Oceania Who is Australia's Greatest Prime Minister?

Yes, we should all be taxed equally.

Everyone is equal, although obviously some people are more equal than others.



(I'm just having a lend of you marv. It's good that you have lofty ideals. run with it, I say)

 

Run where?

 

All the way to the top!!

Just think of this as Question Time.

And when you graduate to parliament, and you're running the world you'll sit back and think, I wonder what happened to ol' kahls, gee all that taking out of context and juvenile debating sure prepared me for playtime with the big kids.

And you won't have to wonder for long, cos I'll be right there, asking for a job (high-pay, low-hours, mostly consulting)

 

Like a CEO who 'earns' a $10,000 a week wage rise?

Or a CEO who 'earns' a million share options (at say $5 a share) for raising company shares by $2?

Or an actor who 'earns' $40 million for a month's work?

I think you'd be hard pressed to convince most people that anyone's job is worth $10K a week - let alone worth a $10K a week wage rise.


And it's just occurred to me that I am in a field where I could conceivably make $10K a week (or more, and even do it legally...) if I choose that career path. And even knowing how much hard work and stress it involves (worst case scenario: emotional and mental breakdown in about 6 months from the stress), I still don't think I could justify that sort of wage. (And now I think about it, the people in the worst case scenario are usually not on anything near that kind of wage...).

So I think I can say, without it sounding like sour grapes or jealousy, that people earning higher wages don't necessarily 'deserve' a higher income more than people on lower wages.

IMHO, if you are willing to accept a disproportionate share of the boons of society, you should also be willing to accept a disproportionate share of the burdens of society.

But that's getting right off track...

 

I am in a field

What exactly do you do OzHaggis? If you don't mind me asking. Feel free to ignore this post if you do... and forever be considered the guy with the secret career. *raises eyebrow*

 

khali:

trust me dear, your one of the more mild of people who disagree with me -you oughta see those trotskyists at uni...during the election last year I got called all sorts of things, like sexist (which is strange cos i love girls ), homophobic, and even racist 9which is strange because i come form an ethnic family!!!) hehehe

But that's getting right off track...

Oh yeah

 

so, about that job...

 

I guess there'll be plenty of vacancies, because I would've just sent all the kids off the war

 

yay me!

 

Ozhaggis is a postgrad psychology student, mere months away from registration (MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough*) - which means one career path is clinical psychology (which isn't as common as you think, and not something I'm interested in) which these days is set at a minimum hourly rate (by the APA) of about $160/hour.

The "worst case scenario" job is working for Community Services - which includes working with abused women & children. Which is why most people quit within a year. And you get to do that for a wage that's closer to $15 an hour.

 

Who called you Homophobic Marvin? Was it those evil Lesbians?

 

How did the thread get from Australian Prime Ministers to unfriendly women on a small Greek island?

 

Oh, with Marvin, anything can get off-track. Like that time Marv and I derailed the Senate Floor...remember that Marv?

E_S

 

hehehe Oh yeah. We posted 5 or 6 times before the mods woke up

 

It was way more than that! Remember, we kept kicking each other's nuts.

//kicks Marv in the nuts

E_S

 

//kicks ES's nuts

damm i cant reach his head.

 

//kicks Marvs nuts...TWICE!

E_S

 

/marv rescinds the UN Charter/

Take THAT you peacenik!

 

//yoink - Returns Charter.

Hey's that the basis for my supporting war in Iraq! It's a legal document! Where's your support of the rule of law, Mr I'm Not Really a Conservative!

E_S

 

my Nukes!

*BANG!*

/blows up UN charter/

/and blows up Iraq while he's here/

 

Hmmm...methinks a certain thread needs to get back on topic.

 

We're running out of PMs, but we have too much ammunition!

*bombs Shara*

Doh! Sorry lass

Thats what they call 'colateral damage' eh Ender Sai

 

Serious, guys, back on topic, please.

 

/kicks Shara... No, wait... DOESN'T kick Shara...


Seriously, I have yet to see one person refute, successfully, that Paul Keating's hand on HRH's bot-bot wasn't a classic moment in the history of this wonderful land of ours.

E_S

 

I'm not going to dispute it ES

I even made it a trend myself

/puts hand on ES's backside/