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Hartcher demands immigrants!

You really have to hand it to the press gallery.  They are completely, totally and utterly obsessed with increasing immigration.  They will pay any price, bear any burden, to suit their proprietors and advertisers interests by endless promoting it on the slightest of pretexts.

Step forward Peter Hartcher at this link in the Fairfax online newspapers.  China’s crackdown on Hong Kong means…you guessed it; we need to have unlimited immigration from there!

Of course, there’s the usually logically inept handwaving about how they’re all skilled (nope, and there’s no skill shortages anyway; and haven’t been any for decades), we need the human capital to fill the jobs (there were never any jobs before Covid, and there’s absolutely none after) etc etc. 

The real reason is, of course, never stated: ‘We run a population ponzi which has collapsed so we desperately need more people to prop it up’.  But then, that’s not as catchy as the rubbish and increasingly threadbare and obvious crap peddled by the population pushers.

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What the elites really want by ‘pre vetting’ Facebook

The latest elite cause now is ‘pre flagging’ ‘hate speech’ on Facebook and Twitter.  What this really means in English, is pre censoring the few remaining outlets that allow people to publish their own thoughts directly (as chatboards like Whirlpool and others are now completely dead due to ridiculous overmoderation). 

They don’t like free speech, and therefore demand to pre-flag anything that they dislike as ‘hate speech’.   Men who are unattractive who approach women are incels.  All electoral candidates have to be female, otherwise  its sexist. It’s great we spend 33bn a year on Aboriginal welfare, and every time the (largely white) Aboriginal complaint industry starts screaming, we must give them what they way (hint- this means more money). And, of course, none of this money will be stolen.

The elites don’t like Trump, he must be defeated, but more importantly, denied a voice.  I mean, he’s made a few weak moves against immigration (that’s automatically racist), and everyone knows that during the Covid jobs crisis we must have more foreign visa workers, right?

The elites basically don’t like you, don’t need you, they are too busy with their government funded jobs, their groupthink media careers, and cheering on higher and higher immigration to employ their nannies, maids and butlers (and coincidentally support their proprietors and advertisers interests).  You have no right to free speech, you are a racist, sexist swine who should just stop now. And, by god, you have no right to saying anything on the net without it being ‘pre cleared’ first.   

Your speech is automatically ‘hate speech’. So just shut up.

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Victoria Corruption

Unsurprising recent revelations of the almost total corruption of the Victorian labor govt. 

Now I have seen comments from people saying ‘oh well at least we’ve gotten good progressive government anyway’.

What people need to understand is that, no you haven’t, there is nothing else there.

You’ve got a couple of virtue signalling snow job advertisements on TV (paid with public money) while in the real world the Andrews govt have flogged everything off to private enterprise while running a population ponzi scheme.

Do you buy groceries or any sort of physical goods? (this is joke- everyone does) Then those goods have likely been shipped through Melbourne’s port which has been flogged off to private enterprise who can charge what they like.  You are being gouged in the supermarket to pay for a private monopoly Labor set up.


Do you ever plan on buying or selling land? Then you must deal through PEXA, a largely Labor set up private monopoly.   And if the land is in Victoria, then you now have to go through the privatized titles office and pay whatever rates are set by the private monopoly. The state forcing you to use a particular private business- its really a unique, new, thing.

Just because you’re being robbed by a thief who expresses concern about social issues and your emotional state during it doesn’t mean you’re not a victim at the end with an empty wallet.

And as for the labor politicians pretending to be ‘offended’ about how they were talked about in the tapes- this is just hilarious given that every labor politician owes their cushy overpaid job to the branch stacking and the way they REALLY talk about each other – and the mug voters who put them there.

Its really really time the ridiculous corruption from top to bottom in this state- (notably in the public sector), is eliminated once and for all, and a total cleanout of all the mates and cushy time seekers is implemented.  Time to get rid of compulsory voting as well, as it guarantees seats for people like this.

Otherwise it’s a total fraud.

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Trump

I’m not allowed to say this, but he’s not so bad. I’ve noticed that whenever he made vague noises on restricting immigration (particularly the media and the elites sacred H1B visas); the press were quickly on his case. I just wonder if most of the animosity toward Trump is that he occasionally tries to help out the American worker (currently having their lifestyles decimated by visa workers and open borders); and this is not permitted.

The George Floyd incident does look very bad, but then again, Trump never said he supported it etc.

Certainly on the Democrat side no discussion of high immigration/visa workers is permitted ; so Trump is the only option for American workers to protect their jobs.

It’s ironic that business loves free markets and having pricing power, but screams blue murder and demands unlimited visa slaves if wages rise a half percent. And of course the chief demanders of indentured visa workers are the wonderful ‘woke’ tech companies; most of which wouldn’t employ US citizens in a fit.

The biggest negative factor affecting the black labor market in the USA is the presence of visa ‘bonded’ workers (as it is for the white labor market). Thats what we should be marching in the streets about.

Of course I’m not really allowed to think or say the above so please disregard.

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The Hawke myth

Having lived through the Hawke PM era myself (1983-1991), and quite liking him and his govt, I can still never understand the way press gallery journalists write adoringly about the Hawke years and how much he ‘reformed’ things etc. 

He really didn’t do that much. 

He didn’t really change wealth distribution, tax the rich more (with one important exception below); or alter any great power balance in society.    

(I can hear people objecting already to this, so lets work through some of the main arguments that Hawke changed a lot of things):

Superannuation

Not really the big shift people thought it was. At the end of the day, its government saying if you keep your savings and then live off them (with an allowed stream in retirement) we’ll tax you less.  Its really still wage earners money, but being locked away from them.

its also turned into (not really Hawke’s fault) a huge gravy train for the rich, and for rich advisers feeding off the money.

I used to think there was some great policy purpose to it, but really the only good it does is stop people blowing their money as they retire, then going on the pension (or at least thinking about doing this). 

It also creates a huge amount of administrative bloat and waste, notably for people who get a one off job etc.

Medicare

This is probably the single biggest ‘Hawke changed things’ point. Yes it was important, but likely coming anyway, as it has done to virtually every wealthy country except the USA. 

There was a state system of hospitals etc in Australia, but it still had many gaps.

But again, it was coming anyway, and wasn’t really introduced over the protests of any great pressure group (though the doctors union whinged a bit).

And it should have covered dental, but didn’t.

The Accord etc

I never got this:

  • We’ll ask for lower wage rises
  • Business will make more money
  • ?? living standards will rise

I suppose there was a benefit here in less chaos from strikes, inflation etc, but it was way overblown.

Capital Gains Tax

This was the big one.  Introducing a tax on capital gains on assets bought after 1985.  Stupidly, this tax was halved by John Howard in 1999.    This was the one thing I think Hawke really changed.   They had a go at reforming negative gearing (1985) but caved to a property industry whinge campaign in 1987.

Summary

So there we have it. A cautious government, a cut in wages. A temporary cut in unemployment, but it all came roaring back in the early 90s recession anyway, (and went far higher and stayed there).

Not a lot of taking on vested interests and forcing change.

So why do all these press gallery journalists (Troy Bramston, Paul Kelly etc etc) love to witter on about the Hawke government and how good it was, ‘reform’ etc etc ?: 

Because it didn’t change much, and it certainly didn’t affect their proprietors interest (in fact their proprietor was grossly appeased with specific laws passed at his command in 1986).

By writing about Hawke etc they can pretend to themselves that they’re all ‘progressive’.  Just like the way they champion unlimited immigration, and kid themselves they’re being all ‘liberal’ when in fact they are cheering on wage cuts and a massive transfer of wealth upwards.

Of course, if anyone really tries to reform things (like getting the miners to actually pay tax on what they dig up), then the press gallery immediately close ranks and start giving unlimited publicity to industry scare campaigns.

But happy to have my mind changed in the comments! (if there are any of course).