tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post1439779496520985535..comments2024-03-28T16:48:18.088+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond roams from bludger tests to Dame Slap in paranoid hysteria mode to modern medievalists ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66085318392737977592015-02-26T13:29:48.521+11:002015-02-26T13:29:48.521+11:00GD, with respect, you overlook two things: 1) unem...GD, with respect, you overlook two things: 1) unemployment is reckoned a necessary component of their financial system; 2) where the Krudds got their government contracted rentier employment agency millions. Regarding that first point, the reserve bank has two targets to keep within mandated ranges: inflation and unemployment. They suppose that higher unemployment keeps inflation down. Of course it's all armchair stuff based on assumptions plucked from thin air, but it suits the ruling class to have cheap desperate labour and cheaper acquisitions.<br /><br />vc, there'll never be a Senate initiated enquiry, at the least I shan't be holding my breath... the neoliberal COALition and Labour parties are owned and dictated to by the one percenters.<br /><br />In another thirty years when Australia drops well beneath the top 20 OECD economies, as predicted in the recent PWC report, there still will not be such a Senate enquiry, however I expect a few onepercenters and their apparatchicks shall adorn the odd lamp post after that transition and the consequent mob initiated enquiry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-50562568491262532582015-02-25T19:08:19.172+11:002015-02-25T19:08:19.172+11:00GD, we could, imagine it for just a moment, ignore...GD, we could, imagine it for just a moment, ignore the catalogue of shameful idiocy from the Abbott govt, and settle, even if for just a few days, on the 4 Corners Job Network programme.<br /><br />Therein, writ large is the abject idiocy and patent lack of initiative or vision of every govt since the decision to privatise the employment sector. It's a great tap leaking cash to grey, anonymous corporates for nothing but patting people on the head, and faking documents.<br /><br />IT needs a Senate enquiry, not pink batts, not JG, not Triggs - IT needs a Senate enquiry to make the facts clearly visible to anyone that pays taxes. via collinshttp://www.higlossentertainment.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55014738078409467262015-02-25T17:40:49.323+11:002015-02-25T17:40:49.323+11:00Such a wealth of targets, DP, that it must be hard...Such a wealth of targets, DP, that it must be hard to know where to start. You are wise to go for the reptiles primarily, despite such a riches of political idiocy. Senator MacDonald provided evidence that even Abbott can occasionally get one right, which he did when omitting him from the ministry. There was some comedy in the Senate when the bully-boys got it served up to them from Griggs and the two Pennys. It proved also that Abbott and cronies' fear of intelligent women was justified.<br /><br />Why on earth should the tabloid News Ltd lot go after the Dole Bludgers? [They haven't yet abandoned Abbott despite their big brother determined to get rid Credlin, the closest he has to any insider with brains.] The downward spiral in his approval ratings is only arrested by him coming the bully-boy. Both the Boat People and Islamic fanatics are starting to wear a bit thin. Who else is around for a spot of Fear and Loathing? What about Dole Bludgers? Trouble is, it was done to death in Howard's day, and now we've got real unemployment.<br /><br />Most people can do the maths, and 750,000 unemployed doesn't fit into 150,000 jobs. The same was true in Howard's day, but he had more of the media onside and he massaged them well. Abbott in contrast has had to be nursed and protected by the media. And it can't be controlled so effectively now, with social media in the way.<br /><br />But really, you wonder how it got by in Howard's time. The maths were the same. Were our politicians really so dumb that they believed that unemployment could be solved by competition and incentives? Why was the CES made the scapegoat for labour market failures? It is an economic not administrative problem. It's like shutting down the Weather Bureau because they don't like the weather.<br /><br />Or was it that the rent-seekers saw an opportunity of rorting the public purse? An apologist for Job Services Australia (the successor to the Job Network) made the point that a lot of it is more "gaming" the system than fraud, but the boundary is so vague that there is little difference. In each case, the purpose of serving jobseeker needs is defeated, as we saw in the 4 Corners program.<br /><br />It is a great pity that Labor made little or no effort to change the system back. Partly that was due to Rudd's softly softly dithering and then his sabotaging of the 2010 campaign, leaving Gillard and co to walk the tightrope. Sadder still that we've now got IPA and Tea Party loonies now running the country and some of the best infrastructure in the NBN, education, training and health has been abandoned.<br /><br />It's an issue dear to my heart as once I was an Employment Counsellor for DEET/CES. I've catalogued some of my case study stories, for which I'll one day find a publisher.<br />Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64196341859673352042015-02-25T17:28:13.669+11:002015-02-25T17:28:13.669+11:00And where's timmey wilson on all this ......?
...And where's timmey wilson on all this ......?<br />http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/tim-wilson-nowhere-to-be-seen-or-heard-20150216-13g14i.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24824077866009868662015-02-25T16:43:14.426+11:002015-02-25T16:43:14.426+11:00Whoo..dunno..dunno, coll's...could be drawing ...Whoo..dunno..dunno, coll's...could be drawing a long bow there...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59448494935704282062015-02-25T16:30:11.560+11:002015-02-25T16:30:11.560+11:00How to Help the Unemployed by Henry George. The No...<a href="http://savingcommunities.org/docs/george.henry/helpunemployed.html" rel="nofollow"><i>How to Help the Unemployed</i></a> by Henry George. The North American Review, Volume 158, Issue 447 February 1894<br /><br />An approving line there - "This is not "mere theory." It is theory to which all experience testifies. New Zealand is to-day the one country which enjoys anything like prosperity in the midst of a universal depression" - is often heard lately albeit in a contrary context from the likes of South Australian ABC loon Vandstone. Wakefield too would approve the line in the past 40 year neoliberal NZ/South Australian/Australian context where "we hear no longer of "scarcity of labor." We hear now of "scarcity of employment." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90236280570419764172015-02-25T16:10:33.013+11:002015-02-25T16:10:33.013+11:00Is there a possibility, just a wild, pie-in-the-sk...Is there a possibility, just a wild, pie-in-the-sky notion, that The Australian newspaper may be top-heavy with opinion? I'm just throwing it out there, the same way Malcom is throwing his support for Prof Triggs out there.via collinshttp://www.higlossentertainment.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29336085212567642382015-02-25T16:00:37.222+11:002015-02-25T16:00:37.222+11:00Gillian Triggs vs Tony Abbott - cartoonist Shakesp...Gillian Triggs vs Tony Abbott - cartoonist Shakespeare sums it up well<br /><br />https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-lebszUcAAbiKd.jpg:largeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-78844684985337952182015-02-25T15:09:03.329+11:002015-02-25T15:09:03.329+11:00Turnbull..always there with the band-aids...and so...Turnbull..always there with the band-aids...and sometimes with the blade to do the cutting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-54250305217033729572015-02-25T15:07:08.840+11:002015-02-25T15:07:08.840+11:00I have this "picture" of the Oz. journos...I have this "picture" of the Oz. journos', having been given their "assignment" for the day (th' Dame's being "get stuck into the Green/Reffo' wimps), going about their domestic duties whilst dictating into the iphone on the granite kitchen bench-top...; peeling the spuds ( "...those fantasists Greens have no..."), marinating the pork cuts ("...render the Greens irrelevant...") and beating an egg or two...but you get the idea...: Lots of rhetoric standard, a dash of peppered vitriol and finish off with a splash of soy light...stop, replay , edit, send to the typing pool..."Ok kids!...time for swimming lessons..."...tomorrow being another day. Could almost do it now with their eyes shut..oh, wait!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-83850079064470820742015-02-25T14:38:20.346+11:002015-02-25T14:38:20.346+11:00Turnbull is befriending the friendless Triggs, Jul...Turnbull is befriending the friendless Triggs, Julie Bishop is running through her repertoire of emoji mimicry. What a day! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-164879381576455652015-02-25T14:11:42.936+11:002015-02-25T14:11:42.936+11:00Figures given for those taking jobs in Australia f...Figures given for those taking jobs in Australia from Australian citizens as of a few years ago were:<br /><br />Skilled workers (so called) and their family members on 457 visas 190,000 <br />New Zealanders 630,000<br />International students 330,000 <br />Student graduates on post-study visas 41,000<br />Migrants on bridging visas 118,000 <br />Working holiday-makers 170,000 <br />Total to do the locals out of jobs and conditions 1479000<br /><br />One 457 job taking non-citizens, never-likely-to-be-citizens article by Peter Mares in 2013:<br /><br />http://inside.org.au/457s-and-temporary-migration-the-bigger-picture/ <br /><br />The chart and table now missing from that webpage may still be seen in the archived page. Here's the first archived save of it:<br /><br />http://web.archive.org/web/20130702065412/http://inside.org.au/457s-and-temporary-migration-the-bigger-picture/<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66618072060997925902015-02-25T13:53:43.929+11:002015-02-25T13:53:43.929+11:00It seems to me that Dame Slap belongs in the tradi...It seems to me that Dame Slap belongs in the tradition of "useful idiots" - for talking up something that is completely sinister and which has an out of control momentum that nobody can, or will be able to, reign in. Something straight out of 1984 but almost infinitely worse.<br />She ought to read the essay available on TomDispatch by Alfred McCoy titled The Unwritten American Rules of the Road, particularly the last section sub-titled The War on Terror.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45522583634517932892015-02-25T13:33:44.439+11:002015-02-25T13:33:44.439+11:00DP wrote: ".. but what bit of that 780,000 un...DP wrote: ".. but what bit of that 780,000 unemployed competing for only 150,000 job vacancies don't the fuckwits at the Currish Snail understand?"<br /><br />That's by THEIR liblab figures, of course. The unemployment calculation has been jiggered some 52 times since Keating's fix in 1992. By the 1992 calculation the unemployment rate is somewhere north of 15%, then there are the underemployed, the turned off, etc. to add to that 15%!<br /><br />Then add to that total, now somewhere north of 25%, the 650,000 imported non-citizen workers on dodgy 457 visas. Then add the 200,000 non-citizen never-to-be-citizen working visa overstayers plus the 100,000 or so "backpackers" looking to extend their visa by working (usually in very dodgy underpaid sub-standard employment arrangements). Then perhaps add 350,000 Kiwi job takers...<br /><br />There you go - deal with those figures appropriately and there will be something of a real labour shortage in Australia. The trouble with fixing the problem is that it would not get past the bosses' and foreign capital's liblab political sock-puppets.<br /><br />On that last, has Blib Snooter said anything on the matters arising from the 4Corners unemployment scams coverage? Any questions fired off in question time? Any zingers intended at the expense of Abbott, Abetz, or Morrisson?<br /><br />http://unemploymentunion.com.au/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-25754964022134609732015-02-25T09:28:42.108+11:002015-02-25T09:28:42.108+11:00Steven Scott from the courier obviously has a plan...Steven Scott from the courier obviously has a plan to create 10 of thousands of new jobs. What a goose he is...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-25146302822060430642015-02-25T09:24:53.406+11:002015-02-25T09:24:53.406+11:00You're right of course, anyone who accepts Lor...You're right of course, anyone who accepts Lord Monckton's talk of climate science should be hung up from the nearest light pole. I'm sure slapper will be there before my time is up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-12440270853261074902015-02-25T09:05:57.727+11:002015-02-25T09:05:57.727+11:00Fair go! DP, any 'slender blonde' is, by d...Fair go! DP, any 'slender blonde' is, by definition, a person who commands attention from grey blokes. Fox or faux, it doesn't matter, and a glimpse of thigh .... <br />As for partisan reports, any piece of reportage that's decorated with superlatives like "skyrocketing" and "tsunami" is, clearly, weighed down with Peta's Talking Points and floats to the top of the scum.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90708937645074670112015-02-25T08:59:00.725+11:002015-02-25T08:59:00.725+11:00You really should feel pity for the Egg ...You really should feel pity for the Egg ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88481146736344391712015-02-25T08:52:55.262+11:002015-02-25T08:52:55.262+11:00Brandis with egg on his face...I dwell in idle con...Brandis with egg on his face...I dwell in idle contemplation as to which should be considered more disgraced ; The Face or the Egg ? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com