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22-5-03

Two Tom-isms

Tom Paine over at Silent Running mounts a defence of Danny's Glover's right to free speech. I remarked (in the comments section below the post) that Glover hasn't had his rights infringed in the slightest.

Tom also gives us a fine post about leftist apoplexy over the coming visit to Aus by President Bush.

I also predict comparisons will be made between John Howard and Harold Holt, who was supportive of the United States over Vietnam. In the demonography of the Australian Left, his "All the way with LBJ" stance was a humiliating loss of sovregnity, a sycophantic suck-up.

Of course, any support of the United States is a humiliating loss of independence, while having Gareth Evan slither under the doors of assorted Asian despots with a tube of KY jelly in his hands and a willing look in his eye is an example of rugged self-reliance.

Heh.
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economics 101

Today's Guardian has a stunner of pure stupidity.

Don't collect too much of this stuff... it's like evil man!!

Martin Kettle opens by wringing his hands and asking three really deep questions:

Modern politics in every European country faces the same three great challenges.
- The first is how to respond to the unique power of the US.
- The second is how to cope with the effects of large-scale international migration.
- And the third is what to do about deepening economic inequality.

May I take a stab at these, tovarich?

1- Forget the USA and get on with your own life, you sad farts.
2- Stop fundamentalist Muslims from entering your countries.
3- Um, gee, perhaps try reducing government interference and trying some good old market-style liberalisation?

Hmm, maybe not. Buying into the usual leftist delusion that earnings are somehow arbitrarily determined by some evil moneyed cabal, Martin comes up with a really bright idea: set a cap on executive salaries.

Ministers can sound confident enough when they tell Labour audiences of their pride in having introduced a national minimum wage. But if someone suggested to them that they should introduce a national maximum wage as well, they would think the idea was madness. If you asked a minister to say whether there was a moral or a rational case for anyone to earn less than £2 an hour, they would know exactly what to say. But if you turned the question round and asked whether there was a moral or rational case for anyone to earn more than, say, £250,000 a year, they would dismiss the idea as ridiculous.

Great idea fartknuckle: watch companies and talented aspirational individuals leave your shores, investment plummet and lots of your precious minimum wage workers suddenly not earning a minimum wage anymore. This would be followed by an outbreak of non-consumption, a resulting collapse in businesses nationwide, even more unemployment, a crippling welfare bill, an obliterated private sector, and pretty much no way of digging yourself out of your nice little ideologically-correct shit pit.

Then you can be free to enjoy economic equality - Pyongyang style.
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