Understanding Economics
Haha!
How can one man be so wrong?
UPDATE! Lifted from the Greens website linked above:
FURTHER UPDATE! According to the same Greens website,
And do you really believe market forces set prices? How foolish you are. Where is there demand for $4 gas? yet its all over. There is a demand for $1 gas but you see none of it do you. Capitalism is the ultimate example of price fixing and corruption. Its as bad as the old communist system.Thom Lyons, Former Greens Candidate
I have no demand for a $2 gallon of gas but I do have demand for a 50 cent gallon, BUT the free market doesn't seemed to be reacting to my supply and demand.
Socialism is the syetem of choice is the most prosperous countries.
How can one man be so wrong?
UPDATE! Lifted from the Greens website linked above:
With over 10 years of university studies and 2 Bachelor's Degrees with work on a third plus work on a Masters Degree, he is one of the most highly educated Greens and potentially a great asset to the State Government.What to say?
FURTHER UPDATE! According to the same Greens website,
Thom's expertise is in Transport and Veterans' Affairs, having written the Party's Veterans Affairs Policy and co-authored the Transport Policies.And here is the Victorian Greens Veterans' Affairs Policy. Okay, it's not actually a policy in its own right, it's a part of their Community policy. But why let such trifles spoil the man's policymaking achievements! Behold, the mighty Veterans' Affairs (sub) policy in its entirety:
12. Veterans.Wow, crafting that must have drawn on all of Thom's two and a half degrees of expertise. One can only imagine what his contribution to the Transport policy consisted of.
12.1 Targets.
12.1.1 The Greens support the development and implementation of a national Greens policy that addresses the special needs of veterans, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans and Allied Veterans meeting the proper residency requirements.
12.1.2 The Greens recognise that veterans have been subjected to physical, psychological, atomic and chemical stress, with severe impact on the health and well-being of themselves and their families and dependents. Particularly vulnerable groups are those veterans who were subjected to chemicals such as Agent Orange, and to ionizing radiation during their services, either during the British atomic tests in Australia, or during their post war overseas services in the Hiroshima prefecture after World War II, and also government employees and civilians who were also subjected to ionizing radiation arising from nuclear activities.
12.1.3 The Greens also recognises the particular needs of the more than 7,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans, their families and dependents.
posted by James Waterton at 12:52 pm
4 Comments:
LOL. He is only “potentially” a great asset to the state government!! Hilarious. Although, it’s an accurate and warranted modifier, since the man has never been out in the world, or in a real job, so one can only contemplate his “potential”, since to date, his abilities have been confined to theory and being a student.
I also just adore the boast that he is “one of the most highly educated Greens”. I guess most of them drop out before finishing their undergraduate degrees. Then again, now that I think of it, there are a lot of “greenies” with PhDs, so why is this little twerp, after TEN years of study, mostly at the undergraduate level, being so praised for raking up a HECs debt that he’ll probably never repay?
Notably, he has had difficulty moving beyond the “undergraduate” phase, lingering there long after others would have progressed to a more sophisticated and independent level of study – 2 degrees, plus “work” on a third undergraduate degree – what, he couldn’t decide what to do when he grows up, or just didn’t want to go get a job? Other people do a double undergraduate degree in five years.
No-one NEEDS three full undergraduate degrees. He is only now adding some “work” on a Masters – an odd modifier, which tends to suggest that he isn’t “doing” his Masters. Gee, gosh, I’m so impressed with all of this. Total prat.
Does a diploma in needlework count as an undergraduate degree?
No James, no. We elitists do not acknowledge diplomas, which only have validity if continued studies result in the diploma being converted into a degree. On this basis, suggest you whip out the needles & threads go after that needlework degree - go on, you can do it!
Very intelligent man, this Thom Lyons.
I like his Veteran's Affairs Policy. Nothing like a series of meaningless gestures and empty platitudes as a substitute for serious thinking.
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