That's the funny and ironic thing, her ideas have been yanked haha.

I do think though that she will be aiming at that Reclaim style of voter even though they are the minority at the moment.

-PB

You'll be suprised. There are a lot of people who dont like labour or lnp and despise the greens. They would vote for pauline .or the upf's party

EDIT: Oldie but a goodie haha

-PB

Edited by paulbagzFC: 24/5/2016 05:13:13 PM

Just curious PB. If you wanted to buy a house, why weren't you born to rich parents?

Cant ask that. You aren't allowed to , unless you want your life to be questioned and mocked

Well, Turdball is a neoliberal, so more apt would be, "why didn't you sell a kidney on the free open market, so as to afford a house with broadband?"

Edited by Murdoch Rags Ltd: 24/5/2016 05:57:44 PM

Yeah, but major metro rail projects should be funded by the private sector.
Am i doin it rite?

Edited by Murdoch Rags Ltd: 24/5/2016 05:57:20 PM

Just saw a snippet of the Morrison & Cormann press conference, embarrassing. It's quite incredible that the government are carrying on like they are in opposition.

They already do, through their taxes.:lol:

No one gets to choose who their parents are. we of course get to choose where we live. :d

Yesterday's latest poll from Essential maintains Labor's lead 51-49
http://www.essentialvision.com.au/category/essentialreport

Well, well, well. Who would have thunk it?
The Greens may take a chunk of votes of the Nats
If they're smart, they should direct preferences in Barnaby Joyce's seat to Tony Windsor and he'll have a real chance of getting up.

Lets all have "Don's Party", 2016 edition!

Everyone is said to have voted for Labor, but we get drunk and express the dissatisfaction of our lives instead!

Bill Shorten is a very warm and caring man.

-PB

Shorten's middle name must be 'promise'. How many un-costed pledges can he make during his election campaign?

The metre is running hot at the moment.

Not that the LNP are any better, Shorten just reminds me of a dodgy used car salesman :lol:

Oh Barnaby :lol:

The live trade export ban lead to Indonesia letting more boat people head to Australia :lol:

-PB

Regardless of whether one supports the Greens or not, under Di Natale they have been very good campaigners so far. Very clever in finding wedge issues to use against the ALP such as the penalty rates issue. Now they are using this against the Nats.

Be interesting to see how this translates on polling day.

Just because the Libs and their mates at the Daily Terror say it is uncosted, doesn't necessarily make it so.

I guess when you raise taxes you can pay for everything :lol:

I love how corny politics can be. It's practically a below the belt boxing match.

You don't sense a Jeffrey Dahmer vibe with him?

Floor pricing in milk and similar regulations are surely common sense for everyone right? If you let prices drop too far you push out smaller players and get stuck with the big guys who then start dictating terms. New Zealand had a few issues with this sort of thing happening.

You missed da joke.

-PB

The man who said it would know all about warm and caring :lol:

Seriously though, it shows you how much politicians are on autopilot and just parroting a script.

Not according to the neocons.
You see they believe the 'free market should determine prices'
The problem is there is nowhere on the planet that we can physically get anywhere near the concept (& that is all it is, a concept) of a free market. The closest you get to a true free market is the money market & share market.
Additionally, the neocons conveniently ignore that in a free market there is, by & large, no monopolies or duopolies, or in the case of the dairy market, monopsony or duopsony.
This is why, on the surface, the idea of capitalism with a free market to resolve all inefficiencies sounds sensible, but it ignores the reality of how mankind operates. As such neoliberalism is a very simplistic ideology - they don't want to accept the nuances of all the errors with this ideology when applied to reality.
An out & an out profit driven entity, will almost always try to get away with whatever they can, even if its illegal. This is a key reason why neoliberalism is inapplicable. The ideology also doesn't solve externalities/pollution - it is a deferred economic cost.

We continue to buy local milk even if we have to pay more than Coles or Woolies milk. People will vote with their wallets if they really care ... depends how strong their values are on the matter.

I think we've proven that it doesn't work. People are all too happy with $1/Litre milk, but every man and his dog is on FB saying what a disgrace Coles and Woolies are. However, we're the ones buying milk but also complaining about the rising cost of living. Same goes with north QLD banana farmers but theres no outrage for them as they're not the flavour of the month.

With all things there needs to be a balance. Producers need a fair price for their products. We cannot afford to lose industries because we as the public refuse to pay fair prices for things. However consumers need a realistic price for the goods they buy or we have cost of living issues.

There are smarter people than me who would be able to give a reasonable idea as to how to work this practically.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Love it!

Get stuck into him, Tony!!

Nova Peris on leaving parliament made a statement which concerns me: "Until you are an aboriginal don't judge me".

I'm sure people will be quick to jump on her for the "poor black me" type comment but lets face it, all reports suggest she did fuck all as a senator. Is there an issue with racism in the NT parliament?

I think the wider issue to is having celebrities in government.

Blame the 'stars in their eyes' voting populace....