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Sent to me by a friend.......do we know a government that fits this description??!!

INEPTOCRACY
(in-ep-toc-ra-cy)

A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
 
Ves said:
Yeah, still waiting for the prophecy to come true and for the world to end.
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Tell that to small business owners the end has come and gone and now it's just a long stretch of hell
 
Ves said:
Yeah, still waiting for the prophecy to come true and for the world to end. Perhaps it will happen when the Mayan calendar ends and Abbott will look like a genius?
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This mini budget sounds ominous. It must be time to pay for stupid spending by a stupid government.
Don't think it will be free plasmas and insulation, Waynes answer just keep upping taxes.
He couldn't run a garage sale.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/budget-shock-21b-shortfall-20121019-27wqj.html

He is finding out it's easier to spend money and big note yourself, than save it.
Oh I forgot, all he has to do, is hit up you and me. LOL
What a priceless bunch of goons.
 

God imagine if libs never got in after keating, we would have ended up worse than greece. The majority of what labor is doing is simply not working as intended. Funny how labor now wants to fix other countries through the UN after making a mess here.
 
It could be worst than that, depending on whose forecasts you want to believe.

http://afr.com/p/national/swan_grip_on_surplus_gets_slippery_DtZ0lTolFYAQfrBR9Wh2SP
 

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sptrawler said:
Who cares, as long as it deflects the public eye from the main issues.
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Greg Sheridan has written a piece on the scale of the bribery to secure that seat.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...but-at-what-cost/story-e6frg76f-1226499607817
 

What Mitt Romney said about Barack Obama applies equally to Julia Gillard;

"So little time...so much to redistribute."
 
drsmith said:
It could be worst than that, depending on whose forecasts you want to believe.

http://afr.com/p/national/swan_grip_on_surplus_gets_slippery_DtZ0lTolFYAQfrBR9Wh2SP
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the current debt ceiling ($300 billion is it?) could become a bigger talking point over the next few years. Both parties to me don't seem to have too many ideas on returning to surplus as a temporary stability measure (despite all the talk). They both want to spend money on new initiatives (which I have no big problem with - future generations should be paying for better infrastructure and services - on the cavaet that we do not over-extend via extravagence and waste). Lots of budget black holes and not much discussion on how to fill these as far as I can see. Spending promises seem to have more weight than cost cutting when winning elections (which makes sense because the latter strikes at the insecurity of the public).

This is why I want both parties to talk about policies and budgeting in the coming months - I think it could become fascinating. Especially if it is boring to the media - it means something productive is bound to happen. Unfortunately short-termism is more likely to prevail than any long-term thought.
 
I think the Liberals will have to raise taxes if they form a government at the next election too - but that might be just me. The backdrop of falling taxation revenues and ballooning costs in this country almost gaurantees it.
 
Ves said:
I think the Liberals will have to raise taxes if they form a government at the next election too - but that might be just me. The backdrop of falling taxation revenues and ballooning costs in this country almost gaurantees it.
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Yeah, I agree. The states are the ones with the most to lose, which is why I think a US style land tax system is on its way. I read somewhere that the ACT is already implementing something like this and scrapping stamp duty.
 
moXJO said:
God imagine if libs never got in after keating, we would have ended up worse than greece. The majority of what labor is doing is simply not working as intended. Funny how labor now wants to fix other countries through the UN after making a mess here.
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I thought the "GOOSE" was the worlds best treasurer.
 
If Obama loses the election, and it's on the cards that he will, then bang goes our foreign policy. The only rationale for our presence in Afghanistan is that our Julia is brown-nosing to Obama. A conservative government in Washington will involve a complete revision of Labor foreign policy. A majority of Australians would like to see us out of this mess, so it it could be a popular decision.
 

WTF

What are you smoking?

Aust and the US will start pulling out next year (3 months away) and will be all out by the end of 2014, combat troops that is.
 


Actually foreign policy between the Dems and GOP is exactly the same Obama has maintained Bushes position of just about all issues
 
IFocus said:
Actually foreign policy between the Dems and GOP is exactly the same Obama has maintained Bushes position of just about all issues
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Maybe, but the only reason we remain in Afghanistan is because Obama wants us there, and Gillard can't say no to Obama. If you can think of any other reason why we should continue such an idiotic stance, I would like to hear it. As Cynical so crudely indicates we are geared to Obama's policies on withdrawal strategy.
 
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