The Right’s callous contempt for the unemployed
In, Tim Blair attacks the Left for their callousness, but not the Right. Part III,(29/4/2008), attention was drawn to, amongst other miserable failures, Soon’s deliberate deception and smears he published on the Leftwing site, Lavartus Paredo. These offences are compounded by the deceit of not only Soon, but rather too many of the Right and their “free market think tanks”. The deceit compounds their repugnant contempt for those made unemployed due to fixing wages above real market rates.
Soon deceived those readers in pretending it is the Right and their think tanks that defend the unemployed and empathise with them in their plight. None of their statements I have read and heard supports that claim. Thus, it is understandable why the Left made headway also on this matter.
In misleading the public, the Right also suppresses the truth and smears genuine Liberals who do defend the unemployed. Having mentioned three gentlemen who are noted for defending the unemployed, a little expansion is in order, since they smeared one of these three, Mr. Jackson.
In the first instance, reading carefully Mr. Jackson’s articles on labour markets, defending the unemployed is ever present. The true, sound economic explanation alone eviscerates the false claims of those who consign many to unemployment. It is a solid moral fact Jackson has reiterated:
Imposed effective minimum wages is a brutal assault on many Australians. Giving many Australians a 100% pay cut is savage. This is only one of the many points Jackson has stressed in his many articles on labour market economics. However, Jackson has written articles dedicated entirely to extended defence of the unemployed. Here are two of them:
The Liberal Government and its supporters must stop kicking the unemployed
Compare even only these two items with the slops put out by the brutalist school the Right.
A less charitable chap might say Soon not only smeared a fine economist, he also told a lie. He is, though, a vicious fishwife, who holds a worthy place with the best of them - the likes of Quiggin.
Coming from Soon and and Co, though, defending the unemployed by kicking the poor sods in the groin when they’re down has to be acknowledged as compassionate concern.
Mr. Tim Blair, what a decent gent of a pal you have in one Mr. Jason Soon, the intellectually and spine challenged juvenile that pretends to be an adult and an economist.
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