Please excuse and pardon if the pond gets the obvious point out of the way right at the get go …
Of course millennial economists don't have a clue about the real world …
This is the way the real world works …
Remember, in the real world, it's important to hold out the paw if you want it to be greased ...
Here, millennial economists, do something useful and go out and promote democracy …
Now learn millennial economists! That's how baby boomer newspaper columnists handle the real world ...
And so, as a distraction from the ongoing Barners affair, it's on with the real world Caterists …
Every par thus far is rich with "cash in the paw" taxpayer grant irony, isn't it, but the pond isn't going to get into the discussion in detail, especially if it might mean the pond sounds like it's defending Emma Alberici, who has always struck the pond as a TV show host short of a program …
Others have done it, and done it more ably than the pond, as in Greg Jericho's Turnbull's attack on Emma Alberici's tax-cut analysis doesn't add up …
In the middle of the Barners' fuss, Malware and the reptiles were desperate for a distraction, and so Alberici became the golden goose that kept on giving, with the ABC bolting into a cave of censorship, and Media Watch joining in, and suddenly she's the red sparrow for the day at the lizard Oz …
But enough of bird metaphors, because the pond has got ahead of itself and the Caterists …
You see, the Caterist always had Alberici as the main pigeon in his sights, but it would have been unseemly for old Nick to drag the target out in the first few pars, and blast away.
Instead, there needed to be an elaborate dance around the bush, until the target hovered into view, and both barrels could be brought to bear ...
Say what?
A millennial economist par excellence?
Naturally the pond went in search of a definition and Herr Google came up with this ...
Passing strange … because Greg Hunters will find that this "millennial economist par excellence" was actually born in 1970 … which in the mindless way of meaningless demographics deployed by bubble heads like the Caterists, would make her a Gen Xer par excellence …
Now it's not the pond's business to carry on about error-strewn articles of the mindless Caterist kind, and anyone wanting to read Alberici's piece can find it at John Menadue's Pearls and Irritations, under the header There's no case for a corporate tax cut when one in five of Australia's top companies don't pay for it …
Suffice to say that the pond is of the school which suggests that anyone who thinks corporate tax cuts will lead to a trickle down result should really check their bladder … or take a look at the way that income inequality and inequity has burgeoned in the past few decades, as the rich patiently explain how in due course everything will come to those who wait … while quickly locking themselves in gated communities before the peasants note what's been going down …
Of course the Caterist is amongst the light-fingered adepts busy getting a five finger discount from both government and business, a corporate shill of the most vulgar and naked and preening kind...
You know, in a world of tax havens, where companies and the rich routinely shift income, profits, and such like around the world to score the best tax avoiding deal, this sort of Caterist routine would be the richest of comedy material for anyone interested in delivering the blackest, most surreal set …
No matter how many times tax havens and the operations of multinationals are exposed, this sort of nonsense is still trotted out …
It's as if the Paradise Papers had never happened …
But then the Murdochians themselves have been at the heart of this kind of fraudulent activity, as noted at The Conversation here … (go there for the hot links)
No wonder the reptiles are so sensitive … corrupt on every level, and yet so righteous about the ABC …even though the ABC hands back any documents that might produce a subversive story the moment they're asked ...
Sheesh, as usual, the Caterists managed to induce a black dog sugar hit depression … perhaps that's why the Caterists love their sugar so … that or the joy of spreading diabetes ever wider in the land …
As a result, the pond decided that the only way to obtain any relief was to turn to an old First Dog, celebrating the Barners matter when it first began, with fresher doggie do here …good old Barners, the man who helped Gina, herself MID back in 2016 as an actual corporate taxpayer, when the ABC ran a story headed ATO says 30 per cent of large private companies pay no corporate tax …
Oh you've got to laugh, or you'd be crying all day … or munching on hundred dollar roast lambs ...
I wonder if Cater really expects anyone to read this stuff or is it simply a condition of his ongoing funding? Perhaps it is calculated on a "per lie" basis.
ReplyDeleteHis description of consumerism as a system where "individuals get to buy what they want" seems a bit wide of the mark. Individuals get to buy what they can afford. My understanding of consumerism is "spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like".
At some point in time we stopped being citizens and employees and became consumers and human resources. The difference is that we exist for the corporations, not the other way around. Cater's whole spiel is "who will think of the businesses?". I suppose it reflects the truth that the country is largely run by and for the benefit of big business - the pollies, IPA six wheelers etc are just a charade to distract from the scam.
Given that Goosebumps Cater is, IMHO, way too ignorant and too lamebrained to make up his own spiel, he's just delivering ex-cathedra homilies and postils to what he most fondly believes is his regular audience of Kool-Aid addicts.
DeleteAnd he's definitely not the only one doing that.
Off topic but did you see Cannavan in his press conference denying he had any knowledge of Joyce's philandering. He was not challenged and was let of the hook by the press gallery who seem afraid what could happen to them.
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