From: "ben blumson" <benb-AT-freemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: more Ayn Rand nonsense...
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:20:38 +1000


>I've also always been intrigued by the way our right wing press >criticised the last Tory Government for running out of steam and not >having a programme. Was this a symptom of wanting to be led?  Surely > a neo-liberal economics supporting government should be doing just >that - 1]destroy the unions, 2]wreck welfare state 3]reduce taxes for >rich 4]remove labour/labor  laws 5]sit back, run out of steam and let >unbridled capitalism get on with it ?
> 
> Or am I missing something?

Nah- the papers have to say this because if the politicians stopped trying to reform things the press would have nothing left to report. No poplitical analyst is going to stop analysing (they'd lose there jobs) so they have no choice but to analyse the absence of anything much to do...

or maybe i'm missing something too.
cheers,
Ben

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