tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post5225622374265592804..comments2023-11-03T19:05:08.512+11:00Comments on Harry Clarke: Rudd banalities & handout diseaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-65510009780258434382009-02-02T15:01:00.000+11:002009-02-02T15:01:00.000+11:00Good post Harry. I have a number of friends who su...Good post Harry. I have a number of friends who supported the change of govt and 12 months later all of them are very disappointed with Rudd. <BR/><BR/>My personal view is that Rudd is trying to set himself up as a Seer, a prophet laying out the future for us. He can never be a visionary leader, his conceptual style, personal history, and character make that impossible. That is, the man is being hubristic. He is just a mundane opportunistic thinker who reads too much and lacks depth of analysis.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401232760394588049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-2833616008156966482009-02-02T12:17:00.000+11:002009-02-02T12:17:00.000+11:00Spiros:take a hike you shallow idiot.Spiros:<BR/><BR/>take a hike you shallow idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-12948223130699261282009-02-02T08:53:00.000+11:002009-02-02T08:53:00.000+11:00Obs, you appear to have caught a touch of the JCs,...Obs, you appear to have caught a touch of the JCs, obsessively responding to your own inane posts when no one else can be bothered. Unfortunately this condition appears to have no cure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-84448880650456608102009-02-01T23:31:00.000+11:002009-02-01T23:31:00.000+11:00Actually Tim Blair exposed the forked tongue and b...Actually Tim Blair exposed the forked tongue and bob each way of the Govt. There was Gillard bragging at DOHA that our banks and financial regs were an exemplar for the ROW to follow. Oh yeah Julia? Then presumably our regulators were asleep at the wheel with those exemplary regs at their disposal while Kev's Gordon Geckos were all running amok then? Which is it Julia or Kev? A bloody good question for the MSM hacks to follow up wouldn't you reckon Spiros?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-18047777695661801202009-02-01T19:24:00.000+11:002009-02-01T19:24:00.000+11:00No Spiros he basically said 'Rudd’s critique of ne...No Spiros he basically said 'Rudd’s critique of neo-liberalism of course goes too far.'<BR/>and he's right in the sense it's partisan and neglects the equal culpability of central bankers and regulators, not to mention those who enjoyed bloated tax receipts for so long. If Rudd wants to go down that path, he'll expect a similar slapdown when his slipshod bailouts and handouts fail to produce the goods and/or sends the next generation into onerous debt. Socialists fall on their sword when they run out of other people's money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-70661263354110713082009-02-01T12:23:00.000+11:002009-02-01T12:23:00.000+11:00Harry, Rudd's cririque of cowboy capitalism is the...Harry, Rudd's cririque of cowboy capitalism is the same one you've made in post and post. Because he's said it, all of a sudden you retract, purely for tribal reasons. <BR/><BR/>"I have decided to conceal my bitterness"<BR/><BR/>LOL. Harry, you have flaunted your bitterness since the day after the election!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-57720359854290744542009-02-01T10:28:00.000+11:002009-02-01T10:28:00.000+11:00It didn’t take long for this man of the people and...It didn’t take long for this man of the people and their times to emerge from among them. In their baby boomer prime they were all Thatcherites and Reaganites in favour of markets and the new tools of financial intermediation to take over old capital and run with it faster, harder and smarter, as well as assume the reins of power. In their prime when the sun never set on rising asset prices and tax receipts they were all market men full of testosterone. Approaching dotage there's nothing like a crash in their super funds to call forth their men of action and new champions. We are all Keynesians now! Sheesh!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com