What is it with left wing governments and debt?
Discussion
Just noticed this piece in the DT – “Australians pay thousands to slim down overweight public servants”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australi...
And yet –
“Disclosures about the weight loss program come after it emerged that 40 federal Australian MPs were using a travel allowance to pay off their second homes.
Mr Rudd is currently facing falling popularity after his government presided over the largest budget deficit on record. The country's economy is now $58bn in debt and is not expected to return to surplus for at least another six years.”
So, I suppose socialist governments lose grip of everything once they’ve spent all of the tax payer’s money on their unnatural social engineering experiments. Is it cyclic, one party gets in and spends so much they bring their country to its knees, and right of centre governments come in to pick up the pieces of years of failing naïve ideologies, once the electorate have realised the world isn’t a Disney-esque ‘social fairness’ (irrespective of how much, or how little one contributes) utopia with a never ending money tap (usually funded by the very companies and employees they pretend to despise!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australi...
And yet –
“Disclosures about the weight loss program come after it emerged that 40 federal Australian MPs were using a travel allowance to pay off their second homes.
Mr Rudd is currently facing falling popularity after his government presided over the largest budget deficit on record. The country's economy is now $58bn in debt and is not expected to return to surplus for at least another six years.”
So, I suppose socialist governments lose grip of everything once they’ve spent all of the tax payer’s money on their unnatural social engineering experiments. Is it cyclic, one party gets in and spends so much they bring their country to its knees, and right of centre governments come in to pick up the pieces of years of failing naïve ideologies, once the electorate have realised the world isn’t a Disney-esque ‘social fairness’ (irrespective of how much, or how little one contributes) utopia with a never ending money tap (usually funded by the very companies and employees they pretend to despise!
Eric Mc said:
How left wing was Ronald Reagan - or Gorge W Bush? (Or Adolf Hitler for that matter).
As soon as I hit the Submit button, I realised that there will be many instances of right wingers doing the same - I was just thinking of what's happening now .... I should have edited my post......
Eric Mc said:
Lots of governements of all persuasions love to spend other people's money. The only difference is what they chose to spend it on.
Indeed, and it's about time they stopped!!!The people should choose what the government spends their money on!
A nice sentiment, I know, but will never become a reality sadly.
Spiritual_Beggar said:
Eric Mc said:
Lots of governements of all persuasions love to spend other people's money. The only difference is what they chose to spend it on.
Indeed, and it's about time they stopped!!!The people should choose what the government spends their money on!
A nice sentiment, I know, but will never become a reality sadly.
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