Mangled Thoughts

Before proceeding, in case anyone has not seen as much as they could tolerate of SBS’s `World according to Bush, Bolt has detailed some of the many lies told in it. One stands out, accusing Bush of equipping Saddam with the materials for chemical and biolgical wmds, yet running the line , Saddam had no wmds?! Bolt must be into S & M, he has, evidently, closely watched the propganda film , right down to the credits. SBS didn’t simply purchase the celluloid pack of lies, it was directly involved in its production. On the other hand, entirely consistent of SBS, after all, they, adulate that commie whore Coxsedge. Not forgetting either, SBS, until it was brought to the attention of the govt. ran a proganda service for the communist regime of Vietnam.Bias, who said anything about bias, downright commie propganda machines both SBS and ABC. And they still expect real taxpayers to be compelled by god almighty fat blackmailing, extortionate govt. to keep their obese , usless fat commie hides into the `lifestyle’ they believe is theirs by some goddamned twinky divine fucking right, bull bloody shit. They can end up in the gutters, the bastards can starve.

Yobbo ignited discussion at Troppo Armadillo
with solid points. Hastily threw in this morning the five cents worth as below:

3MBS is an independent classical radio station, not. by force of govt., kept at real tax payers’ expense.

It is worthwhile noting, the orchestra and opera companies effecting a transition away from govt. and so tax revenues: they are making increasingly commercial decisions: as one officer of one of the companies said: we are now actually delivering a programme of productions which serves not just a general audience, but segments of all who are devotees of classical music and ballet.

A very good point is shown up: until `national medical schemes’, medicine was an enterprise, driven market. Until, in Oz, govts, supplanted practice as a profit earning market, including hospitals, medicine was, very inexpensive: in the 60’s and early 70’s modest wage earners in very large numbers held top cover medical insurance.That is how cheap it was. Govt. imposed consumption of those services is a bottomless pit: neither the federal govt. nor states’ govt. no matter how much they tax and spend will stop the decline, and there a number of major reasons why.

By contrast,companies running profit earning hospitals and hospices are delivering services consumers will pay,and, they are increasing the capitalisation: they are increasing what they deliver. Again, there are major reasons why that is the case, including no waiting lists.

Each dollar a govt. takes in tax is actually a tax on the payer of , at the minimum, $3. What it actually is difficult to establish but I suspect each $1 taken by govt. is a tax on the payer of $4-5 dollars, before compounding since that is money the payer cannot invest in enterprises over time.

Govt. regulation is a tax, and is a tremendous sacking of capital. Take, real case, a light processing firm which supplies cut salads in plastic packets to retail chains. Each year, it has to stump up $500,000 in cash to meet OHS regulations which serve nothing at all but useless jobbers called bureaucrats and inspectors. The consequence is, the company will not increase working capital and output, and, consequently employ more people because of the losses entailed in that act of fraud, the annual licensing charge. After union thuggery, it must be marked, OHS compliance lifted the per unit price of Heinz output at the ex Dandenong factory, those two things were , to say the least, the major reasons why it was shut down.

ABC’s nominal charge is not$580m per annum, it is $700-800 with an additional $200 or so ms. /yr fro its commercial shops.

But just take the $580m, the real tax slug is only a few bob short of $2billion per annum.

The argument, no good thing can be done in free markets is rubbish. To the contrary, govt. takeover, schools, medicine and so forth is marked by their debasement.

ABC should be sold off, to sink or swim.

As for bias, the matter is not merely one of `balance’, throw in say 2/3 RWDBS to balance 3, 10, how many employees of ABC and mainly lefties.

No.
1. Accuracy in all factual statements. Not `interpreting them. Commentary: sound argument and not the injection of personally held beliefs, by explicit statements, even mannerisms. There in, the standards of ABC are vulgar, crass, coarse_ the frequency with which presenters resort to slang is itself an indication of that.

That is bad enough, couple it with unmistakable politically motivated bias, the ABC is a disgrace. That is not unique to ABC either but what makes it even more immoral is that it is committed at taxpayers expense. This goes right to the heart of the ABC union’s overthrow of Dame Leonie Kramer in the early 80’s. Her position was: to lift ABC to objective high standards, including other non-news programmes. The lefties won out and it shows.
This is distinct from whether ABC should continue to be kept. No it shouldn’t be kept any longer. The trouble for ABC, to set it up on a commercial basis would be difficult, it would sink, precisely because of the shallow, callow staff, both by the self-indulgence in programme content and their leftoid thuggery to what would be required to run it efficiently.

It is a mess , a mess compounding the theft of taxation - taxation is theft of property, enforceable only on the threat by govt., each tier of at that, to use violence against citizens if they refuse, by way of `criminal charges’, `fines’, and also `prison sentences’ . An extortion racket which imposes real economic losses which means many remain poor. An extortion racket driven by the scams of govt. consumption, ABC is one of them, so is Medicare, so is the NIC, and `free universities. So is DSS.Let ABC sink or swim.There is no justification whatsoever that many should be forced to pay for others’ entertainment. Those who wish to view ABC let them, and them alone pay for it, as also classical music , which I enjoy too but believe it should not be at the expense of others, others should not be compelled to pay for my interests by the act of govt: extortion and blackmail.

ABL pointed out something, cf. Yobbo crucial also:

The cross mediaship laws do nothing good. They entrench Packer as a dominant firm. Fairfax wanted an interactive news service with F2, and to fully expand it, but cross mediaship laws, in conjunction with the ass backwards doling out of datacasting, radio and TV rights, mean we all get oligopoly service, Packer is strong but doesn?t actually maximise profit by servicing more people.

to ABL’s point, dropped in the observation:

What is stopping further in roads is regulation of broadcasting and `license? fees.Fiat regulation, as also of the fiat `law’ radio and t.v. will be digital in 2006 - backed by all parlaimenatary parties, has just punished amore innovation by entrepeneurs in broadcasting. Free markets can deliver, and should be left to it, but interfering govts. corrupting markets and slugging all they can extract throw more than mere spanners, try cement sqaure axles two tons each - how would your cars drive with them slung to the undercarriage, eh?

As stated above, if bias were not a problem, that they are kept by taxpayers by coercive police state power by the govt, remains objectionable to say the least.

The notion that on a free enterprise basis good news and c.a. cannot be produced is bunk:

Jim Leher News Hour - excellent
Jim Leher Business report
Preston’s `World’s Most dangerous Places Series’ -excellent

It can be done and notice, just those three programmes are produced at a fraction of the cost of anything SBS and ABC

produces

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It is more than just ABC and SBS, however, as alluded to in my first comment. To, this, one will proceed to elaborate in a separate item. For now, I draw reader’s attention to :

The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation
by J.G. H?lsmann

One shall return to the subject one has in view.