Archive for January 16th, 2009
Gillard: pay increases bad, price rises good
Posted by John, January 16th, 2009 - under Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics
Comments: none
I filled up my car a day ago. It cost 90 cents a litre. Today the same outlet has the price at $1.11 a litre. That’s a 23 per cent increase overnight. No bluster and outrage from Julia Gillard about how these price rises will cost jobs. No condemnation of the massive increase, or the […]
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Obama – change you can’t believe in?
Posted by John, January 16th, 2009 - under United States.
Tags: Capitalism
Comments: 9
There’s an interesting post on Larvatus Prodeo on Obama, (http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/15/obamachange/), criticising the left for being negative about Obama. Here’s what I posted on their site (a good site to read, by the way.) It is slightly edited to fix up a few typos and other errors. I and other critical lefties are being painted as […]