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What like ******* things up royally?A shambolic government that still achieved more than many other governments since.
I was around as an adult during Billys days.
Seriously Meds; do the numbers.
Surely on a purely economics basis you have to support this?
No. It is crxp. The system is a joke. Its utterly absurd to say "oh it would cost x". Its just an excuse to spend even more money on nonsensical govt programs which will do stuff all to prevent crime?
It does have something to do with Gough. Free education means more people get degrees which lessens the worth of each degree. There are so many people with degrees now that as you point out many jobs require them. That by itself doesn't mean they have intrinsic worth, merely that the bar has been raised.
The below, went in to detail on this matter.
Does Education Matter?: Myths About Education and Economic Growth, Penguin (2002
One of Gough's policies that gets most lauded was one of his worst. IIRC a number in his own party realised this. There is a great quote by a minister (Beazeley? ) re this, cant find it with a quick google though)
By the way is anyone on here going to attempt to defend Gough increasing spending by 40% in one year?
Anyone??
Secondly, your argument is painfully classist. Gough made it possible for lower middle and working class people to get degrees, and through that education better their lives and those of their family. His changes to tertiary education effected many lives for the better. If you won't to criticize him for anything, it's expanding the middle classes through education reform. And as a classist that is precisely what you are criticizing him for.
Lastly, you bemoan the lessening of the value of degrees, yet you also preach the wonder of free market capitalism
What like ******* things up royally?
No. It is crxp. The system is a joke. Its utterly absurd to say "oh it would cost x". Its just an excuse to spend even more money on nonsensical govt programs which will do stuff all to prevent crime.
What you fail to mention is that if people knew they were at risk of losing their home they would be far less likely to misbehave. If people don't face consequences for their actions, then they aren't discourage from them. You don't seem to understand this.
Remember all the squealing re Clintons welfare changes, how it would cause homelessness and crime?
But Meds I've already shown you how it saves money and prevents crime.
Meds
Was your humanity surgically removed, or was there some other reason?
They always could get degrees via scholarships.
Again no sympathy for the silent majority whose lives are blighted by scum. I stand with them, the law abiders.
#ontheclaphamomnibus
You have done nothing of the sort. You haven't proved causation re threat of homelessness and crime.
Hang on. Are you saying there is no correlation between extreme poverty (ie homelessness) and... Crime?
Mate there was a reason this copper was getting involved with this family before they became homeless.
s**t, in WA simply being homeless is a crime. You get a move along order from the cops. Breaching it is a crime.
Where can you go if homeless?
For someone that harps on about links between ethnicity and crime, you certainly are wilfully blind to the effects of poverty and crime.
They always could get degrees via scholarships. Gough decimated the middle class via his economic policies, he hardly was a boon to them!
Amusing. There is no market price set for a degree ie heavy government subsidies distorts the market. If people paid the true price for a degree then demand would fall.
I am ALL for free market capitalism.
To left wing peoples homes. Apparently they are ok with letting compelte strangers into places without checking who they are.
You should be able to format that better .
Edit: Well done.
Don't troll this thread.
Didn't Frasier let in hundreds of thousands of boat people right after he ditched Gough?
Some of the pathetic right wing numbskulls around here reckon that all governments have to do is sit on their hands and do nothing. Well that's exactly what the arch conservative Menzies did from 1949 to 1966. Remember him?
To all of those mocking and denigrating Gough Whitlam, you live in the best country on earth because of Whitlam and because of Curtain and Chifley before him and Keating after them and to see your latest leader, the most reactionary and backward leader this country has ever had, Tony Abbott, get up before parliament along with all his lunatic right wingers and feign respect Whitlam whilst being hellbent on destroying his legacies is disgusting.
If Abbott were to live a thousand years, he'd still only do one billionth of what Whitlam did in three.
We live in the best country in the world becuase of the hard work of the people. Not some dog politicians who are so very good at spending other peoples money.
Whitlam was a bandit the way he threw other peoples money around all the while creating the hand out sense of entitlement society we sadly live in now.
and that's the point. The world was really stable economically so Menzies and the chaps went to social soirées and only had to make sure that once every three years they uttered the words "9/11", oops, "reds-under-the-beds" and they were in again; left free to "party" and oblivious to the fact that the rest of the world was catching up.And in that period , inflation & unemployment were ~ 2%.
Maybe sitting on their hands and doing nothing is a winner.