STONE the crows! Just watch the left-liberals seize on Sandy to sell their case for the big spending state and to smother the obvious question – why must people paid by the state provide services for citizens? On Wednesday, New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a press conference: New York City taxes itself and spends [...]
PRIORITISING INNER CITY TRANSPORT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST EVERYONE ELSE Can’t remember when you last caught a train, at least one in Sydney? Stone the crows! Don’t you know you are part of the last gasp of the baby boomer addiction to oil? A few years back when Australians were richer than they are now people liked [...]
DOWN AND ALIENATED IN HBO’S AMERICA STONE the crows! You don’t need the polls to see how upset Americans are with politics, you just have to watch television. And it’s not Fox and Friends that explains American antipathy to the political process, its HBO and its competitors. Certainly conservative commentators are liberal (well not really) [...]
Want another productivity revolution? Trust the Democracies Stone the crows! Is everything worthwhile already invented and are we set for a return to medieval economic growth rates of no per cent per millennium? Economist Robert Gordon certainly suggests so in a gloomster’s guide, which suggests economic growth is not the norm, that the growth of [...]
SELF RELIANCE VERSUS THE LOLLY JAR MENTALITY STONE the crows! If super’s stuffed the budget’s blown. Yes the great national investment, which was supposed to make old Australians self-sustaining, may not save the budget. According to CPA (Certified Practising Accountants), the senescent see super as a lolly jar to pay for treats: “It seems that [...]
The Welfare State is not back – it never went away STONE the crows! Franklin Delano Obama is about to romp home for a second term with people no better off than they were long before he was in office. Median family income, for example, peaked in 2007 and is now, inflation adjusted, back where [...]
Yes Minister/No Minister grumbles at the top STONE the crows! The hollow persons are on the nose On Thursday, BCA chief and former bureaucrat Jennifer Westacott suggested what stood between ministers and good government were the hacks and flacks in their offices that public service authority “has been undermined by political gatekeepers, often with little [...]
WHY OBAMA MIGHT WIN – AS THE US GETS OLDER AND POORER STONE the crows Barack Obama looks like winning on a platform of Hope (the economy doesn’t tank) and Change (but with luck, not for the worse). Mr Obama isn’t assured a second term but short of a campaign catastrophe it is starting to [...]
(Meg) Lees Law – or why the Greens & Tea Party types are useless in real politics STONE the crows! Why is everybody amazed Green is no longer for go? Last week’s Newspoll showed the Greens are losing support, with a three and half year low 8 per cent primary vote. [i] The only thing [...]
Sarah Maddison’s elitist message to the Greens STONE the crows! It is the worst of times, it is the worst of times! At least, according to Sarah Maddison. The political activist, who was once a spokesperson for the Women’s Electoral Lobby and is now an academic, is appalled by the crook quality of political debate.[i] [...]
