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- From: suter@fawlty8.eng.monash.edu.au (Mr D. Suter)
- Subject: Re: Fightback II! - Fightback meets Godzilla
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.032853.4200@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University
- References: <chris.724908505@suite.sw.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:28:53 GMT
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- In article <chris.724908505@suite.sw.oz.au> chris@suite.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby) writes:
- >Well, Ray, I guess you must be in a real quandry now. After you put
- >all that effort into defending Fightback Mk I, the weak-kneed leader
- >goes and strips out all that good "incentivation" tax cutting, and
- >makes the whole package look like something from the Labor Party.
- So what have we seen - Hewson is (perhaps!) as weak-kneed as Keating?
- Have you really so short a memory that you have forgot Keating's
- big retreat from the GST?
- Which is just one more example of how you can't win. If you change
- your policy in relation to perceived voter feelings, your enemies call
- you weak-kneed. If you don't, then you're an arrogant dictator
- (even worse than that Kennett?).
- >How will we ever afford a BMW now?
- Must ask Keating how he does it - eh? Since when did it become a crime
- to want a system where one can prosper? (Oh, I can here the simple glib
- reply now - "since your prosperity comes at the expense of others." Trouble
- is that such simple minded approaches usually lead to lesser average
- prosperity and a general anti-tall poppy syndrome.)
- BTW *I* don't want a BMW anyway but even if I did I can't see
- it's relevance to rights or wrongs of national economic policy.
- >
- >I guess you'll have to vote for Keating now to prevent the bleeding
- >heart liberals taking over the country; or do you know something that
- >we don't?
- >
- >Enquiring minds want to know...
- I guess that's close to a tautology.
-
- Interestingly, if you are even half serious in the above, then it
- would appear that you will be voting for Hewson yourself. You claim
- the new fightback is "like something from the labor party" so
- presumably you don't object to it. Hewson is at worst as
- weak-kneed as Keating and at least he hasn't claimed
- we needed a recession and that he delivered it deliberately. Looks
- a pretty one sided competition from your standpoint - when are you
- going to start handing out Liberal how to vote cards
- (Yeh. Enquiring minds want.......)
-
- Merry Xmas from an atheist.
- d.s.
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- David Suter - Dept. of Electrical and
- Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University,
- Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia
- ph 565 5682 Fax 565 3454
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