Friday, June 11, 2010

More shafting going on

One of the serious but unnoticed things that happened during the Howard era was the abrogation of responsibility to our people. The conservatives withdrew and reduced funding from many basic and key services - while supporting others that would win them short-term votes. Now this was a slow and non-obvious process but it had a big effect. The main thing that Howard did was to align Government programmes with a half baked right wing ideology. An ideology that came courtesy of Rupert and other big business masters. It took them a decade but they had a lot of success and most of us didn't even notice. Some of the "rusted on" still haven't.

The largest affected area was education. As a generalisation most Australian's don't value a tertiary education. I deal with lots of people, who have never been near a University, and most of them don't think their children or grand children should either. This is the "bogan class" who have a history of voting like their parents and responding to political bribes. They are called bogan for a reason - Virginia.

Now I only mention this because I was sitting in on a conversation today where the main participants (apparently important senior executives) were discussing the RSPT. You probably know this as the "Resource Rent Tax". And the truth is that not one of a gaggle of them had a blue clue about how it is supposed to operate. Apparently this is the private sector management and leadership elite of the nation and they don't get basic maths or logic or facts! Jesus.

Now there might be many reasons for this but one that is near the top of the list is the wilful destruction of our education system by the right wingers. They don't want our people to be smart or educated - because then they will be able to question what is going on around them. And if our people could do that then they would want to change some things. This is a big and serious issue.

Or at least it is to me. The rest of you may not give a rat's arse - but I do. And the scary thing is that no-one seems to notice or comment on it.

* We have dumbed down our national education system to the point where most Australian's won't participate.
* We have a national network of newspapers that is unbelievably bad - with more lies per square inch than anywhere.
* Our television stations manufacture and present the most god-awful crap - dressed up as entertainment?
* Don't even mention the radio networks - they need an enforced enema.

All to capture the eyeballs and eardrums of the "bogan class". These are the people Rupert has spent a lifetime creating and today with his big business mates and a bunch of ultra conservative politicians is building an industry to try to influence their minds. And the rest of us just sit around and twiddle our thumbs. WTF?

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