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2009-02-01 Down Under

Mandarin speaking Auzzie PM - Time for a new world order.

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Posted by Besoeker & Frank G 2009-02-01 11:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 a joint venture with B!

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-01 13:34|| 2009-02-01 13:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr Rudd's essay follows the blast Mr Obama gave Wall Street bankers yesterday for awarding themselves $28 billion in bonuses last year at the same time as they were being bailed out by taxpayers.

In a message to Mr Obama and the US Congress, Mr Rudd counselled against erecting trade barriers. "Soft or hard, protectionism is a sure-fire way of turning recession into depression as it exacerbates the collapse in global demand."

OH, so you're all for government intervention in the economy as long as you're eating off of someone _else's_ gored ox.

Isn't that how the economic crisis _really_ happened?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-01 13:35|| 2009-02-01 13:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr Rudd writes in The Monthly that just as Franklin Roosevelt rebuilt US capitalism after the Great Depression

Interesting concept, Rudd re-writing American history. He's obviously not read Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-01 13:44|| 2009-02-01 13:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Now let's see. The system where private capital is allowed but has to do what the government says is called Fascism.

Bet the Australian voters didn't know they were voting for a Mussolini. Unfortunately ours can't even make the trains run on time(ask the people of Sydney and Melbourne - both states they are in have incompetent ALP(Labor party aka Looter Party) state governments although there's some redundancy in that statement.

Posted by Aussie Mike 2009-02-01 15:58|| 2009-02-01 15:58|| Front Page Top

#5 It was regulation that created the credit bubble.

They really are sh1t5.

Cause a problem. Shift Blame. Seize more power to claim to fix it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-02-01 17:00|| 2009-02-01 17:00|| Front Page Top

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