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panther45 commented on the diary post Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer by Michelle Chen.
Sorry. The article makes it sound like it applies to all the poor. Only a minority. Which is patently untrue. Some things the ALP has done: The Australian Labor Party Has introduced a National Broadband Network (NBN) Which will provide 100 MB/s optic fibre broadband to 93% of the population. Wireless a satellite broadband to [...]
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panther45 commented on the diary post Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer by Michelle Chen.
And this is all being done under a Labour government? Nope. It mostly happened under the previous conservative government. Unlike America we also have a free healthcare system. Which the poor are able to use.
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panther45 commented on the diary post Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer by Michelle Chen.
“The Australian government has been tightening its grip on welfare benefits through the Income Management program, which essentially dictates how the poor should spend their benefits. Participants may have about 50 to 70 percent their money placed under state control, reserved for essential items like food.” Wrong. This applies to only a very few of [...]
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panther45 commented on the diary post Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer by Michelle Chen.
This is how you spell Labor.
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panther45 commented on the blog post Obama Could Be Saved by Poor Quality of GOP Field
No kiddin. It must have taken an Einstein to work that one out.
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panther45 commented on the blog post Buh-bye Rupert! Jude Law Claims Phone Hack in New York
Unfortunately I’m not sure he has a case. The phone might have been in the USA. But the messages were all on the UK network. I could stand to be corrected.
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panther45 commented on the blog post Election 2012: The GOP’s Swing-State Governor Problem
We need as many progressives in winnable states as possible. Thats the only way the Whitehouse will listen.
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panther45 commented on the blog post Election 2012: The GOP’s Swing-State Governor Problem
Bingo! I was talking about this very same subject yesterday. It seems we very much agree. The longer the Republicans stay the bigger their unpopularity! Most should be well over 60% by next year. That should make those states STRONG blues states for a very long time.
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panther45 commented on the blog post Republicans Totally Not Disappointed with 2012 Candidates At All
I’d love to see a Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachman team.What a clean sweep the Democrats would have. Yes!
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panther45 commented on the blog post Ideology-Obsessed GOP Knowingly Courted Political Disaster with Vote to Privatize Medicare
If I was a left leaning blog. I would go out of my way to make this the issue for the 2012 election. At the same time I would also do my utmost to have liberals elected to even the most red states for the senate. Texas, Arizona and Maine are some that spring to mind. Just in case a massive scare campaign works. The tea party are doing their best in Maine to wreck the Republicans brand name. See here: http://www.downeast.com/the-tipping-point/2011/may/interpreting-approval
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panther45 commented on the diary post Brutal Numbers: Polls, Rally Attendance Show Total Implosion of Radical Tea Party Agenda by Jim White.
Great post. Wouldn’t it be better if the progressives took ownership of these issue and run with them in the primaries?
