For those of you who will be voting in the coming elections, who do you intend on voting for and why?
Australian Elections 2007
October 25th, 2007 | Austrolabe | Uncategorized
October 25th, 2007 | Austrolabe | Uncategorized
For those of you who will be voting in the coming elections, who do you intend on voting for and why?
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Greens
I intend to vote Liberal.
undecided
I was undecided for a while, but I just do not have much stock in Rudd’s ability to lead considering he cannot seem to come up with policies of his own.
Caterpillars comments about the US being in recession this time next year are viable, and what we do not need is an inexperienced leader were they to come true.
My concern with the “experience” argument is this.
Democracy works only on the supposition that experience is not a pre-requisite of running a country, state or society. If we believe that experience is mandatory, then that is the Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, and Hafeez al Assad model for national leadership. Since only they have the experience to run their countries because they have been running them.
The sister argument is that there are some periods where experience is more important than at other times, i.e. periods of turmoil and crisis and that we are going through such a period now.
That is also false logic since the future is unknowable and thus by definition uncertain, nor can the degree of volatility or uncertainty be predicted.
Therefore all periods in history are equally prospectively uncertain, and can only be regarded as stable in retrospect.
Countries are run by a governing class and by federal bureaucrats who provide the experience and advice required to make discussions.
Any fool can run a successful country, and several already have.
Reagan wasn’t a fool, Baybers.
clearly Amir, you have been swayed by that Punjabi miscreant, T cell
Dunno. Not Labor or Libs though.
I’ll probably vote LDP for the senate.
But the question is does Rudd have what it takes to run the country?
That is what I doubt about the man. He is a likeable fella, but since when was that enough to vote for? Many people probably will vote based on that though.
Shadower, what do you think would happen if the Libs won and Howard retired, as promised (LOL)? A seamless transition of leadership to Costello? Not bloody likely. Abbot, Turnbull et al would be in there contesting the leadership.
Fortunately the Libs won’t win, and hopefully the Greens will control the senate.
Amir, doesn’t this statement from the top of the LDP site make you shudder? “Individuals spend their money much more productively than governments.”
Hang around any shopping centre and you’ll see thousands of individuals ‘productively’ spending their money on coke, chips, giant TVs, silly clothes, etc, etc. Other than some food and housing (perhaps) it’s hard to think of ANYTHING useful that the average taxpayer spends money on.
The idea that ‘the common folk know best’ is ludicrously flawed.
No, it doesn’t. This is what I believe in. I have no problem with the idea that people should have more right to the fruit of their labour than the government or other people. If they then choose to waste that money on coke, chips, giant TV and silly clothes, then that’s their right (provided it is their money that they are spending and not my money, of course).
Are there any candidates from the Australian Communist Party contesting?
” (provided it is their money that they are spending and not my money, of course).”
It is, in a sense, your money. if the government spends less on hospitals so people can spend more on big TVs, you get worse hospitals. Not a great way to spend ‘your’ (as a citizen) money.
In a society there’s not really any such thing as “your money” - it’s part of a very complex whole.
Always the Greens. I cannot bear to vote Howard and the Liberals. Rudd and Labor are Liberals-lite. The Democrats no longer exist (pretty much).
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