freediver wrote on Apr 10
th, 2022 at 7:53pm:
For far more fundamental reasons - the government should not be running these businesses in the first place.
Why.....................??
They ran them in the past, its only since neo-liberalism came in the early 80s led by the Hawke Keating government that the Government owning anything is considered communism.
Globalization and free trade is the oligarchs laws imposed on governments who for what ever reason pass them.
The world was a better place when we were under the Keynesian economic system rather than this neo-liberalism we have today were corporations run the show and not governments.
Before the early 1980s our and every government in the free world were not only a player but also THE coach of the team.
What do I mean by that, well you had a choice you either work for government or private industry.
Not only that if a bank wanted to do something that might jeopardise the country the Government could step in put them over its knee and give them a good spanking.
Remember the 2008 GFC......!?
The bottom line of the neo-liberal treatise is,
"Put everything into the hands of corporations and all else will sort itself out"
What a load of malarkey that is.
We've had nearly 40 years of it houses are now affordable by the time your current kids and then grand kids grow up forget it lol.
Everything has been going up except wages n salaries.
What will it take for people power to come to the fore.
Does it have to get down to not being able to put a steam on the table or buy a beer at the pub.
Surely we are smarter than that.