The world is changing…and not in a good way
It seems unnecessary even to say it, but that’s the truth of the matter. The world is changing and not in a good way. It’s the story of the frog in the saucepan.
The water heats up but it’s so comfortable that the poor frog doesn’t realise, until it’s too late, that the ever increasing temperature of the water is slowly boiling him alive. We are like the poor frogs and the changes in our lives have been, and are, so subtle we don’t catch on until it’s too late. What we have failed to notice is that our so-called democracy has been ripped out from underneath us and replaced with an obscene form of plutocracy.
Read the full article here: The Australian Independent Media Network
MYEFO, a tale of incompetence
What a tale the 2016/17 December MYEFO tells. And it’s not what the Treasurer is saying. Firstly, Scott Morrison is projecting a return to surplus in 2020/21 which is unchanged from the pre-election update.
What he isn’t saying though, is that the likelihood of this actually happening is next to zero. Thankfully, that’s not an issue because a surplus budget is the last thing the Australian economy needs right now, or indeed in four years’ time.
Read the full article here: The Australian Independent Media Network.
Do we now have a budget emergency?
The adults have been back in charge for over three years now. Our economy has been saved from the debt and deficit decimation and everything is back to normal. Scott Morrison take a bow. You have achieved something Joe Hockey couldn’t.
Oops! Hang on. Something’s not quite right here.
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Not even Malcolm can help them now
Each and every week it seems, a minister in the Coalition government will shoot his/her mouth off, desperately trying to defend their ever more obvious incompetence.
It’s hard to believe but Christian Porter, our Minister for Social Services, thinks we don’t have a job shortage problem. Like most of his conservative colleagues, it seems he would rather take a cheap shot at the unemployed than face up to the reality of a failed approach to reducing unemployment.
read more at: The Australian Independent Media Network
What Australia should fear most?
While most people in the world are scratching their heads in confusion and expressing their disgust at the election of Donald Trump as the next US president, there was one important issue raised during the campaign that received little attention and which has thus far been ignored.
Macroeconomics is not very sexy and not something one would associate with Donald Trump, but in an article in the Financial Times on 28th September 2016, the author, Judy Shelton, put the case that Trump had, “broken a cardinal rule in US presidential campaigning by openly questioning the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve.”
Read more at: The Australian Independent Media Network
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