Politics
There's an election coming up, just 4 weeks away, so it seems like a good time to turn this into a political blog for a bit.
Politics is not boring. Politics is what allows governments to tell you what you can put into your body. Politics is what allows governments to take money out of your pay check without asking. Politics is what allows governments to tell you to what extent you may defend yourself. Politics is what allows governments to take away your freedom.
If you think politics is boring, you are ignorant, you are a useful idiot. Your apathy is what allows politicians to get away with that they do. I blame you personally every time the government infringes on my liberty. If you don't want to get informed, and cast an informed ballot on October 9, then you forfeit the right to complain any time in the next 3 years that the government does something you don't like, in other words, vote or STFU.
I should say a little about my own political beliefs, I guess. I am broadly libertarian. I am More fiscally moderate than most libertarians, but more fiscally conservative than most Australians, including both John Howard, and the more fiscally conservative Mark Latham. I believe in public healthcare. Liberty is often ill-defined. A belief in Liberty is the belief that people should be free to do anything they want, other than initiate force against someone else. My political beliefs will probably become more apparent as this blog continues.
The first week and a half of the campaign were a bit depressing. The two major parties were more or less trying to out do each other on how much of my, hard earned but easily appropriated, tax dollars they could spend. The current government is the highest taxing, highest spending government ever in this country. They tend to spend it on their own constituents though, rather than the more disadvantaged people who actually need it. Mark Latham is more fiscally conservative than John Howard and Peter Costello. Latham believes in small government. Howard believes in big-government. Latham is a lot more inclined to spend the money he does spend on those who really need it. His speeches about putting more rungs in the ladder might sound like hollow-rhetoric, but there is some truth to them. His policies, as announced thus far, would give poorer Australians more of an opportunity to be successful, but only if they put the work in. He’s not a fan of freeloaders, that much is obvious. The man has worked his arse off to get where he is.
Labor’s tax cuts look promising; it’s unfortunate that they announced them just before the embassy bombing. If it weren’t for that, I would have speculated that that event would have helped Labor more than the coalition.
I’ll finish with a link to another election blog, with a projection based on current polling and all. I’ve enjoyed reading it each day. http://www.pollbludger.com/
Politics is not boring. Politics is what allows governments to tell you what you can put into your body. Politics is what allows governments to take money out of your pay check without asking. Politics is what allows governments to tell you to what extent you may defend yourself. Politics is what allows governments to take away your freedom.
If you think politics is boring, you are ignorant, you are a useful idiot. Your apathy is what allows politicians to get away with that they do. I blame you personally every time the government infringes on my liberty. If you don't want to get informed, and cast an informed ballot on October 9, then you forfeit the right to complain any time in the next 3 years that the government does something you don't like, in other words, vote or STFU.
I should say a little about my own political beliefs, I guess. I am broadly libertarian. I am More fiscally moderate than most libertarians, but more fiscally conservative than most Australians, including both John Howard, and the more fiscally conservative Mark Latham. I believe in public healthcare. Liberty is often ill-defined. A belief in Liberty is the belief that people should be free to do anything they want, other than initiate force against someone else. My political beliefs will probably become more apparent as this blog continues.
The first week and a half of the campaign were a bit depressing. The two major parties were more or less trying to out do each other on how much of my, hard earned but easily appropriated, tax dollars they could spend. The current government is the highest taxing, highest spending government ever in this country. They tend to spend it on their own constituents though, rather than the more disadvantaged people who actually need it. Mark Latham is more fiscally conservative than John Howard and Peter Costello. Latham believes in small government. Howard believes in big-government. Latham is a lot more inclined to spend the money he does spend on those who really need it. His speeches about putting more rungs in the ladder might sound like hollow-rhetoric, but there is some truth to them. His policies, as announced thus far, would give poorer Australians more of an opportunity to be successful, but only if they put the work in. He’s not a fan of freeloaders, that much is obvious. The man has worked his arse off to get where he is.
Labor’s tax cuts look promising; it’s unfortunate that they announced them just before the embassy bombing. If it weren’t for that, I would have speculated that that event would have helped Labor more than the coalition.
I’ll finish with a link to another election blog, with a projection based on current polling and all. I’ve enjoyed reading it each day. http://www.pollbludger.com/