Today's article "Rudd delivers New Federalism" should have the headline "ALP holds Australia to ransom ... and collects!"
Commonwealth control over the Murray-Darling basin is in place. We will all benefit hugely by removing state competition over the scarse resourse of water. It's a great idea... and it's Howard's.
THe ALP now claims credit for making this happen, but it was ALP in Victoria that until now prevented it from happenning, because they did not want Howard taking the credit. They knew with the climate of media frothing against Howard they could take an extremely unreasonable position, hold out on Howard's reasonable offer, and get away with it with the Age singing their praises.
This deal never have even occurred to state labor if Howard didn't shove it down their throats. But, as with COAG generally, the ALP are now taking credit for making commonwealth and state relations work. Another Labor lie.
They say that Howard prevented the deal because of alleged intransigence and arrogance. In fact Howard put forward constructive proposals they they rejected not because they were bad, but because they wanted to damage him politically.
This New Federalism is no new spirit of cooperation and compromise. In fact it's quite the opposite. The Victorian ALP refused to cooperate or compromise until there was a Labor federal govt as well.
Labor, like teenagers, whinged and moaned until they got what they wanted. Like teenagers the lied to get their way and their parents , the public, fell into the trap of believing them. Labor can have their party now, and they will trash the house!!!
Labor accuses Howard of arrogance, but their spin and bare-faced cheek takes arrogance to a new level! Howard regularly acknowledged the achivements of the Hawke and Keating years. It will be a cold say in Darwin before the ALP acknowleges Howard's achievements. They are busy re-writing history on COAG and everything else he did.
Politics was too controntational under Howard say the ALP. That's only because the other side of politics was fighting for what was we thought was right. Now that the Libs were defeated the ALP is happy to stop fighting. Well newsflash you commo bastards, i'm not. "We dont like fighting" say the ALP. More like they dont like losing. They fought tooth and nail when they had to, or, more correctly, wanted to.
"There will ne no other political voice in the country other than us", decry the UNIONS. "All other voices are morally wrong because they do not represent the working man". And thereby give away the immorality of their position.
Labor does not represent the non-working man, he can go to hell in unemployment for all they care.
Labor does not represent the self-employed. Those enterprising individuals can hang for daring to be capitalists.
Labor does not represent the employers who actual dain to give their members jobs. They take pride in frustrating their every move, thereby restricting the number of jobs.
Labor does not represent professionals, those who work with their minds instead of their hands. I laugh at anyone who suggests that people who can't even be bothered thinking for a living somehow have a monopoly on moral virtue. A monopoly in intellectual laziness and lack of drive and ambition more like. Does labor even realise that the days of people working with their hands are numbered. Before long we will all have to work in a less robotic and more human capacity.
Needless to say, Labor does not represent me.
The Unions have staged a coup. They have bought their way into power by forcing their members, even those who vote liberal, to cough up fees for the Labor party. They are not controlling the nation. They can lie as much as they want and take credit for Howard's federalim because the media will print it and the public will believe it, under the duress of herd-intimidation.
"We are the rightful rulers of this country from here to eternity!" Labor declare, "Yes maaaaster" comes the public sheepish reply.
The Labor party are like the English cricket team. They will one series and declare they are the greatest cricketing nation the world has ever known. They give everyone and MBE, the captian a Knighthood and ridicule the opposition they defeated by the skin of their teeth by refusing to bat in the low-light of the English summer.
It's a joke, and like the Aussie cricket team the Libs can break their hearts next time round. If the ALP is still standing on it's union funding base at the next election they are fair game. They are proferring and 19th century type of socialist politics and it won't, cant fly. They are currupt and weak. Let them score 600 runs. We'll chase them down and they'll never recover their momentum. The ALP, not the Libs, should be worried about their long term survival. Union power will inevitably fade in this country as it has done in every other. It's just a matter of time.
Tick tock tick tock
