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Absolutely!
Beazley and his little group of quasi-intellectuals, quasi-moralists would have done exactly the same thing. Politics has more and more become a game of pragmatism: ruthless pragmatism, opportunism, self-indulgence, self-aggrandisement, self-serving, greedy enterprise, much like almost every other corporation. Parliament has its own Bonds and Skases and Eliots and Rivkins and...
There's little left to make laws for. It's all given away. Laws will be made by thugs and the common man will be (has been for at least a couple of decades now) in no position to argue. QANTAS-type tactics cannot be fought for too long.
I'm wondering though, who'll be buying the cr@p their factories will be producing if there's no one with any money around? What will we be doing? I can see up to a point into the future but then the picture becomes incomprehensible.
I'm very sad for my children and their children -not to mention this generation of oldies!