we're still a lucky country, page-27

Heathercam,

I do not consider myself a Patriot, although I love Australia and its opportunity and freedoms which are being eroded by Socialism.

Listening to your comments which are sounding more desperate are imo quite childish and lacking any depth, and from my experience when a person does not have facts they attack the Person.

Your thinking is a perfect example of why Female leadership is so problematic and why Gilliard failed so miserably in everything she did.

Men by Nature are able to see problems arising well ahead of them actually occurring as this is the way we were created. Men and Women are meant to compliment each other and when a Woman undermines a Man's leadership, they create a hell of a mess, as when there are no standards we all lose.

The perfect example of this is a Single Parent Pension which a Woman can receive without any proof of a man's wronging doing and without any requirement of trying to get the Relationship back together unlike Work for the Dole for eg. The Social and Economic Costs of this policy is Huge and unquantified in the loss of productivity to the Country and the Lack of Moral disciple to the Children involved.

If Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then surely Socialism is THE ONLY refuge of the dim-witted and irresponsible.

All my humble opinion and not intended to insult anyone.

snider