Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Kim Beazley's big fat vision

I was just watching 10 minutes of Kim Beazley delivering a speech to the Canberra Press gallery broadcast by the Australian Bolshevik Collective. And all I heard was blah blah blah, blah blah blah as he outlined Labor's vision of a better Australia and insinuated lots of things against the Liberals.

When describing what Labor would do, Beazley pulled out the old meaningless slogans like "build a nation to be proud of" and "in the national interest" and "helping individuals create partnerships with government rather than dependancy on them"... hey, did he pull those words from Stalin's speeches?

You wanna simple translation to what all these phrases actually mean in terms of policy ? It means a socialist command economy, heavily regulated, high taxing country which will strip away freedoms from business and individuals alike. If Labor doesn't like something, they can ban it or tax it to death, all in the name of "the national interest".

Of course he tried to milk the AWB scandal for what its worth, saying that the current government is morally bankrupt. One interviewer from the Herald-Sun had the common sense to actually ask Beazley what he was basing his allegation on. Beazley could only answer that because the government didn't actually ask for a royal commission to investigate its own involvement, well, then they must be hiding something bad of course !?

Oh yeah, and Labor think that the U.S should stop investigating the AWB involvement in the U.N oil-for-food scandal simply because the U.N is already investigating it ?

The U.N, the most corrupt political group in the world, is "investigating" itself and Labor don't see any possible problems ? Pfffttt ! Surely this is a case of doublethink.