2012

Calliope said:
Clive Palmer is a Living Treasure. Swan had never done anything productive in his whole life. This ugly sucker is indulging in the politics of envy.

Those lefties who want to put down Palmer's nomination as a LT might consider some of the ratbags who already are members, along with the usual suspects.

Pat O'Shane
Bob Brown
Julian Burnside
Peter Garrett
Germaine Greer.

I would classify Palmer as a ratbag also, just a different colour.
That "National Treasure" award is completely devalued.
We have honors for people who really do good and this is just a side circus.

Kylie got one along with Palmer but knew it for what it was and had the sense not to turn up.

Calliope · 5 March 2012

Knobby22 said:
I would classify Palmer as a ratbag also, just a different colour.
That "National Treasure" award is completely devalued.
We have honors for people who really do good and this is just a side circus.

Kylie got one along with Palmer but knew it for what it was and had the sense not to turn up.

I agree Knobby. It is just a circus, and the ratbags in it do devalue the high regard for the notable achievers.

MrBurns · 5 March 2012

Don't know what the National Treasure thing is all about and it's a bit sus that Palmer got an award, I bet he laughed but he's spot on about Swan, who does he think he is denegrating people because they're successful, it's socialism at it's best, Swan is a useless dufus.

Calliope · 5 March 2012

A modest poetic tribute to our former PM and Foreign Minister, doubled as an ode to the circumstances leading to the nomination of his successor (with apologies to all poets, living and dead). (By Henry Ergas)

Who killed KR?
Not Bob Carr.
When Kevin tumbled,
Arbib crumbled,
Julia fumbled,
Wayne rumbled,
Smith grumbled,
Crean bumbled,
Joel jumbled,
And Gillard, humbled,
gave Carr
The cigar.
How bizarre.

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/henryergas/index.php/theaustralian/comments/who_killed_kr/

IFocus · 5 March 2012

Swan is just calling out the big money and rightly so it was a good performance today at the press club by Swan not that I am his fan.

Of course in WA Charley Court (WA premier liberal doyen for those that don't know) greatest arch enemy none other than Lang Hancock for the same reasons Swan talks about.

joea · 5 March 2012

Swan was at the press club today.
They must have put 3 valium in his coffee, as he was not sweating and attempting to 'blow" a blood vessel!!
Yep! Tony is the problem, as the rich miners are his mates!.
joea

sptrawler · 5 March 2012

Well if it so easy to become rich like Forrest, I can't wait to see Wayne put his neck on the line to make the big time.
No much easier to sit back in Canberra and get a pension.
For every Forrest there is a heap more have gone into business and lost everything.
That's why I always worked for wages, I never had the guts.
But I don't sit back and criticise those that have made it.
Actualy Swans behaviour is becoming a bit weird, using the public forum to denigrate Rudd then the following week going into a rant over mining magnates.
Maybe he is losing it. LOL
You can only punch above your weight for so long.

IFocus · 5 March 2012

IFocus said:
Swan is just calling out the big money and rightly so it was a good performance today at the press club by Swan not that I am his fan.

Of course in WA Charley Court (WA premier liberal doyen for those that don't know) greatest arch enemy none other than Lang Hancock for the same reasons Swan talks about.

The issue is of course is that they not advocate for themselves which is fair enough but the message they use is its in Australians interest which is rubbish as its so they can further their own.

MrBurns · 5 March 2012

sptrawler said:
.
Maybe he is losing it. LOL

I think he has, what a hide abusing Australians who have made it, did they do it illegally ? No.
The Swan rant sounds very much like communist propaganda and it's right in our living rooms, what an outrage.

sptrawler · 5 March 2012

IFocus said:
The issue is of course is that they not advocate for themselves which is fair enough but the message they use is its in Australians interest which is rubbish as its so they can further their own.

That's very true IFocus, however there aren't many inside or outside politics that aren't self serving.
There are very few people in business that are there for other peoples benefit.
The same applies to government and unions also.

joea · 5 March 2012

comment from the Australian on Swan's speech at the press club.

philj of perth Posted at 4:30 PM Today

Gee Wayne you are a bit slow. You think the average working joe is as thick as you. Do you think they care how much money Clive Palmer or Twiggy Forrest, who employ hundreds of thousands of people like themselves makes? What they remember mate, are the lies told by Julia Gillard on carbon tax. They see the deals you people have made with the insidious green party who would have us all back living in caves. They see the shonky deals made with a few misfit independents in order to hold on to power. The billions of dollars wasted on pipe dreams and the billions more being borrowed from China and the Arabs which will take generations to pay back. They see the infighting and backstabbing which is the Labor party and most of all they see the Australian Dream, which kicking you and your lot out on your collective backsides at the earliest opportunity.

joea

bellenuit · 5 March 2012

joea said:
They see the deals you people have made with the insidious green party who would have us all back living in caves. They see the shonky deals made with a few misfit independents in order to hold on to power. The billions of dollars wasted on pipe dreams and the billions more being borrowed from China and the Arabs which will take generations to pay back. They see the infighting and backstabbing which is the Labor party and most of all they see the Australian Dream, which kicking you and your lot out on your collective backsides at the earliest opportunity.

And Wayne has a strategy to combat that too. It's called press censorship and if he, Labor and The Greens have their way, "they", the people, won't see any of these things either. Just the good news as dictated by the left.

IFocus · 5 March 2012

joea said:
comment from the Australian on Swan's speech at the press club.

philj of perth Posted at 4:30 PM Today

Gee Wayne you are a bit slow. You think the average working joe is as thick as you. Do you think they care how much money Clive Palmer or Twiggy Forrest, who employ hundreds of thousands of people like themselves makes? What they remember mate, are the lies told by Julia Gillard on carbon tax. They see the deals you people have made with the insidious green party who would have us all back living in caves. They see the shonky deals made with a few misfit independents in order to hold on to power. The billions of dollars wasted on pipe dreams and the billions more being borrowed from China and the Arabs which will take generations to pay back. They see the infighting and backstabbing which is the Labor party and most of all they see the Australian Dream, which kicking you and your lot out on your collective backsides at the earliest opportunity.

joea

Gee wizz fancy the Oz blurring the argument of self interest.

sails · 5 March 2012

Calliope said:
What is the link?

Here's a link - and contains other links in the article:

Senator Mark Arbib resigns amid speculation of his shady financial dealings and involvement in the Craig Thomson cover-up.

sails · 5 March 2012

IFocus said:
Gee wizz fancy the Oz blurring the argument of self interest.

That comment appears to have come from a reader... you know - the people otherwise known as "VOTERS"...

Honestly, all the smart comments coming from you leftie lot who are definitely in the minority in this country beggar belief. Methinks you will have egg so thick on your faces when the voters in this country get an opportunity to show their utter contempt for this unwanted minority.

Yeah, those reader comments pretty much sum up the anger that is out there.

MrBurns · 5 March 2012

Craig Thompson, Mark Arbib, liars pimps sleezbags, the anger out there is fast turning to outright fury.

noco · 5 March 2012

sails said:
Here's a link - and contains other links in the article:

Senator Mark Arbib resigns amid speculation of his shady financial dealings and involvement in the Craig Thomson cover-up.

Thanks Sails. The info on Mark Arbib was emailed to me by a friend, who received from one of his friends.

I trust Julia and Caliope have noted the link..T'was well worth a read.

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