Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:35pm:



Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims.
Thomas Sowell

... will hardly leave a dust cloud when it crashes to the ground... after costing millions... plenty more where that came from ...

Frank wrote on Dec 17^th, 2022 at 9:42am:


Sowell in full blown, frankly evil mode.

Design an economy in which inflation is controlled by unemployment, eg, central  bankers raise interest rates to deliberately increase unemployment to bring down inflation...and then accuse the unemployed of being parasites. 

Sheer evil. 

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:26pm:


Most unemployed people don't "demand" anything, though even the BCA think the job seeker payment (dole) should be increased. Blacks demanding a return to "Aboriginal culture" is another matter altogether.

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I certainly do; but you keep demanding blacks compete in the same neoliberal job market as non-blacks, even though they are not sufficiently prepared in terms of  education, housing and good food, to successfully compete.   

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Assertions which are true. Alice Springs is collapsing under a black crime wave: good secure housing, good food, graded employment to facilitate the work habit, improving family morale, tackling alcohol problems head on, are all required.

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Nah...that's your diversion from the real issues outlined above. Many pollies, with their comfy, well-paid, seat- warmer jobs, are despised (if unfairly)  by the general population,  black or white.

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a totally ignorant remark, the hunter gatherer economy and associated culture and languages WERE smashed.

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A typical comment from someone  who doesn't understand the difference  between micro- and macro- economics; because one can do it, doesn't mean all can  do it, refer to  the 'fallacy of composition'.
[Keynes noted that while individual  frugality might be good for the individual, the economy would likly go into recession if everyone was frugal at the same time. Likewise not everyone can necessarily get a job at the same time. ]

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Clean living and frugality; whereas the (currency-issuing) state's money should be created in the state's institutions (treasury and central bank), not forced to rely on usurious private-sector money lenders, or reluctant taxpayers. 

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Has Lefty left?

Anyway I will stay, to  correct your manifold errors, diversions and confusion, as shown above.

Frank wrote on Dec 19^th, 2022 at 10:04am:


The truth is the state should guarantee above poverty employment for everyone, since the free market economy rewards the most competitive but leaves the least competitive to merely survive in poverty on the dole.
Simplicity itself.  The complexity is the evil NAIRU dogma of neoliberal economics.

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Indeed, but if the state is forced to take your money (through taxes)  to educate you, then it might be smart to look at why the state is forced to do this,  when the  state can create its own currency.

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That 'first lesson ' is obsolete, now that robots and IT are heavily involved in every field of production. There is no scarcity in the modern global economy, only the evil convention reserving the privilege of money  creation to profit-seeking private sector financiers. 

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Sowell mimicking Thatcher?

Certainly, both are not "intellectuals" ...


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Being forced to subsist on the dole isn't "preferential treatment".  See how evil simpletons like Thatcher and Sowell are?   

Frank wrote on Dec 19^th, 2022 at 2:54pm:


Living expenses of low income people should be subsidized by government, if the market can't pay decent wages.   Oh... and the dole should be abolished, there is always useful work to be done in any community.