hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Democracy for sale
"'You don't want democracy for sale.' - Kevin Rudd at a March 4, 2008 joint press conference with federal Treasurer Wayne Swan[...]
Here's a rare look into the shooting gallery. It comes in the form of an offer document to the corporate sector being circulated by Labor HQ in the interests of raising money for the party. And on any measure it's Kevin Rudd who's up for sale.
Under the auspices of the Federal Labor Business Forum here's how that offer goes; it starts with a $15,000 package which entitles two company representatives to meet Labor's "rising stars", attend a three-day retreat to "liaise with the entire ministry, discuss specific issues with ministers in smaller settings, and hear an address from the Prime Minister"."
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Need it be any clearer? Our two major political parties, one of which always becomes the governing body in this nation, are, in a matter of speaking, corrupt. Both (yes even the so called 'labor' party) direct policy in the interests of corporations and other bodies with tens of thousands of dollars to spare for the privilege. You see, the more money one of the major political parties receives for this sort of service, the more it has in the bank to spend on election campaigns and other vehicles of career promotion for its constituents.
The public wastes a significant amount of time exercising its 'democractic rights' by taking up opposing sides on issues that the political parties in cohort with their contributors bring to the table as opposed to those that individual citizens bring to the table. After all, who's going to listen to you, a mere 'citizen', your just a needle in a haystack: so much for modern Democracy.
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