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Again, according to liberalist doctrine maximal market competition inevitably results in optimum social and economic outcomes. Right? What will happen then, if SELF_INTEREST and HEDONISM causes PRIVATE ENTERPRISES to work together in their own SELF-INTEREST, to inflate prices. After all...

You seem to be equally unwilling to recognise the deficiencies in your argument. I've actually borrowed The Market for Liberty, but have not gotten around to reading it. I will start tomorrow. How does that sound?

Again, you cannot take America as indicative of all governments. They are notoriously reactionary and backward. I was simply stating that WAR should not be seen as rational government expenditure.

So are governments made up of benevolent angels? No they're made up by.....wait for it...greedy hedonistic HUMANS. To suggest a group of people with human nature need to exist in order to counteract human nature is ridiculous. I recognize this point and agree with it. Though you hardly...

This precisely outlines my point. It is America's obdurate refusal to implement progressive universal health care, that renders health care so expensive. Without adequate government provision of health care, it falls to private enterprise, which has been shown in America to nothing more than...

Oh please, this stinks of Austrian school. The whole notion of anarcho-capitalism is antiquated and as irrelevant as Marxism. They fail to account for the nature of human existence. Greed. Hedonism. Social responsibility. The issue of welfare. The public service. The absolute need for a...

lol, quite funny. If we are talking about debt, why don't we bring in the greatest nation of them all. The neo-liberalist, United States. I don't think you can easily acquaint fiscal and public expenditure with incidences of debt. The US spends proportionately less on it's public services than...

Good point.

Surely you're joking? The greens position on a variety of issues (i.e. economic policy, social, foreign) is as clear as day. Social progressivism is clearly their ideology. As to their position, while its naive to think they'll ever break the two party dominance, they are primarily there to...

what do you mean?

I'm quite shocked he doesn't teach senior units. A real shame.

good analysis. but when these people need to utilise public services i.e. health, defence, education, welfare, how do you see it being done? people complain about the public service but don't want to pay taxes to fix such problems. It is these people who are fucking imbeciles. Tax is...

why thank you good sir :). Who is the author of "Only Turkeys have left wings"?

Sideshow Bob, running for mayor?

thanks for the rep :)

hippie is preferable to some bible-thumping, ignorant, hawkish fuckwit. why can't we have someone moderate and sane?

bat shit insane, in terms of social, economic, foreign policy?

I'm sorry I dont understand what you mean by "freedom of the populace" Do you mean a liberal social policy? i.e. gay marriage and what not? Or broader liberalism. i.e. freedom of association, issue of censorship?

Yeah I realise the unease with the greens. I think that if they were to appeal to the broader progressive demographic, then there is hope

Whilst that is fair enough, it won't stop them voting for the idiot. I for one will be ashamed, if Abbott has to represent Australia on the world stage.