In other words, Keynes' addendum.
Chris Richardson of Access Economics, and a chorus of others, demand that the current period of state activism must be temporary. Of course, when the addendum is of no use we return to the vile maxim in its classical form.
The Australian Financial Review has instructed the government in a recent editorial (January 30, 2009) not to not engage in what it disgracefully referred to as "welfare padding".
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Welfare padding is for the rich given the vile maxim and must at all times be consistent with the addendum thereto if directed towards the poor.
As comrades Tanner and Ferguson have revealed the masters of mankind have no need to fear that these orders will not be obeyed.
Whatever the new Rudd framework may be, it will be totally irrelevant, for the vile maxim will hold as usual as the comrades in the Rudd cabinet have told, nay warned, us it will.
The Rudd essay is a political tract designed to fashion a narrative where hitherto none has existed and to opportunistically establish mastery over his political opponents in much the same fashion that Howard was able to achieve following September 11, 2001.
September 2008 was Rudd's September 2001.
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Mark Beljac teaches at Swinburne University of Technology, is a board member of the New International Bookshop, and is involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, National Tertiary Education Union, National Union of Workers (community) and Friends of the Earth.
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