Scott Morrison - How Long?

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It appears to be working. So can you blame him?
Don't think so. My family who have never voted anything but Liberal ever won't be on the 18th and neither are those in their social circle.

I think it is funny.

Way to go Scottie, alienate the families with young children that care about things like climate change and not your do nothing government.
 

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Why are we so hell bent on dehumanise our country? Examples are;

1/ We would prefer to mechanise anything rather than have humans do it.
2/ We will move any and every job off shore if it saves a dollar. Everything from manufacturing jobs to legal services and everything in between.
3/ We would rather import skills from overseas because it is much easier than educate and train our own kids.


Explains why Barnaby never joined this particular church
Don't forget the obligatory 10% of your wages to fund the church.
 

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It appears to be working. So can you blame him?
You think so? Each time he says Labor it reminds the voting public that he still hasn't answered a simple question, why is he PM? Malcolm would be a damn site closer than this advertising flog.

Maybe he can get a job with Singo on May 20th?
 

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This comes from blanket capitalism with minimal regulation. The United States is an example - the biggest economy in the world that renders half of it's people on or below the poverty line. That is a failed system.

The IPA would dearly love us to copy it. Which is why, regardless of your leanings, Australians need to protect our Medicare, our decent social security and our living minimum wage. There are things that are broken within our system, but these 3 things are fundamental.
Couldn't agree more strongly PJ. Some people dearly love economic freedom so much they'd rather an American-style society. In my view, completely unfettered capitalism is un-Australian. We have always prided ourselves on targeted regulation and socioeconomic egalitarianism.

In my view, society is better off overall when the top 10 or 20% of the socioeconomic ladder is wealthy but not stratospherically wealthier than the bottom 80%.

Communism never works but pure capitalism is just as bad and oppressive to the majority. Ironically, it basically produces the same result as Soviet-style communism: a majority of people just getting by or struggling while a certain elite (who know the right people) live in luxury.
 

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Apparently Scott Morrison, who started a campaign purely on fear and hatred of Muslim people, who wants children radicalised and indoctrinated in religious schools, who gets on camera to show himself inspecting his latest offshore Concentration Camp, gets a bit upset when people compare his weird child indoctrinating cult behaviour to a Nazi salute.
 
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In case anyone was wondering

United Pentecostal Dress Rules for Women

"The basic reason for modesty of dress is to subdue the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life," the UPCI document continues. "The exposed body tends to arouse improper thoughts in both wearer and onlooker."
To avoid such problems, United Pentecostal churches set these modesty guidelines for women:
• No slacks "because they immodestly reveal the feminine contours of upper leg, thigh, and hip"
• No makeup
• No jewelry except wedding ring and wristwatch
• No low necklines
• No sleeveless dresses or shirts
• No very tight or very thin clothes
• No dress hemlines at or above the knee
• No sleeves above the elbow
• Uncut hair
The UPCI says balance is appropriate for women:
"She is not so old-fashioned as to look like a monstrosity, but she is deliberately methodical in choosing clothing that will dignify her womanhood without provoking the stares of the opposite sex."
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Cleavage AND ear rings, thats full frontal in pentecostal terms

Ironic that the biggest coalition poster in here calls themself 'golden shower'
 
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Things have tightened up since Shorten has had to open his mouth and now this deal with UAP. Unloseable elections have been lost before.
plenty of candidates have snatched seats from second place in primary votes. the coalition almost never

your principle didn't seem to stop abbott winning his election
 
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Couldn't agree more strongly PJ. Some people dearly love economic freedom so much they'd rather an American-style society. In my view, completely unfettered capitalism is un-Australian. We have always prided ourselves on targeted regulation and socioeconomic egalitarianism.

In my view, society is better off overall when the top 10 or 20% of the socioeconomic ladder is wealthy but not stratospherically wealthier than the bottom 80%.

Communism never works but pure capitalism is just as bad and oppressive to the majority. Ironically, it basically produces the same result as Soviet-style communism: a majority of people just getting by or struggling while a certain elite (who know the right people) live in luxury.
isn't the US one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world? save money on welfare, spend it on prisons. Is it any safer to walk the streets?
 

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Kidding, right?
Whether an Australian is poor by (say) a Burkinabe's standards is immaterial, since they have to live in a high-cost of living country (Australia) not in Burkina Faso.



This is IMO a naive and fallacious argument. Charities are largely localised in their activities, so charities serving wealthy neighbourhoods will be far better funded than those serving poor areas, since the wealthy have far more incentive to fund charities that serve their interests than charities that don't. Charities have a limited capacity to serve poorer areas for that reason. If you're a needy person in a remote area? You're largely on your own.

Also, if the wealthy dislike paying tax, why would they like funding charities that don't serve their interests?



Countries with high inequality (USA, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa) tend to suffer from crime, political corruption and social dysfunction. Not to mention that for a first world country, the US has utterly appalling infant mortality/drug use/literacy rates (as many as 43% of Americans are functionally illiterate).

Unless that's the sort of society you want to live in, then enforcing equality is important.

Also, I don't understand how enforcing equality discourages people from taking personal responsibility? Is a lack of personal responsibility solely responsible for the ills that the lower classes suffer from? I doubt it very much.



Economic freedom and 'taxation' aren't the same thing. Our top marginal tax rate is on paper slightly lower; our corporate tax rate is generally higher.

I would contend that the USA is really 'pro-socialism for the wealthy'.
Great post.
 

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Don't think so. My family who have never voted anything but Liberal ever won't be on the 18th and neither are those in their social circle.

I think it is funny.

Way to go Scottie, alienate the families with young children that care about things like climate change and not your do nothing government.

My parents had voted Liberal their whole life, but it was work choices that changed that for them. It wasn't going to affect them personally but they couldn't with a clear conscience vote for it.
 

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Couldn't agree more strongly PJ. Some people dearly love economic freedom so much they'd rather an American-style society. In my view, completely unfettered capitalism is un-Australian. We have always prided ourselves on targeted regulation and socioeconomic egalitarianism.

In my view, society is better off overall when the top 10 or 20% of the socioeconomic ladder is wealthy but not stratospherically wealthier than the bottom 80%.

Communism never works but pure capitalism is just as bad and oppressive to the majority. Ironically, it basically produces the same result as Soviet-style communism: a majority of people just getting by or struggling while a certain elite (who know the right people) live in luxury.

Sort of like how it is now with the top 10% being wealthier than the other 90% put together?


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