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	<description>Free markets, capital, and entrepreneurs are the bedrock of civilisation.They dragged man out of the gutters,civilised him,dignified him,gave him liberty.Socialism is an excuse to pauperise untold millions,enslave untold millions,murder untold millions, over a century now: Why has the Liberal Party shifted to the code of savages?</description>
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		<title>Centre for Independent Studies betrays Australians.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an instalment of the follow up to, Centre for Independent Studies has caused great damage. This instalment takes up -
&#8220;Hansard will be brought to bear, to lift out the above&#8230;&#8221;
The Rudd Cabinet, in their desire to prove themselves the greatest cental planners in history, fusing corporativo and zwangswirtschaft in order to masterplan worse. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an instalment of the follow up to, <strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/28/centre-for-independent-studies-has-caused-great-damage/">Centre for Independent Studies</a> has caused great damage</strong>. This instalment takes up -</p>
<p>&#8220;<strong>Hansard</strong> will be brought to bear, to lift out the above&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The Rudd Cabinet, in their desire to prove themselves the greatest cental planners in history, fusing corporativo and zwangswirtschaft in order to masterplan worse. To reiterate, Penny Wong stated the Cabinet&#8217;s aim, in a singularly chilling statement to the Senate:</p>
<p>‘What is involved is a whole of economy approach. We are planning a new economic future for Australians’.</p>
<p>By gum, there I was assuming there could be nothing worse than mass destruction through Co2 taxation and it is wrong. </p>
<p>Let there be no mistake about this. Rudd and his gang of psychopaths are using the very arguments the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> put to excuse the economic destruction of Australians via Co2 taxation. </p>
<p>Until the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> threw their lot in with the &#8216;let&#8217;s get wealthy by larceny and destroying Australians by Co2 taxation&#8217; brigade, it wasn&#8217;t clear yet who led in the daily stakes of how to help the diseased Left to absolutism. Is it the <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong> (over labour market reform and how they brought down the Liberal Party with it), or the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong>. The <strong>CIS</strong> took a 3,000 furlongs lead. The <strong>Institute for Public Affairs</strong> is half a neck behind <strong>Nicholls Soc. Boys</strong>. </p>
<p>The only thing &#8216;neo&#8217; about Rudd&#8217;s megalomaniacal vision is, this will be the first time in Australian history that Australians will have no choice but to endure what the Europeans have found a devestating exercise.</p>
<p>The supine, &#8216;pragamatic&#8217;, economically illiterate &#8216;Right&#8217; paved the way for the danger now about to be detonated. This brilliant achievement of the gutless, statist &#8216;Right&#8217; will be the subject of another instalment on what was foreshadowed in the first item. Now for the arsenic declared to Parliament and fixed in <strong>Hansard</strong>.</p>
<p><strong><ins datetime="2008-08-29T07:27:47+00:00">Hansard Tuesday, 26 August 2008</ins></strong></p>
<p><strong>Climate Change</strong></p>
<p>Here is good old diseased Leftist, Bob Brown, who qualifies for what his <del datetime="2008-08-29T07:27:47+00:00">state ordered murder</del> euthanasia Bill prescribes, a quick end to the unpleasant: </p>
<p>&#8220;Senator BOB BROWN (2.42 pm)—My question is also to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong&#8230; </p>
<p>Senator Martin Ferguson, is hosting a meeting of some 60 vested interests in this place on Friday so that they can complain about and lobby for their exemptions from a carbon trading scheme. I ask the minister: will she or the Prime Minister be present at that meeting?&#8221; </p>
<p>Ya, what did nasty old capitalists do to Brown and his gang of spoilt, wealthy middle class brats, apart from making them wealthy? Oh, this was the crime, making them wealthy. </p>
<p>&#8220;Senator WONG—I thank Senator Bob Brown for his question. As the Senate would be aware, we released over the break a green paper which outlined in a fair amount of detail the government’s proposals on the design of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme&#8230; </p>
<p><strong>It is the case that this is a whole-of-economy reform.</strong>&#8221; </p>
<p>Bingo, there it is, the very line that Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Mao could have said. They oddly enough did but not, obviously, as coarsely as Rudd&#8217;s Kommissar for enforcing adherence to the Greens&#8217; cult of death put it. She did not hold back on stating the Cabinet&#8217;s new red dawn:</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a whole-of-economy reform and there is a whole-of-government response.&#8221;</p>
<p>I say, does this mean the might of the armed forces will be directing tremendous fire power against the &#8216;enemy&#8217;, Co2 emitting man. Will ASIO raise plans to counter Co2 subversives, enemy agents and 5th columnists? </p>
<p>Here is the element, corporativo -</p>
<p>&#8220;that ministers across an range of portfolios consult closely with both business and members of the community about their views on this issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have met with environmental groups; I told you that in my primary answer. The reality is that ministers across a range of portfolios will consult&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Here is Kim &#8220;Il&#8221; Carr:</p>
<p>&#8221; What I can say is that the government’s proposals in regard to this important initiative mean that we as a country are for the first time actually able to prepare ourselves for the inevitability of climate change and to do so in a manner which will actually preserve jobs, provide opportunities for Australians and mean that we are able to meet the challenges that we are confronting head-on.</p>
<p>&#8220;Inevitably, there will be cost increases as a result of<br />
these changes. But there have equally&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Carr is a hard Leftist and keen central planner in the Soviet style. Not scared by this telling point? Then, reconsider on digesting his continuation:</p>
<p>&#8220;But there have equally been measures taken by this government to&#8230; as we have heard from Senator Wong, to ensure that there is a proper consideration of these matters&#8230; without pretending that we can give some sort of renaissance to the climate change sceptics in a manner which seeks to avoid the inevitability of these issues.&#8221;</p>
<p>In another answer, he assured Parliament of exactly what they are about, absolutism to order economic destruction:</p>
<p>&#8220;What we have now in this country is a government that is actually committed to ensuring that this country is prepared for the future&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Wong, again:</p>
<p>&#8220;I do want to make this point This is an extremely important issue in terms of preparing this nation for future challenges and it is not an easy policy debate.&#8221;</p>
<p>That is a &#8220;porky&#8221;. It is transparent that it is all too &#8216;easy&#8217; for this lot of fascist thugs to prepare what they are about to do to Australians.</p>
<p>Lastly, the Kommissar Penny Wong puts beyond doubt, the Rudd Cabinet is preparing for outright absolutism:</p>
<p>&#8220;There should be, and that is the whole purpose of the process we have outlined—issuing a green paper and working methodically through that and the economic modelling which will be issued and made public in October as well as Professor Garnaut’s report. That whole process is a methodical, careful process of determining the best outcome for this country. I hope that the opposition over time will stop the sort of scaremongering that we have seen in recent months on this&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Scaremongering&#8221;? In the face of pschopathic thugs in  Executive office, out to seize what are nothing but absolutist powers, and impose Soviet style economics, it is not scaremongering to say so.</p>
<p>This is what the scrofulous &#8220;Right&#8221; flung into office. This is what the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> is deliberately aiding through the arsenic it calls economic analysis. This is what the <strong>CIS</strong> is lobbying for. </p>
<p>Bye the bye, Professor Sinclair Davidson, readers are keen to peruse the brilliant paper defending the CIS and its actions that you have promised. Ah, I see, you are adding the final touches.</p>
<p>On Monday, this fascinating exploration into exactly what the cleptomaniacal &#8220;Right&#8221; slung into Office will be resumed.</p>
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		<title>Rudd Cabinet is pressing for State ordered killing, euphemistically called euthanasia</title>
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&#8220;Red&#8221; Ted &#8220;the Toorak Village Idiot&#8221; Baillieu, it has been reported, fully supports the the Bill. However, this item is about whether [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Monday, I heard a snippet on a radio station to this effect, euthanasia is now the next aim. Next to what? The Bracks and Brumby abortion bills being pushed through the Victorian Parliament. </p>
<p>&#8220;Red&#8221; Ted &#8220;the Toorak Village Idiot&#8221; Baillieu, it has been reported, fully supports the the Bill. However, this item is about whether Rudd is about to do a Holland to Australia and turn it into a charnel house of state ordered murder, and that is exactly what the situation is in Holland.</p>
<p>How so? This so:</p>
<p>Senator Crossin is an ALP Senator, Northern Territory. Crossin steered a bill raised, surprise surprise, by Bob Brown and the Greens. Here&#8217;&#8217;s the evidence:</p>
<p><strong>Hansard</strong>, Senate, <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/dailys/ds260608.pdf">Thursday, 26 June 2008</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Senator CROSSIN : As the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs I present the report of the committee on the Rights of the Terminally Ill (Euthanasia Laws Repeal) Bill 2008 &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Crossin, in explanation of the report, evaded the substance of the matter. Crossin reduces it to a question of jurisdiction:</p>
<p>&#8220;I uphold the view of the Northern Territory government that Bob Brown’s bill should be amended to not re-enact the<br />
Rights of the Terminally Ill legislation&#8230;. the Territory<br />
being given back its powers&#8230; determining its destiny on the issue of euthanasia.</p>
<p>In summing up, the one way to solve this problem about the Commonwealth’s obsession with overriding Territory laws&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, if the Federal Senate is an obstacle, the back door route is through States&#8217; Parliaments. </p>
<p>The background to the mention of the Northern Territory is when the Cabinet of diseased Leftists, who run riot in the Northern Territory, in 1995 rammed through that Parliament an &#8216;euthanasia act&#8217;. The &#8216;Act&#8217; was challenged and oddly, the High Court of Australia ruled it was valid (why is state ordered murder valid?). To deal with this, the Howard Cabinet put through the &#8220;Euthanasia Laws Bill in 1996&#8243;, over-riding the NT Executive&#8217;s criminal act and ensuring &#8216;euthanasia&#8217; remains a criminal offence in Australia. These facts are recited in the speeches to the current &#8220;Bill&#8221;.</p>
<p>What of the Democrats. Well, they are now gone but Senator Allison, Bartlett relates, raised a Bill for state ordered murder. Bartlett himself, having been pestilential on many grave matters, seems reasonable on this matter.</p>
<p>He stated that it is a matter that must be debated, though he is opposed to it. The reason he gives is, what it really is about has to be drawn out. This is reasonable, but not the way Bartlett recommends, &#8216;bringing on&#8217; such bills. They bring state ordered murder an ever closer reality, because of the &#8216;legislative&#8217; force of Bills. It should be an open, &#8216;no-holds barred&#8217; debate, and this requires no Bills raised in Senate or House of Reps. </p>
<p>There is further ambiguity in Bartlett&#8217;s position statement. He cites approvingly Dr &#8220;Death&#8221; Nitschke. Then there is this bit of obfuscation:</p>
<p>&#8220;As I said, I have apprehension about whether euthanasia could be safely implemented, but I would like to see it if it could be done. I am not religious at all, so that is not the issue for me&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Unsure as to why &#8216;contradiction in terms&#8217; occurs but it is a good idea to throw it in just in case. For Bartlett&#8217;s edification, there is a completed &#8216;experiment&#8217; called Nazi Germany. He can also examine the results of a continuing &#8216;experiment&#8217; and it is called Holland. What jolly nice &#8216;experiments&#8217;.</p>
<p>Bartlett equated euthanasia with suicide, it &#8220;is a form of suicide&#8221;. Not it is not. Suicide is strictly self-murder. &#8220;Euthanasia&#8221; is someone else committing murder, even if at the request of the one killed.</p>
<p>As for Bob Brown, let his own words damn him as this bit of mendacious evasion shows:</p>
<p>&#8220;The argument is that the Senate or the parliament should not force the availability of legal euthanasia on all Australians; it should not force options. What an extraordinarily dictatorial, antipublic point of view this is.<br />
Let me, again, make this very clear: this bill will proceed.&#8221;</p>
<p>These are not the words, in the imperative, of a &#8220;wannabe&#8221; dictator - &#8220;this bill will proceed&#8221;?  Why, it was shortly enough before when Bob Brown read into <strong>Hansard</strong> the Greens updated Stalinist manifesto. This slime-ball cries foul only when the Greens face obstacles against their wildest aims and, the trouble is, what is counted extreme these days is precious little, as Rudd&#8217;s plans to destroy Australians through Co2 taxation and hard left central planning. </p>
<p>Smoke indicates fire, and it is burning. The basis of euthansia is the death cult of the fictional vicious cow called &#8220;Nature&#8221;. To this, the equation of man with animals. To drive home what is behind what is now a serious putsch to decree State ordered murder of Australians, these items:</p>
<p> <strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/05/hard-left-fronts-advocate-legalised-murder-of-children/">Hard Left Fronts advocate</a> legalised murder of children</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/06/%e2%80%98legalised-euthanasia%e2%80%99-state-ordered-murder-now-we-have-calls-for-%e2%80%98legalised%e2%80%99-murder-of-children/">Legalised euthanasia’ = State ordered murder.</a> Now we have calls for ‘legalised’ murder of children.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/07/the-nazi-cult-of-nature-now-the-national-cult-of-australia/">The Nazi cult of nature</a>, now the national cult of Australia?</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/11/reply-to-jan-fredericks/">Reply to Jan Fredericks</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Continuation of the exchange with &#8216;Anon&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This item addresses the last challenge put by Anon under, Second reply to Anon:
&#8220;wouldn’t abolishing or reducing trainee wages allow the market process to operate more freely? After all&#8230;&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This item addresses the last challenge put by Anon under, <strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/15/second-reply-to-%e2%80%9canon%e2%80%9d/">Second reply to Anon</a></strong>:</p>
<p>&#8220;wouldn’t abolishing or reducing trainee wages allow the market process to operate more freely? After all&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>To summarise the exhange to date, in reference to the clowns of the <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong> and their pal, John Day, Anon put a question in comments on apprenticeships and wages. </p>
<p>The question Anon put that initiated the exchange actually turns on: the HR Nicholls Society holds, amongst many fallacies and their subsequent crude blunders, what the  ACTU also happens to rely on to attack free labour markets; wage rates are indeterminate. Secondly, to the exchange, they hold the height of wages is decisive for employment and its reverse, and this is also false.   </p>
<p>The height of wages blunder is assumed by the nonsense of Hugh Morgan&#8217;s tripe, and parroted by Bob Day:</p>
<p>&#8220;The ratio of minimum wage rates to the median wage rate explains whether wages are either about right or too high. Wages are 58% of the median, they are too high.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wage rates are not indeterminate. They are set by the marginal value of the product of labour. The ratio of capital to labour sets the height of wage rates. This is crucial, and it showed out; the Howard Cabinet swallowed the snake oil pumped out by the <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong> that free labour markets raises the productivity of labour. The ACTU and the then Labour Party Opposition seized on this to effortless devestating effect:</p>
<p>Not only is it false, but in free markets wage rates can fall. Why? The problem is the telling ratio, capital to labour and the mvpl. Next, only capital accumulation raises wage rates, because only this raises productivity. To illuminate it, it&#8217;s all the difference between using a digging fork to plant 1,000 acres with potatoes and a single man using a massive, modern tractor hauling a seeding machine. </p>
<p>Can anyone doubt who will earn more in a period of time, the second seeding 1,000 in a day or two, or the former manually digging them in over a couple of years? Well, yes, apparently. After all, Liberal Party Ministers only echoed the rubbish labour itself can raise production. Amusingly, the Rudd Cabinet also claims labour raises production. Their twist is, mass re-education, &#8216;credentialism&#8217;, will make labour super productive, a great leap never before witnessed in history. No doubt, if enough bits of paper stamped credential are glued together, the resultant papier mache will be a machine superior to tractor towing seeding machine; except when it rains - paper tends to sogginess and disintegration in the wet.</p>
<p>It must be noted, if the HR Nicholls Society&#8217;s grasp of labour market economics was sound, they could have effortlessy have smashed the ACTU on these facts, as well as other facts of economic laws. This is why the ACTU fears Jackson, and not the insular buffoons of the HR Nicholls Society.  </p>
<p>In an article in <em>The Australian</em>, Bob Day stated that tradesmen on construction sites are doing very well under labour market reforms. Needless to say, the ACTU seized on this. Combet replied in <em>The Australian</em> with the obvious, Day committed the fallacy of treating what might be true of some as a universal truth. Combet finished off the Day &#8216;expert paper&#8217; on labour markets by observing that there are those who are not doing anywhere near as well as the HR Nicholls Society claimed they would. </p>
<p>What voters in 2005 correctly concluded was Hugh Morgan, puckering up to the ABC camera &#8216;who loved him&#8217;, telling them that they are paid too much. That, their wages must be cut, and this way Australia will prosper.To reinforce this, the HR Nicholls Society asserted that employees could be compensated by income transfers! It was truly numbing reading their &#8216;labour market economics&#8217; material.</p>
<p><strong><ins datetime="2008-08-29T02:00:32+00:00">Returning to Anon:</ins></strong></p>
<p>He put the question:</p>
<p>&#8220;wouldn’t abolishing or reducing trainee wages allow the market process to operate more freely? After all, the trainee wage is a minimum wage, not a maximum wage&#8230;Rather, a lower minimum wage rate might encourage employers to recruit those jobseekers who are currently locked out of the labour market.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is still loaded with the error of the height of wages. If jobseekers are &#8220;locked out&#8221;, it points to an effective minimum wage is in force. Though, to be sure, this is not intended to unreasonably press Anon&#8217;s statement, in view of the qualification:</p>
<p>&#8220;I wasn’t suggesting, not for a second, that wages “be forced down below market rates.” Rather, a lower minimum wage rate might encourage employers to recruit those jobseekers who are currently locked out of the labour market.&#8221;</p>
<p>It must be observed, if a prescribed minimum does not deliver unemployment, it cannot be an effective minimum. So long as a prescribed minimum is equal to or less than market rates, it is not effective. Anon&#8217;s reply raises the question of, is the prescribed minimum effective? It might well be.</p>
<p>Secondly, labour is not homogeneous. A prescribed minimum might be only a minimum in some cases, but can be an effective minimum in others. The problem is, it is not market processes setting minimums.</p>
<p>The statistic Anon gives, 45% of apprentices are paid above the minimum centrally prescribed rate is useless. The only additional remarks to be made are stresses, e.g.:</p>
<p>- Some of the 45% might be apprentices who, some time into their apprenticeship, do have higher mvpls, and so will be paid more. </p>
<p>- Some of the 45% might reflect the ACTU is enforcing closed shops and effective minimum wages. Next:</p>
<p>&#8220;After all, the trainee wage is a minimum wage, not a maximum wage, so employers would be free to pay above that rate, as many (52% of employers) already do&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>As a price floor, is it an effective minimum? This is a real concern, contained in the real problem: If it is, it wipes out the opening of some apprenticeships. </p>
<p>The trainee wage rate, however, was raised as an attempt to counteract imposition of effective minimum wage rates, and the capacity of the ACTU to extort effective minimum wage rates. The floor was actually lowered. The ALP hotly contested this in Parliament and to check here are some documents from <strong>Hansard</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=55386&amp;table=HANSARDR">WORKPLACE RELATIONS</a> AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 1996: Second Reading</p>
<p><a href="http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=43394&amp;table=HANSARDR">Unemployment: Youth Wage</a></p>
<p><a href="http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=61810&amp;table=HANSARDR">Apprentices</a></p>
<p><a href="http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=60830&amp;table=HANSARDR">Training Packages and Wages</a></p>
<p><a href="http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=59586&amp;table=HANSARDR">Youth Wages</a></p>
<p>These are only a tiny fraction of the documents in which &#8216;trainee and youth wages&#8217; is a price ceiling is the subject of the document, or one of the subjects raised.</p>
<p>To reiterate, the problem is, it is not free market processes setting rates, it is capricious central authority, in no position to discover market rates, fixing them.</p>
<p>It must be noted that employers are not bound by &#8216;trainee wages&#8217; as a ceiling. Next:</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t think the 45% statistic is completely meaningless. To me it demonstrates that employers value some workers more than others and so, I think, reinforces your earlier point that “labour isn’t homogenous.”</p>
<p>In addition to the above remarks, this sentence also treads dangerously close to Adam Smith&#8217;s error.I&#8217;m not saying Anon intended it but it does read so. Smith resurrected the erroneous notion of the value of labour. It had been demolished as false long before Smith. Why did Smith commit it?  </p>
<p>Perhaps it was because of his Calvinist background. Smith&#8217;s mistake is now a vulgar commonplace. Some clergymen, for example, echo it when they bang on about the dignity of labour and the labourer is worthy of his hire. To the former, dignity of labour, this is rubbish. Only those who hold really nice, comfy jobs are prone to this nonsense. The scholastics, drew the right distinction, work is a fact of life, we are physical beings. </p>
<p>They asserted the dignity of the man, not work. They held no nonsensical, mystical sentimental belief about work. They simply said, we have to work, we have to produce, in order to live, advance, prosper. They did not insult modest men, women and children that in their day engaged in backbreaking, and for some also very dangerous work to earn modest pay indeed.</p>
<p>The scholastics observed market prices was for the labour supplied. There is nothing personal about wages. Market rates are not an insult, it is the value of labour at the time. </p>
<p>The problem is, to say employers &#8216;value some workers more than others and so&#8230;&#8217; injects a false moral note that obscures labour markets and the economics of labour markets. Let&#8217;s put it in the ACTU&#8217;s slang, &#8220;Fair pay for a fair day&#8217;s work&#8230;equal pay for equal work&#8221;, also committing the fallacies of indeterminancy and, from perfect competition, labour is homogeneous.</p>
<p>Adam Smith also committed the error of indeterminancy, and this leads into the next matter Anon raises:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;a lower minimum wage rate might encourage employers to recruit those jobseekers who are currently locked out of the labour market&#8230;.I can’t see what is wrong with this:</p>
<p>“The solution lies in allowing… tradesmen and apprentices, regardless of age, to negotiate indenture agreements which satisfy both parties.”</p>
<p>Bob Day&#8217;s expression is  &#8216;indentured apprenticeships&#8217;. Now either this is a silly misuse of language, to appear scholarly by throwing in an anachronism, indentured, or it means exactly how it reads, binding apprentices to an emplyor. Day asserts that this will resolve retention of apprentices.  Let&#8217;s return to more errors committed by Adam Smith, and Mr. Jackson who remarks:</p>
<p>&#8220;According to Smith employers can force labour into “compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number can combine much more easily”&#8230;. </p>
<p>&#8230;Smith is viewing wage rates as indeterminate&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p>[<strong><a href="http://brookesnews.com/063110hrns.html">The H. R. Nicholls Society torpedoes the case</a> for deregulated labour markets</strong>]</p>
<p>Observe that Smith also commits the fallacy of &#8216;imbalance of power&#8221;. As another example, in this quote Smith committed both errors:</p>
<p>&#8220;[They] should receive a wage sufficient at least to support a standard of living that allows them to participate actively and fully in the community.&#8221; (Wealth of Nations)</p>
<p>The HR Nicholls Society committed it too, and the importance of this is: The ACTU asserts &#8216;imbalance of power of employer over employee. Day commits it too and, unfortunately, so has Anon. Anon must appreciate that in the insular, narcissistic world of the myopic &#8220;Right&#8221;, they don&#8217;t believe the man in the street should draw conclusions and act accordingly, they should do as they are told. Also, the callous &#8220;Right&#8221; believe in benign tyranny and hold rather feudalistic sentiments, and the man in the street acts. We can be sure of this because not only did the HR Nicholls Society blow the fight for reform out of the water, they blew up the Liberal Party with it. The man in the street told this lot of arrogant prigs:</p>
<p>&#8220;Nick off. We are not your slaves.&#8221;</p>
<p>They did so in the 2007 election when enough put on their steel capped, hob-nailed boots and sent the Liberal Party scudding across the House onto the Opposition benches.</p>
<p>Lastly:</p>
<p>&#8220;Here’s another statistic for you: around 53% of trade apprentices fail to complete their training. Again, I can imagine some people (I’m sure you can guess who) claiming that increasing trainee wages would help reduce the high drop-out rate.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure &#8216;who&#8217; would say that. I certainly would not say that. However, the matter of retention is part of the HR Nicholls Society&#8217;s desire to press &#8216;indentured&#8217; labour. They believe employers must be an updated version of vassal lord? They have delivered enough evidence to say they in fact do hold this peculiar notion, leaving:</p>
<p>Employees should be grateful to an employer for taking them on and they are ingrates for daring to consider leaving employers. And, accept humbly whatever an employer capriciously decides to pay them.</p>
<p>It might be those who do not complete have found a different line of work that for them pays higher, which means they are engaged in work that has a higher mvpl. Secondly, these alternative jobs might also lead to greater opportunities into the future. It is rational to leave jobs that are dead end streets - short with a hard stop at the end. Yet, this is a subjective matter; some-one&#8217;s dead end is another&#8217;s open highway.</p>
<p>It is possible to list infinite reasons and motives but this has nothing to do with the matter in hand, wages and generation of apprenticeships. It is not the height of wages that is the trouble. It is whether effective minimum wage rates are in force, and whether Union closed shops are still asserted. I do note Bob Day&#8217;s concern for the unemployed. Unemployment is vicious, but it is not cured with abject nonsense purveyed as the analysis of labour markets. </p>
<p>To the contrary, abject nonsense destroys sound correction, as the HR Nicholls Societ masterly destruction of the fight for reform demonstrated. Now what do we see? These cretins blaming Howard for what they did. At least one of these unctious moralists, Bob Day, whining about their inability to obtain labour, preferably in vassal form. These illiterates still doing their best to ensure the campaign for reform is permanently buried. This lot are as much responsible as the ACTU is for this abysmal state of affairs and the appalling upshot of high unemployment. They supplied the ammo to ensure this abysmal state of affairs. </p>
<p>The saddest thing is, Liberal MPs, did not challenge the HR Nicholls Society clubmen, including Peter Costello and Senator Nick Minchin. They did not seek out sound alternative advice. Committed to the ignorant man&#8217;s intellectual heights, pragmatism, they swallowed the snake-oil and lived long enough to tell Australians what a wonderful potion it is. Then they died.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Rudd&#8217;s new way,-corporative andzwangswirtschaft, iit was putwhether the Rudd Cabinet&#8217;s grand plans might not be a fusion of Corporativo and Zwangswirtschaft. It&#8217;s worse.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/07/rudds-new-way-corporative-and-zwangswirtschaft/">Rudd&#8217;s new way</a>,-corporative andzwangswirtschaft</strong>, iit was putwhether the Rudd Cabinet&#8217;s grand plans might not be a fusion of Corporativo and Zwangswirtschaft. It&#8217;s worse.</p>
<p><strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> has caused great damage. Along with their pals in the <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong>, <strong>the HR Nicholls Society</strong>, Michael Kroger and his chums, and this is only a short list of the unprincipled ignoramuses, including Peter Costello who have not merely strangled the Liberal Party. They have done far worse than this. They paved the way for Rudd and co. </p>
<p>There is one other thing to muse before launching into the rub of this piece. Perfect competition, as a fiction is thus not only no explanation of markets, and pertinently free markets. It discredits the effort to defend free markets, a thoroughly sound and moral cause. It smashes the effort. Next, it supplies ammo to interfering politicians. Take regulation as an example, an abysmal one at that.</p>
<p>Regulation  is not the rule of (common law). It is taxation and strangles markets. It also serves Statism, incipient absolutism. The assumption of Perfect competition is why The Centre for Independent Studies and the IPA have failed over decades to fight for and defend free markets. </p>
<p>It is why, to the contrary, they provided advice on how the Executive can increase regulatory control over Australians, and continue to do so. They did this during the decade of the Kennett administration and the 12 years of the Howard administration. </p>
<p>Combined with their execrable conduct, these wreckers, and their fellow cleptomaniacal, narcissistic dunderheads of the &#8216;Right&#8217;  not only helped to fling Rudd into Cabinet. They laid the foundations, paved the way for Rudd and what he is about to do to Australians. Senator Wong, Rudd&#8217;s chief priestess for the Greens&#8217; cult of death and economic destruction through Co2 taxation announced on Monday:</p>
<p>&#8216;What is involved is a whole of economy approach. We are planning a new economic future for Australians&#8217;.</p>
<p>Who else said much the same thing? Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and his gang of butchers, Pol Pot, and Castro; that&#8217;s who.</p>
<p>Wong&#8217;s short sentence boomed across the Senate did send a chill down the spine.</p>
<p>A couple of months ago, Rudd&#8217;s senior ministers declared, many goods will have to be scrapped for Kyoto compliant replacement products. They include heating appliances, kitchen appliances, a whole range of appliances, tools and whatever other apparently evil device that &#8216;hurts itty wittle bubba mad mudder bloody nature&#8217;. </p>
<p>Co2 taxation will wipe out energy companies and thus firms will also collapse because there will be no energy. Assume, however and for some mystical reason they survived. What are they talking about? They are talking about destroying efficient lattices of production and dictating new capital combinations be set up. This alone, it is easy to discern without stepping through all the implications, is staggering in force. As with Wong&#8217;s announcement, it is also incipiently totalitarian. </p>
<p>The week before, we had the Bracks&#8217; plan unfurled, billions to be squandered on a &#8216;volk&#8217;s&#8217; car. Needless to say, more larceny to support another scam, in something no one is prepared to freely buy.</p>
<p>Today, Rudd&#8217;s Cabinet of brown pantalooned dictators announced, extensive price controls, but guess what? They use the euphemism &#8216;price standardisation&#8217;. They are also all for breaking up companies, because this is what &#8216;anti-trust laws&#8217; are about - attacking consumers, destroying efficient firms, and protecting those who produce nothing much at all.</p>
<p>45 % of farm operations are genuine enterprises, producing 92% of total agricultural output. The remainder are loss making, not by any stretch of the imagination consumer serving, &#8216;lifestyle&#8217; indulgences subsisidised to the hilt. This 55% are supporting &#8216;anti-trust&#8217; measures.  Two of their their &#8216;MPs&#8217;, Bob Katter and Tony Windsor, relying on the falsehood of perfect competition, declared the ACCC is a toothless tiger; supermarket chains should be broken up; that there should be a central price fixing board setting &#8216;fair prices for farmers&#8217;. They declared, &#8216;the notion of serving customers is wrong, it misses the point; without farmers they will have no food&#8217;. </p>
<p>Knock out the 45 % of genuine agri businesses producing for consumers, running to markets. and let&#8217;s see what we have. The 55% that are so good Australians would starve to death if they relied on them for supply. </p>
<p>Listening to what the Rudd Cabinet has declared in Cabinet this week, it is hardly exaggeration to speak of his &#8216;grand plan&#8217; as not simply central planning, though this is damning. There is sufficient in what they have laid out to date to begin calling it Corporativo and Zwangswirtschaft.</p>
<p>These developments are reinforced by what is an increasingly strident attack on free markets by:</p>
<p>-ALP members</p>
<p>-ACTU thugs, who were vociferous this week against free markets</p>
<p>-Bush socialists pretending to be businessmen and women</p>
<p>-Staggeringly, Liberal MPs! This is correct. Some who did so, to be sure, are too stupid to realise this is what they are doing, and have never been enlightened by the likes of the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong>.</p>
<p>The above is brief,but today has been another of unceasing interruptions. So, one apologises to readers for being light on the juice this week. Tomorrow, however, will be a Festshrift day. Hansard will be brought to bear, to lift out the above. A few outstanding matters will be written up. And, <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong>, <strong>the HR Nicholls Society</strong>, and the rest of the death rattling &#8216;Right&#8217; will be hammered again, including on the matter of how they laid the foundations, paved the way for Rudd and what he is about to do to Australians.</p>
<p>It is chilling: Australians are being trampled over by a pack of venal psychopaths, the zombie &#8216;Right&#8217; and the diseased Left. After all, it is the zombie Right who set up their own &#8220;let&#8217;s destroy Australians through Co2 taxation cheer squad&#8221;, and too many of them hope to make billions from pretending to be junior high school cheer squad girls and larceny courtesy of their pal, Kevin &#8220;Little Mussolini Rudd&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Centre for Independent Studies fails in economics. Why?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> are not the only outfit running on flawed economics. Neither does it suffice to only finger also the <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong> and the <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong>, and rather too many holding precious Liberal Party seats in Federal and State&#8217;s Parliaments. </p>
<p>If it were only a matter of buffoons playing at economics, there would be an end of it. Oh, apart from irritated Liberal Party members groaning under the deadweight of &#8216;nincompoops&#8217;. The root problem is the fiction of perfect competition. Hayek nailed it, concluding that it is no competition at all. Why? It&#8217;s a fiction; it does not exist. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not only a &#8220;Rightwing&#8221; affliction. It is ground into every economics undergraduate in Australia. It is rote learned, textbook bound dogma. Sadly, as is all too apparent, not many, very few indeed, intellectually matured and escaped the great myth they are rooted in. </p>
<p>In the core textbooks:</p>
<p>1. Eckert and Leftwich assert that it is the logical starting point and analysis of action.</p>
<p>2. As also, Begg Fischer Rudiger and Dornbusch.</p>
<p>Interestingly, Begg abandoned perfect competition when one telling absurdity dawned on him : it is also the justification for destruction - the breaking up of firms by coercion in the name of ensuring &#8216;perfect competition&#8217;. Or, what in the US is called &#8216;trust busting&#8217;, reinforced by the &#8216;anti- trust&#8217; Sherman Act. </p>
<p>Fittingly for a fiction, perfect competition involves a hornets&#8217; nest of fallacies, such as horizontal demand curves. To the contrary, all demand curves slope down and no exception has been found to this fact. The central point is, it is not theory, explanation in economics; it&#8217;s a fantasy. </p>
<p>It is unfortunate that it was raised as &#8216;mainstream&#8217; economics, because of the force of what that means. The upshot is not only failure in economics. Great damage has been caused on great matters, and continues to be caused because of it. The CIS&#8217; position on Co2 taxation is another rotten instance of this record of failure. </p>
<p>The above is given as a general statement. It will sharpened as required in other items. For now, that it is orthodoxy in Australia points to why there is no debate and cut and thrust and why debate is suppressed. </p>
<p>Honest debate does entail those committed to the fiction having to face up to itty bitty difficulty that their intellectual foundation is quicksand. The killer is, perfect competition has been demolished. This sets up something nasty for the work shy in the <strong>CIS</strong>, <strong>IPA</strong>, and <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong>, rectifying fundamental spadework is required.</p>
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		<title>Centre for Independent Studies and Professor Sinclair Davidson yet to respond</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> refusal to answer for its disgraceful lobbying for Co2 taxation is understandable. It has hung itself, and has retreated behind its steel doored, bolted, clubrooms. There&#8217;s an interesting snippet to this. What of Sinclair Davidson?</p>
<p>Monday and Tuesday were filled with interesting irritations needing attention. The hiccups over, a couple of things this week are noteworthy, one for a separate item. Is it true, as reported early Monday morning, that ex-Prime Ministerial &#8220;wannabe&#8221; and another great, unprincipled, Liberal Party wrecker John Hewson is a front man for interests hoping to make squillions out of, surprise, surprise, Co2 taxation? </p>
<p>Hewson was also reported as saying kyoto compliance will generate a flood of jobs and make all Australians wealthy? I suppose he means all will become wealthy bankers, lawyers, and &#8216;alternative energy&#8217; con artists. Noting, as the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong>, the absurdity involved in the notion that in mass economic destruction, through Co2 taxation lies economic progress and growth. This is the metaphorical &#8216;war is good&#8217; fallacy. </p>
<p>Hewson was hailed by the left dominated media Monday morning as a leading economist. Well, the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong>, <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong>, and the <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong> do rate themselves as distinguished economists. The diseased Left dominated media, for some obscure reason, don&#8217;t care to disabuse neither the public nor them.</p>
<p>The question to answer is: do the venal brigade Hewson is lobbying for also pay the <strong>CIS</strong> to campaign for Co2 taxation? Having identified at least two conflicts of interests that hang the <strong>CIS</strong>, how many more are there involved with the CIS, interests seeking to enrich themselves by demolishing millions of Australians? It&#8217;s a question that must be answered.</p>
<p>Given what is at stake, the antics of the <strong>CIS</strong> and their two fan clubs is revealed for how scandalously contemptuous they are of Australians. What have they been whining about? Criticism of what they are campaigning for. The callousness and narcissism is revealed in full daylight: they don&#8217;t give a damn about what the impact will be for millions of Australians. What really counts is themselves. It hurts them that their position is demonstrated to be the pack of fallacies it is and worse. Lobbying for it, they are also deceiving the Liberal Party, Party members, and Australians. </p>
<p>As for the good Professor Sinclair Davidson, we shall break up the concern here into two, the second in a separate item, which is the next item to be posted today. First off, then, Davidson seems strangely loathe to publish an article in which he debates Jackson&#8217;s criticism of the <strong>CIS</strong> position, as parroted through the Humphreys paper. </p>
<p>It is to be noted again, Davidson&#8217;s &#8216;blind alley&#8217; complaint, &#8216;Jackson mistreated Humphreys&#8217;. Why the blind, Sinclair? No, it couldn&#8217;t be true? To smear Jackson and deflect attention from the arguments put by Jackson?</p>
<p>How could have Davidson overlooked: There was no ad-hominem attack against Humphreys in Jackson&#8217;s articles. Jackson criticised the &#8216;economic arguments&#8217; put in the position-lobbying paper. </p>
<p>Davidson, it seems, holds to a novel notion of intellectual engagement. Cut and thrust, and incisive incineration of, flawed, bad, and worse propositions are nasty habits. These days it is, no doubt, intrinsically a &#8216;hate crime&#8217;. This runs against the history of not only economics, but also science, law, theology, philosophy, history, and archeology. Not much progess was ever made when nonsense and rubbish have been passed, except for a mere quibbling at the edges. </p>
<p>What makes Davidson&#8217;s objection genuinely unconscionable is, it is not merely a debate over theory. It is a debate about a proposition, Co2 taxation, which is staggering in its impact should it be imposed. It is inverted immorality to whine against anyone who makes the effort to apply the blow torch to this and, indeed, any proposition an Executive - the Cabinet, is contemplating imposing. Is Davidson asserting that any proposal contemplated by the Executive, even a good proposal, should not be scrutinised and debated in public? </p>
<p>Does Sinclair recognise the incipiently absolutist force of that strange notion? Does he hold, as many of the scrofulous &#8220;Right&#8221; do, the man in Australia should merely obey a self annointed &#8216;elite&#8217;, rather than be presented with principled justifications that they might support? The economic illiterates of the <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong> took this approach on Labour Market reform, and the voters told them to &#8220;get stuffed&#8221;. </p>
<p>Having also remarked on Davidson&#8217;s snide and false dismissal of Jackson&#8217;s standing as an economist, here&#8217;s another challenge:</p>
<p>Noting Davidson&#8217;s credulist belief in credentialism:</p>
<p>I challenge Professor Davidson to enquire of Dr. Frank Shostak, who held a University Chair in economics. I challenge Professor Davidson to ask Dr. Shostak for his assessment of Jackson&#8217;s work in economics, and his evaluation of Jackson as an economist. This is besides all the other references one cited in the last item on the scandalous conduct of the good Professor Sinclair Davidson.</p>
<p>So, two challenges are issued and the betting is, all &#8216;can whistle Dixie until the cows come home&#8217;. Then, is it not true Professor Davidson, along with your Rightie clunker tank, anti-free market pals, it&#8217;s never been anything but about smearing Jackson&#8217;s reputation as a genuine free market reputation? The reason why, is  pretty well summed up above, and also that this pack of parasites can&#8217;t be exposed for shallowness - bang goes the unearned revenues and pay.</p>
<p>Oh, Jackson isn&#8217;t the only talent they have attempted to bury, which will be expanded upon in another item. Attempted is, of course, not the same as succeeding, and this distinction also upsets &#8220;Sinkers&#8221; Sinclair, the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> and, at that, also the <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong>, and the <strong>HR Nicholls Society. </strong></p>
<p>However, Sinclair, there is now many who can&#8217;t wait to see your masterpiece in rebuttal of Jackson&#8217;s strictly economic analysis and criticism of what the <strong>CIS</strong> laid out through the Humphreys paper. A published paper, Sinclair, out in the open, over the Internet. If it is effortless to do as the impression you convey of it is, this should be a rather painless exercise for you. </p>
<p>You aren&#8217;t telling readers you are afraid, are you Sinclair? After all the put-downs and bon-mots you have littered comments boxes on other sites with, showing you are supremely confident of the <strong>CIS</strong> position and your capacity to defend it, isn&#8217;t it niggardly, Sinclair to refuse to do what you demonstrate you are willing to do? Why refuse readers what they are excitedly anticipating; a solid, sustained response demonstrating, as you keep on banging on about, Jackson has got it wrong? </p>
<p>I defy anyone to call Sinclair a coward. It is plain he is not. It is plain he has delayed publication of his rebuttal for all to read over the Internet, because he has taken great pains to prepare a real treat in the neatest, most soundly, rigorously argued paper in economics written for some time. </p>
<p>A paper of such aesthetic quality even the layman could not fail to acknowledge the prowess, the mastery and incisiveness of Sinclair&#8217;s formidable genius. A genius heightened, as he appears to boast of, by him being a &#8216;professional economist&#8217; and no mere rank amateur.  Indeed, with such a list of qualities, I wonder how I could have under-estimated Sinclair. Only one conclusion is possible:</p>
<p>Sinclair will put up, because if he can&#8217;t then it is obvious:</p>
<p>He has a bit of repair work, such as issuing very public apologies, and generally undoing a great deal of damage caused by his &#8216;Rightie&#8217; pals that he has, so far, been a willing party to. </p>
<p>Surely such a decent and courageous Professor, as Sinclair must be, fully appreciates why all the above is the decent thing for a good professor to do? That he sees his public duty and will do it?</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greg Lindsay and his <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> are having a major breakdown. It’s sad really, they are ruining their comfy clubrooms. Good and they brought it upon themselves. </p>
<p>What has tipped them over the edge from their ususal whining, stamping their feet, screaming and sobbing, is obvious. Exposure for what they stand for and are through the looking glass of their full support and lobbying for the economic destruction of Australians through Co2 taxes. They tipped themselves over the edge the day they crossed the line and became lobbyists for larcenous parasites.</p>
<p>It must be repeated that these actions, including of those paying for the campaign, entails violations of the tax. Violations carry prison sentences. It is easy to spot, so it can be safely assumed the ATO have. Targets usually discover the ATO are after them only when they are hauled before a judge and sentenced to the University of Criminals.</p>
<p>Bye the bye, the Business Council of Australia has broken ranks with the Right’s clunker tanks <strong>CIS</strong> and <strong>IPA</strong>. They probably threw Hugh Morgan overboard too, noting Hugh ‘the WMC atomic bomb’ Morgan, and Ron &#8216;the lurching Ronnie&#8217; Walker also hope to make squillions out of Co2 tax destruction day (these two are consistent). This morning the BCA came out and declared, ‘Carbon taxes will destroy companies Australia wide.’ I suppose the <strong>CIS</strong> could try to tell the BCA Co2 taxes are &#8216;costless&#8217;, if they fancy having their heads torn off.</p>
<p>Greg Lindsay and the <strong>CIS</strong> are twisted, as well as brainless, to deny science and economics in the fight against Co2 taxes and the excuse for it, the diseased Greens’ lies. Malicious also in smearing those who had the hide to point out what is wrong with their position. Abandonment by the BCA adds a comic touch. The deranged entombed in their clubrooms they soaked donors mulit-millions for.</p>
<p>It might be a lonely feeling, publicly exposure for intellectual fraud in economics and science. Shame, however, doesn’t disturb them. This, shame, however, doesn’t disturb them. </p>
<p>It is a mixture of hubris, resentment, bitterness, schizophrenia, anger, and thwarted venality, that shows out. To cap it off, the ATO breathing down their necks. This is a recipe for a hideous, tremendous breakdown and the <strong>CIS</strong> and Greg Lindsay are full of it. So are the <strong>IPA</strong> and the HR <strong>Nicholls Society</strong> in all but the ATO respects. Consequently, Lindsay blew the bottom of the barrel to find Humphreys to do his dirty work on Co2 taxes. And, dredged up a troll club, <strong>Catallaxy</strong> and the <strong>ALS</strong>, to make him and the <strong>CIS</strong> feel important, good, loved, and to mount a non-existent defence. </p>
<p>They, the troll club, are the same as diseased Leftists Quiggin and Lambert and their trolls. They wield rubber knives and use them, fishwives blowing bubbles and sticking their tongues out on various sites. Why, we have been treated to another titbit of little girls training to be vicious fishwives in action, Ess and.</p>
<p>Not, though, to grumble. To the contrary, they have delivered a pleasant surprise. These guys go out to what they call hunting and stab their noses every time. Lindsay and the <strong>CIS</strong> are in the middle of a very big crack up to rely on clowns like these hissing &#8216;poody cats&#8217;. </p>
<p> Ess has kindly comments by the good Professor Sinclair Davidson. What backstabbing, snide remarks Davidson has fathomed this time? Are they his typical raspberries or a truly ingeniously infantile chunder? What a surprise. </p>
<p>Davidson, a-typically, has finally acknowledged Mr. Jackson’s superiority in economics, though snidely, smearingly, grudgingly conceded as his statement shows:</p>
<p>&#8220;he has no professional qualifications, no professional affiliations and no professional publications. He is, at best, a gifted amateur - and a fine amateur he is too.&#8221; </p>
<p>Firstly, though unable to say what degree, it is certain from his articles Jackson went up to University and read economics.It is also obvious he didn&#8217;t stop there, and became the fine economist he is today. He is recognised internationally as theoretician and leading exponent of Austrian school economics. In addition the ACTU acknowledges Jackson is formidable and this is why they fear him, unlike the clowns in the clunk tanks. The ILO hold Jackson is essential reading. But wait, there&#8217;s more recognition:</p>
<p>Economists I correspond with and since Sinker ‘the sinking man’ Davidson is impressed by credentialism, they have Phds, are forthright about Jackson&#8217;s work, the esteem it and him too. I have met others in very serious positions, and the uncanny thing is they have all remarked they find him incisive:</p>
<p>&#8220;Jackson has an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a matter&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>And sort it out accurately and swiftly. Indeed he is, as this example shows:</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.brookesnews.com/050108libreforms.html">Liberal Government and labour market reform</a>: more fallacious attacks </strong></p>
<p>It is as well to recollect seminal advances in theory were made by men without degrees and those with but not in economics. Keynes produced his poison having expended all of a single term of lectures in economics. </p>
<p>It is awfully decent of Sinclair Davidson to concede Jackson is intellectually formidable in economics. It is rare for amateurs, no matter how brilliant, to lead in a field. It takes work, application, matched by depth and breadth, virtues the <strong>CIS</strong>, <strong>IPA</strong> and <strong>HR Nicholls</strong> are devoid of - and these crippling defects have been remarked on by very serious people I am acquainted with. They are virtues Jackson is fully possessed of, as his work shows.</p>
<p>Still unable to help himself, Sinclair threw this gem in:</p>
<p>&#8220;His response to Humphreys was unacceptably poor - reflecting his amateur status&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>What’s the matter, Sinkers? Upset stomach over Jackson demolishing the CIS pack of lies, put through Humphreys, effortlessly, from Austrian capital theory? If, as you say, it is ‘poor’, then you must demonstrate why, in public. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Jackson let you publish a rebuttal on <strong>Brookesnews</strong> on where Jackson’s analysis is wrong. He&#8217;s let others reply on his site (only to demolish them all over again). </p>
<p>It is clear why Professor &#8216;Sinkers&#8217; Sinclair won’t confront Jackson directly. It&#8217;s called cowardice. All that is seen of Sinkers is him running around sites doing nothing but trying to damage Jackson&#8217;s reputation as an economist. What  sort of &#8220;Professor&#8221; does this, sacrificing truth and honesty with it? </p>
<p>Sinclair then writes:</p>
<p>&#8220;his spear-carriers have further undermined his previously good reputation as a commentator by their silliness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Smears, now lies. I, for one, have not met Jackson.  My attack on, for example, Co2 taxation and the disgusting CIS fraud, has melded Austrian economics and case studies. This is a different approach to Jackson’s, who is arguing strictly from within solid economic theory. </p>
<p>He happens to also bring it to bear for the benefit of the public in his articles. The <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong>, <strong>IPA</strong>, and <strong>CIS</strong> are such cowards they even refuse to account for themselves to the man in the street. They run away. Instead, they lickthe boots of the diseased Left dominated media, put risible &#8217;submissions&#8217; to Parliamentary Committees and unheard outside, and which in sum state “We are here to see Australians drink all the arsenic the government can pump out.’ This is a very strange notion of fighting the Left and advancing good causes.</p>
<p>Then, this lot cannot fight good causes. They destroyed the campaign for labour market reform. They discredit the free market cause in general, effortlessly. They claim to be experts on Hayek and show how illiterate they are on Hayek and perforce the Austrian school. </p>
<p>As for Humphreys, he is on the same wavelength as Andrew Andy Pandy Kemp and Chris the Castroingo Kid, pulseless. The CIS-Humphreys paper is as excruciatingly bad as the garbage pumped out by these two unfused bulbs.  Indeed, the only reason why I bothered with the Humphreys paper is that it is the CIS position and spring for its lobby campaign.</p>
<p>Jackson’s treatment of the lobby paper was, in my books, extremely generous to a pack of thugs acting as lobbyists for a pack of bastards. A pack of gibbering soakers who give a stuff about destroying Australians through carbon taxation. </p>
<p>In his feeble efforts to defend the <strong>CIS</strong>, Davidson smeared Jackson. However what does it disclose about this ‘good professor’ that he defends the intellectually indefensible, and a crew of larcenous parasites who don’t give a stuff about destroying Australians?  Davidson’s concern for poor Humpers is inverted morality. </p>
<p>Hmmm, to check again, if Jackson were a mere amateur, besides his mastery of theory, how could Jackson have delivered a thorough demolition of the Berg-Kemp pack of flies called “Islam and the Free Market”, in an excellent survey of the history of economic thought?  Oh, this still hurts Davidson, and given that one also ripped into Berg-Kemp, I enjoyed demolishing it all over again when these bright sparks proceeded to make the same claim about the history of philosophy and theology. It was unforgettable reading Sinclair pleading to Amir to never refer to it again.</p>
<p>Now, I simply cannot help myself, but I recall a Sinclair Davidson – Castroingo Kid Berg paper. The measure of how bad it is distilled in one superficial sentence declaring production is nothing more than ‘making things’, mere little home cottage industry that won’t be missed if wiped out. In this paper, they pressed again the demand for destruction through Co2 taxation.  </p>
<p>We have a real problem today, the fascist Kevin Rudd Cabinet and it’s lust for central planning. The Davidson –Berg reflects why, over the decades, the ignorant Right have caused great damage and paved the way for Kevin Rudd and his fascist gangsters. Then, there is Jackson&#8217;s demolition of that junk.</p>
<p>That is the best Greg Lindsay and the Centre for Independent Studies can manage in their defence? Whining fishwives wielding plastic knives behind the backs of their betters? Who else would be stupid enough, apart from the diseased Left, to go into bat for measures that will destroy Australians and Australia? Right now, it is Rudd and his Cabinet of fascists and the treacherous Left who love these bastards. In the meant-time, how is the lobby business looking now, Greg Lindsay?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it for this week. Concentrating on the <strong>CIS</strong> this week has been no indulgence. The reasons why are glaringly obvious. Not that we shall desist. To the contrary, we will stitch them up again next week when attending to other matters, such as Kevin Rudd&#8217;s lust for grand central planning, and how this pack of psychopathic morons found themselves in Government. </p>
<p>To Anon, not forgotten next response to your last. Will also put it up next week.</p>
<p>Happy weekend Lindsay. </p>
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The federal opposition has called for a national solar payment to encourage more home owners to generate solar power.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having said it once, it is time to say it again.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://news.smh.com.au/national/calls-for-national-solar-feedin-tariff-20080428-292p.html">The federal </a>opposition has called for a national solar payment to encourage more home owners to generate solar power.</p>
<p>Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt on Monday said a draft plan should be prepared for a national tariff&#8230; .</p>
<p>&#8220;A national solar feed-in tariff could provide an immediate boost to domestic solar power uptake.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Hunt also told the Climate Action Network Australia conference that the nation needs to develop large-scale projects to create baseload solar power.</p>
<p>&#8220;Much needs to be done on this front in relation to cost, reliability and storage of energy.</p>
<p>Former prime minister John Howard&#8230;. argued that renewable energy sources like solar and wind could not provide baseload power using existing technologies.</p>
<p>Mr Hunt said the coalition now has a vision of Australia becoming the world&#8217;s first &#8220;solar continent&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Howard remains absolutely correct. Hunt is a moron and a disgrace. Three hot red Greens&#8217; ministers in the Howard Cabinet -</p>
<p>Ian Campbell   David Kemp  Malcolm Turnbull</p>
<p>Now, Greg &#8216;the blathering uber Toorak village idiot&#8217; Hunt. Has Hunt asked Red Ted Baillieu whether he can swipe the mantle? Thought not.</p>
<p>This fith rate ignoramus, ignorant in science, economics and law, read &#8216;law&#8217; at the University of Melbourne. Mind, a degree in law is no guarantee at all graduates are learned in anything remotely germane to law. Just joking. Today, it is a guarantee that they are totally ignorant in law - look at Nobel prize winning jurist Peter Costello.</p>
<p>The majority these days believe common law is quaint tribal practices, and this is no joke. They are grounded in the rule of dictators, &#8216;positive law&#8217;.  Ask them a serious question requiring sound scholarship to answer and they stare back, blankly - a good sign of cretinism.</p>
<p>Reading law, as Hunt explained, makes him a physicist. Thus, ex cathedra, he declared the Greens&#8217; lies are all true. For some unfathomable reason he reminds one of the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong>, but this can&#8217;t be right. They at the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> know, apart from John Humphreys, they are peddling lies and economic arsenic. Hunt is the Federal Liberal Parliamentary Party&#8217;s Humphreys. Well done Hunt, spastic extraodinaire with wood leaves on crossed bicycle spokes.</p>
<p>Having said it once&#8230;. and, why, it was only early this month too! </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/08/greg-hunt-mp-has-done-australians-a-great-service/">Greg Hunt</a>, MP, has done Australians a great service</strong></p>
<p>To repeat:</p>
<p>Hunt is typical of what Michael Kroger and Peter Costello have done to the Victorian Liberal Party, with Federal and State positions and seats, as aided and abetted by their gutless comrades in:</p>
<p><strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong>, <strong>The Centre for Independent Studies</strong>, and the <strong> Institute of Public Affairs</strong></p>
<p>Stuffed it with cretins, while suppressing the rabble called genuine Liberal Party members.</p>
<p>Federal Liberal MPs cried crocodile tears in Parliament over a family that sunk a sum into &#8216;pholtovaic cell production&#8217;, subsidised to the hilt of course, and went broke because an admin technicality cut the supply of stolen private property into their coffers. Serve them right for being a willing party to larceny and receiving stolen goods.</p>
<p>For the benefit of this little snivelling brat, Greg Hunt, apart from all that has been written on why &#8216;alternative energy&#8217; is a complete economic disaster that will destroy Australians, he might care to ponder also this:</p>
<p><strong>East Europeans fear climate policy pinch  By Anna Mudeva - </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MUD448609.htm">GORNO OSENOVO, Bulgaria</a>, July 28 (Reuters) - Many pensioners in the Bulgarian village of Gorno Osenovo, <strong>who go to bed with the sunset and wake up at sunrise</strong>, have never heard of carbon dioxide. They don&#8217;t get electricity either.</p>
<p>But a new plan by Brussels to make European Union energy companies pay for the carbon dioxide they emit from 2013 threatens to&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Poland is also concerned about possible closures at its huge mining industry, which employs some 140,000 people.</strong></p>
<p>Back in Gorno Osenovo, the villagers have been let down by renewables. <strong>Three years ago a Bulgarian company erected several solar-powered street lamps but the light went off a few months later.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, darn, what was it that the CIS is lying about&#8230; Co2 Taxes are costless and it doesn&#8217;t destroy capital!</p>
<p>This bastard could be a CIS &#8216;gun&#8217;, or Malcolm Turnbull:</p>
<p>&#8220;These countries have to do something. It&#8217;s a long-term policy and they need to start now,&#8221; said Colette Lewiner, director Energy, Utilities &amp; Chemicals at consultancy Capgemini. &#8220;They can do a lot, not just waste energy for nothing.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right Lewiner, that&#8217;s why they want real &#8216;renewable energy&#8217;, such as economically efficient coal based power companies and not bloody solar panels that Hunt believes will power even his sunbeam house.</p>
<p>Oh, dear, and here&#8217;s someone who also terrifies the brainless <strong>CIS</strong>, <strong>IPA</strong>, <strong>HR Nicholls Society</strong>, and inbred congenital idiots occupying precious Liberal seats:</p>
<p>Gerard Jackson:</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.brookesnews.com/060910solar.html">Lefty journo</a> pushes green solar scam </strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://brookesnews.com/072210journalism.html">Stupid journalists</a> promote the great solar scam</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3894.html">Why a Carbon Tax </a>Would Hit Living Standards </strong></p>
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		<title>Centre for Independent Studies are Lobbyists</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was put as a question in the article, Centre for Independent Studies are lobbyists? (20/8/08).
The evidence is incontrovertible but, because of the implications, it was proper to give Greg Lindsay to say to the contrary.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was put as a question in the article, <strong><a href="http://rumcorps.net/mangledthoughts/2008/08/20/centre-for-independent-studies-are-lobbyists/">Centre</a> for Independent Studies are lobbyists?</strong> (20/8/08).</p>
<p>The evidence is incontrovertible but, because of the implications, it was proper to give Greg Lindsay to say to the contrary.<br />
<strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong> and the <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong> are treated as charities and thus protected against taxation. This treatment also means they are free to make profit in certain types of investments at a very small percentage of a tax rate, if any tax. This a nasty irony since they wish to wipe out the capital entirely of many companies via Co2 taxation. Naturally, donors enjoy full tax deductibility for their contributions. The amusing thing is, the Lobby business is a business, and so not tax sheltered at all.  </p>
<p>The inference is stark naked. Both the <strong>CIS</strong> and donors, on whose behalf they are lobbying for the imposition of Co2 taxes, are in breech of the tax regime. It follows that an ATO criminal investigation into all of them is a prospect Lindsay and those ‘donors’ now face.</p>
<p>This item, curiously enough, does a kindness to Greg Lindsay. Doing the <strong>CIS</strong> a kindness is  not even in my vocabulary. Ah! the twists and turns of outrageous misfortune. If, after all, one can draw such inferences, so can the Australian Tax Office. </p>
<p>The Australian tax regime, and how it is enforced is hideous, with real entrepreneurs running real firms being targeted and then treated as the most dangerous criminals in Australia by ATO, and Judges who no longer give a stuff about their real duties to Australians. The ATO spies into affairs none of its bleeding business long before the victims find out (when they are suddenly on the receiving of stasi-land, pseudo-criminal charges and a gang of heavies shoving their fists into their victims’ faces). However, an ATO investigation into the <strong>CIS</strong> and the interests it serves by lobbying for Co2 taxation is an exception: it won’t disturb me, unlike ATO’s persecution of genuinely productive enterprises, their owners and entrepreneurs driving them.</p>
<p>This is what Gregg Lindsay gets for taking on cretins as his guns, and then lobbying for the economic destruction of millions of Australians for the benefit of a very few larcenous parasites:</p>
<p>A heap of trouble Lindsay was blind to and is still blind to, and it shows. If he were brighter than he is, he would not have crossed the line. Now he has to look over his shoulder to spot whether the ATO is running after him with a hatchet. </p>
<p>There isn’t much point in him turning to the interests he&#8217;s lobbying for. These treacherous, larcenous bastards don’t give a stuff about him either. Besides, now that the penny is dropping, they will soon enough, if they are not already, be trying to hide from the ATO too. </p>
<p>PS.  It occurred to me long before that there are real problems and did publish indirect warnings on this site. Not only the <strong>CIS</strong>, but interests behind the horrendous, criminal Co2 tax scam obviously chose to ignore them. How stupid are they? Since they are still diving to the bottom of the ocean, it is impossible to tell.</p>
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		<title>Centre for Independent Studies has two fan clubs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Lindsay, typical of the zombie right, did not expect his lobbying for Co2 taxes would be challenged. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greg Lindsay, typical of the zombie right, did not expect his lobbying for Co2 taxes would be challenged. </p>
<p>The rotting &#8216;Right&#8217; do not believe they should defend any proposition they put. By proposition, readers will understand it is an act of charity to name their garbage propositions. Much less do they expect they should have to fight. This is why they lick the boots of the hard left and their pretend foes in the ALP. Pretend foes? They stick to each other like glue, they fear having to face Australians out in the open. </p>
<p>The myopic Right call debate, criticism, and just fights disloyal. What has loyalty to do with it. In general, all are informed by economic action and its complelement law. Membership of the Liberal Party is because of principles and not obedience to a pack of venal pillocks. </p>
<p>Though the diseased Left desire the impostion of the collectivist ideal, as far as one is aware, Australia is still, at bottom, a Common Law country, in which the individual is absolute and all their real rights - despite not only the diseased Left&#8217;s efforts to destroy them but also the Statist Right&#8217;s contempt for the genuine foundations of Liberty - and let&#8217;s check this:</p>
<p>To reiterate, zombie Right MPs clamoured for suppression of free speech over the internet. These are of the same stock of bastards who, in the name of the Liberal Party, sold out the real rights of Victorians by preparing the anti-bill of Rights and the Blasphemy Act Bracks rammed down.</p>
<p>The Kennett administration not only turned the ATO and the STO, with their advisers drawn from the <strong>Institute of Public Affairs</strong> and the <strong>Centre for Independent Studies</strong>, into a crime syndicate, and prepared the anti-bill of Rights. Having previously put it as a question, it can be concluded it is true that they also prepared the Blasphemy Act, as the  timing suggests. It can be assumed to be true since none of them are willing to state in public that they did not do this. </p>
<p>This lot are the same in such crucial matters as the treacherous Left. The treacherous Left are making a concerted effort to have Andrew Landeryou&#8217;s site shutdown, and for the same reasons the absolutist Right desire to outlaw free speech Australia wide: they don&#8217;t like being exposed for what they are. This is another demonstration of why one has frequently remarked the distinction between Left and Right is only the former are believers in another savage religion called socialism. [1]</p>
<p>The Right don&#8217;t believe it but do not object to inflicting this barbaric religion because their motivation is themselves, their egos, their wallets, their lust for power, and to be adored by mere kulaks. The last motive is, amusingly, an affectation of the diseased Left to convey the lie that they really are decent types who humbly serve the modest man. </p>
<p>Oh, the treacherous Left seek adulation too. But, they are not blind to the fact that modest Australians detest them and that the only reason why they are ascendant is the cleptomaniacal Right are loathesome, lying, treacherous bastards too.</p>
<p>To purvey the appearance they the narcissistic Right are universally adored and loved, they have encouraged fan sites. Three of them are Murdoch newspapers sites and to whit, in the persons Tim Blair, Janet Albrechtsen, and Andrew Bolt. Two sites are dedicated to the anti-free market, lobby company called the <strong>Centre of Independent Studies</strong>. They are:</p>
<p>Catallaxy<br />
Australian Libertarian Society.</p>
<p>Feeling their hurt, the second have come out batting for their heroes. Can the limp wristed bat?</p>
<p>I&#8217;d intended to do what Humphreys claims he cannot do, and this is not correct either.</p>
<p>TerjeP is also  a devotee of libertinism, which is not genuine liberalism. It&#8217;s the Australian version of the American intemperate, confused sorts, who happen to plump their votes with the US Stalinist Democrats Party. TerjeP has saved me the time required, not much, to call up some and only some of the damning evidence. I thank TerjeP for acting as gofer.</p>
<p>In linking the page, it is clear TerjeP also doesn&#8217;t realise the grotesque errors in economics committed in the not simply Humphreys paper, but the CIS advocacy paper. Neither, the distortions, fabrications, falsehoods and the  transparent self-serving evasions Humphreys persists with.</p>
<p>To line them up, the articles linked in <strong>Centre for Independent Studies are lobbyists?</strong> (20/8/08):</p>
<p>By G. Jackson: </p>
<p><strong>Carbon taxes and Keynesian insanity</strong></p>
<p><strong>Why is the Centre for Independent Studies supporting the destructive carbon tax?</strong></p>
<p><strong>The real costs of the greens’ carbon tax</strong></p>
<p>The CIS propaganda issued through the daily blurter Jon Humphrey:</p>
<p><strong>Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia</strong></p>
<p>Courtesy of TerjeP, this act of self-strangulation on the Australian Libertines Society,</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/the-gerry-chronicles-carbon-tax-bad-economics/">The Gerry chronicles</a>: carbon tax &amp; bad economics</strong></p>
<p>These brain envious cretins of the ALS direct preference votes to the ALP. This is the scrapheap from which ranks Greg Lindsay selected his hot &#8216;free market&#8217; gun to front the &#8216;let&#8217;s destroy Australians through Co2 taxes&#8217; lobbying effort.</p>
<p>[1] It is extremely difficult to distunguish between bloodsucking parasites of the Right occupying precious Liberal seats out to suppress free speech, their &#8220;we&#8217;ll put lawyers onto anyone who exercises their right of free speech&#8221; professional dole bludgers in the anti- free market clunker tanks and hard Left bastards who continue to try to shut Andrew Landeryou down and abusing the law in the attempt (as Landeryou has related). Anyone who pretends, even on this score the sadistic Right are any better than the treacherous &#8216;Right&#8217; is not paying attention to what these cretins really are. </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2006/11/exclusive-oc-blog-of-freedom-granted.html">EXCLUSIVE</a>: The OC Blog of Freedom Granted Everlasting Life By National Library </strong>:</p>
<p>&#8220;Comrades in the employ of TheAgeBC and their running dog ALP preference biatch Stephen Mayne have disputed the OC&#8217;s right to publish news and political commentary. </p>
<p>&#8220;They believe in free speech as long as it agrees with them, they talk human rights at inner-city all-night dinner parties but when the day dawns they pull on the shiny black boots of censorship fascism&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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