There has been no known successful privatisation in Australia.

freediver wrote on Apr 10^th, 2022 at 7:53pm:


Government running essential services makes a huge amount of sense. It is simply the best way to do it, the best method to provide necessary services to the community.

Without the commonwealth bank in government hands the banking sector went rogue, they just do what they like.

In telecommunications Telecom Australia had the responsibility of providing the communication network required in their charter. This means that they would have just built the NBN without a decade of haggling, bad decisions and sub standard performance driving the process with the final outcome being a slow uncompetitive network by world standards.

freediver wrote on Apr 10^th, 2022 at 4:39pm:


Now YOUR  thread, entitled 'privatization', has people's replies entitled under  BOTH "Modern Monetary Theory' AND 'privatization' ...

I say again: restore the reply function to post #125  in the MMT thread, or be exposed as a fraud. 

Where this was the post being debated (on the Modern Monetary Theory thread):

"It's called 'privatisation', the selling off of state assets to stave off bankruptcy caused by the bank-created debt. Third World countries are handing over control of their land and resources to the international bankers because they cannot pay back the vast loans made, on purpose, by the banks to ensnare them in this very situation. The world does not have to be in poverty and conflict, it is manipulated to be that way because it serves the bankster's agenda."

..until you -  as blindly self-interested  as the banksters mentioned above -  diverted the topic to avoid an  examination of  the current evil neoliberal economic debt-money system.    

https://youtu.be/2nBPN-MKefA

freediver wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 1:45pm:


No, it belongs in an examination of economic reality, including why and  how money is created,  which you are unable to confront because it undermines your delusional "freedom"/"sovereign individual rights"/"survival of the fittest" ideology. 

And in any case, you are exposed as a fraud until you reinstate the reply ("quote") function in post #125,  in the MMT thread.   

Bobby. wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 1:55pm:



very good meme

i dont blame the uber rich for doing it.

you have to blame the politicians for being their little bitches and doing their bidding.

the rich have a duty to make money for their shareholders.

the pollies should stop taking the bribes and put the brakes on

aquascoot wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 2:02pm:



The average person is being shafted by Govts. and banksters.

freediver wrote on Apr 10^th, 2022 at 8:36pm:


A transmission tower would have had all of its “feet” in a thick pad of cement. We saw one such tower toppled that day, one of its “feet” up in the air—with like a 20L collar of cement around the base of it. That is not how such a massive tower carrying high voltage lines is anchored to the ground! There were also not enough apprentices to get power back up more quickly.

I drove from Gawler to Marion through a blacked out city, cops on duty at major intersections directing traffic with torches. Bit like the blackout in WWIi Britain (apart from car headlights. Eery.)

Bobby. wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 2:11pm:


its odd they cant see it bobby.

look at the pandemic

who benefited?

amazon
facebook
netflix
pfizer
bunnings
gerry harvey
the media


big governments right or left, it doesnt matter.
they do what big tech and big corp tell them or they are out.

look at america and joe biden.
military spending is up.
we had trump saying that the USA should mind its own business.
the cia and the military industrial complex went nuts.
in comes biden


did you know biden , obama and hilary dropped more bombs then george bush?
they dropped so many , they ran out of bombs.


nancy pelosi, a so called friend of the down trodden, as woke as f**k is worth 320 million dollars.

how did she get that when her salary is 200k a year.
she brought millions worth of tesla stock just before biden announces an EV mandate.

but because she is woke, the lefties idolise her.

she is laughing so hard at those fools

Looking back at President Obama’s legacy, the Council on Foreign Relation’s Micah Zenko added up the defense department’s data on airstrikes and made a startling revelation: in 2016 alone, the Obama administration dropped at least 26,171 bombs. This means that every day last year, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.