On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:22:04 Michael Scott wrote:
I said "large", I didn't compare our government's debt with any other country.
It's really silly to claim that our debt is "large" when it's smaller than most countries. Australia is part of the world economic system, our economy is not like North Korea and can't be considered apart from other countries. Therefore "large" or "small" don't have any real meaning without comparison to other countries, if it's smaller than other countries then it's small. The right wing echo chamber likes to just make things up and repeat them. So saying these things will get people to agree with you among the extreme right wing. But among the majority of the population you really need to be able to support your claims. It's always interesting the way that the right-wing parties get poor people to support policies that are designed to move money from poor people to rich people. Really the only way to measure Liberal success is how much money moves from regular people to multinational corporations and billionaires. Reducing taxes on mining companies while increasing the costs of basic medical services is an example of Liberal success. I don't think anyone on this list is wealthy enough to benefit from Liberal policies. Basically anyone who advocates for Liberal policies is advocating for less money for everyone here and more money for Gina and Clive. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/