http://www.ambitgambit.com/2006/11/23/focus-group-on-victorian-election/ Ambit Gambit Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ambitgambit.com/2006/11/23/focus-group-on-victorian-election/comment-page-1/#comment-1429 paul walter Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:09:05 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=1748#comment-1429 "...voters are too smart to beleive that the staffing problems in health are easily fixable". They are easily fixable, all right! If only the political parties would grow out of this accursed "small government" and "balancing the budget" ideological nonsense imported from America. It's a fetish that denies all the potential of government as a medium for progress in an educated 21st century society and crawls back to the medieval misanthropy of the Hobbesian Middle Ages. Let's just call it the "Family First" election, because that's about the amount of intellectual effort and rigour that voters apply to policy in federal and states elections, these days, anyway. “…voters are too smart to beleive that the staffing problems in health are easily fixable”.
They are easily fixable, all right!
If only the political parties would grow out of this accursed “small government” and “balancing the budget” ideological nonsense imported from America. It’s a fetish that denies all the potential of government as a medium for progress in an educated 21st century society and crawls back to the medieval misanthropy of the Hobbesian Middle Ages.
Let’s just call it the “Family First” election, because that’s about the amount of intellectual effort and rigour that voters apply to policy in federal and states elections, these days, anyway.

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