Jan. 30, 2012 at 7:10pm with 737 notes
Reblogged from rstevens
Quick link: Putting capital on right track
Here’s the Canberra Times article about a metro system for Canberra (including the imagined Metro map) with a few references to Washington D.C. as a comparison
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A capital idea - what a Canberra Metro might look like (from Forum in last Saturday’s Canberra Times)
Thoughts?
TweetI kinda wish I was going to see M83 at the Metro
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On average the amount redistributed to the poor actually decreases as welfare states become more targeted. Any increase in redistribution from an increase in targeting is clearly outweighed by the smaller expenditure that is associated with the lower willingness to pay of targeted welfare states. This confirms the hypothesis that strategies of targeting result in welfare states that do less redistribution to the poorest than strategies of universalism.
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This brought him back to the problems facing the Liberal Party, which was in a terrible state, terrible. Its success at a federal level was no more than a temporary mask for massive difficulty in raising funds and retaining membership. Indeed, if someone was not done soon, Turnbull predicted, the Liberal Party would very soon be supplanted by some new centre-right Party. It wouldn’t be hard at all, thanks to the Internet - he took a moment or two to praise the marvel that is the Internet - a couple of wealthy financiers, a few emails, an online recruitment campaign and voila, a new conservative force in Australian politics and no more Liberal Party
The people’s flag is Union Jacked
It’s draped across a sunburned back
And just to make the message clear
It’s soaked in cheap discounted beer
So raise the nylon standard high
Praise its UV protective ply
Though oldies flinch and lefties sneer
Our flag is there for us to wear
- (lyrics courtesy of @liamvhogan)
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Social movements, by going where mainstream political leaders initially fear to tread, can prepare the ground for stronger progressive commitments…Labour needs bold and vibrant social movements not only to help prepare its path to power but also to govern effectively.
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What the conservatives call envy, the leftists call a yearning for equality. What those who scoff at envy really seek to do is shut up those who are calling out privilege and injustice. I understand that conservatives do not think there is any injustice involved in these class issues. Indeed, this has always been the position of the conservative, denying injustices and blocking progress in favor of a status quo that affords them so many unequal and unfair benefits.
