FTA II
Niall on my post on the FTA
Skimming the pond brought up a visit by some soul from a typical right-leaning site with a little to say on the AUSFTA issue. I say ‘little’ because that’s essentially all there is. Hardly enlightening and not very surprising, but rather depressing to realize these people still exist.I guess he’s depressed because right-leaning sites still exist with opinions that differ from left-leaning sites. Get use to it Niall. The left is, was and always will be a minority. Niall goes on to quote Academics but they only talk of possibilities. If this were to happen then this may result. Are we to believe that Howard hasn’t taken advice from academics? Are we to believe that the people who advised Vaille aren’t competent or should we only accept the opinions of people Niall believes are knowledgeable on the subject? Let?s face it, the Left don’t exactly have a good track record on fiscal management. In fact their record stinks and this is one of the reasons they never get the keys to the treasury bench. Niall poses the question;
The big question which Latham has raised with his wildcat (Kilkenny?) strike on Howard, quite literally out of the blue, is why Black Jack simply won’t accept the proposed amendments to the enabling legislation, if indeed the patent and intellectual property laws governing pharmaceuticals in this country are structured such that ‘evergreening’ is a non-event.I think the question we need to ask is why doesn’t Latham follow his Senate enquiry recommendation and accept the FTA as it is. Why doesn’t he let it through. He said it would if the enquiry recommended he do so. And as the Australian editorial suggests;
That this issue did not dominate anti-FTA arguments until Monday also indicates that Mr Latham’s fascination with patent law is remarkably recentmaking the whole affair look like a left-wing ploy to keep face. Myself, I still think he’s appeasing the left and hoping to pick up some greenie/Dem votes by US bashing. Niall again
Whether Latham is anti-American, which is quite honestly laughable, is not the subject in question.Very much the subject in question. After his intemperate language and name calling…the most dangerous President etc a majority of voters consider Latham anti-US. The US do, us conservative people do and most of the left either believe he is or hope he is. Thus the voter can’t ignore the possibility that the posturing, poorly presented as it was, carries the taint of anti-us rationale. This quote from this afternoons PM puts the question in perspective
ALEXANDRA KIRK: When you go down to the local malls in your electorate, or schools, or morning teas, are people talking to you about the free trade agreement?
PETER LINDSAY: No, what’s in the back of their mind is just simply this ? because I have the largest defence base in the country, it’s very much in their mind that the Leader of the Opposition’s had eight different positions on Iraq, and soldiers and whatever, and now they’re seeing he’s had four different positions on the free trade agreement, and that’s really unsettling, because if the Leader of the Opposition aspires to be the prime minister of the country, then it’s a serious business and you can’t be continually changing your mind and making mistakes.You see, people don’t respond to twenty page legal opinions. They read the facts, discuss it and lump it with other factors and make a judgment on who they think would be better as leader. The fine print they leave to government leaders and advisors and trust them to get it right. Niner Charlie writes
Labor Senators on the Senate inquiry into AUSFTA did not conjure up Labor?s demands as conditions of AUSFTA passage. The AUSFTA stand-off is all Latham?s creation for internal Labor Party factional reasons. Recall that Latham was elected leader of the Labor Party in December 2003 by just one vote, with the solid support of the Left faction. Latham is a prisoner of Labor’s Left faction, with political debts to ideological troglodytes who detest free markets, abhor democratic capitalism and hate the United States.and Gnu Hunter says
Latham and the ALP are fools if they vote down the golden opportunity that is the FTA for the sake of appeasing the Left of the Labor party who oppose it on no other ground than it is a deal with Americans.Meanwhile AUSTRALIA’S peak industry group today urged the Federal Government and opposition to quickly resolve their bitter dispute over the US free trade deal. Australian Industry Group (AiGroup) chief executive Heather Ridout said industry and business were frustrated by the impasse on Labor’s proposed amendments to the agreement.
Ms Ridout said she believed the debate over Labor’s amendments was mainly about politics. “The PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) has been the issue right through the free trade agreement negotiation, it’s obviously (of) concern to the community,” she said. “But politics is never good for business. “I think we really would like both parties to show leadership and say let’s move on.”As I see it now, Latham can’t back down so it will be incumbent on Howard to get the FTA through before he calls an election. But as we know Latham has eight positions on the Iraq war, four on the FTA and god knows how many on other important matters. Like a wind vane.
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I’m waiting for Naill to stand as the Independent Wicca candidate for Lilley agaisnt McKenzie and Swan.
Nothing like putting your money where your hairy mouth is.
Now that would be good. At least I’d be able to ID him then.
Actually Kevin, I find it all rather depressing that someone with your age and experience under his belt continues to live such a narrow lifestyle with such a bigotted mindset. Still, as you say, minorities will always exist, except you picked the wrong one. You righties are already extinct. You just can’t accept it.
Actually Niall, I find it all rather depressing that someone with your age and experience under his belt continues to live such a narrow lifestyle with such a bigotted mindset. Still, as you say, minorities will always exist, except you picked the wrong one. You lefties are already extinct. You just can’t accept it.
Niall might have the age but bog sitting is the experience everybody has and not classed as a qualification.
Heads up, Kev
There’s a troll under the bridge.
Filthy ugly one too, left his shit all over the place.
Fire mission follows- wait out.
Poor old Niall; he, like most of his kind, live in the magic pixie world of the ’70s when they strode the world like kings- well maybe commisars of an autonomous collective (as long as they had the final say). I know these people intimately, much to my disgust- but everyone is entitled to be dumb when their young; to continue to be dumb in middle age is a sign of possession of recessive genes. The left has only ever had marginal clout in the West at the best of times- at the height of the anti-war moritorium era in the late ’60s and ’70s the best they could manage here was four years of Whitlam, and in the US they managed to get Nixon elected over George McGovern, a war vet with an unblemished record but the rancid albatross of the hard left hanging around his neck.
Cuba is looking like a good option, Witchy-Boy, but you’ve got a bit of competition from the voodoo fans and the worker’s paradise will last as long as Ol’ Beardy keeps inhaling.