RE: Tips on union busting
February 9, 2012 at 2:28 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2012 at 2:43 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:How do you like the businesses pledging 100 million just in ads for Mitt Romney...
It bemuses and disgusts me ,as does the news that Obama will have a cool one $billion for his election campaign
My position has long been that only individuals,not companies should be permitted to donate to a political party, and that there should be a personal and cumulative cap.
Ideally, the amounts spent on election campaigns should be capped. There have been moves here in Australia for decades to control political donations and even to restrict the costs of election campaigns,which would be paid from the public purse. (probably a tad optimistic all round.)
While I'm being unrealistic,I'd also like to see commercial lobbying made illegal. (yeah,pigs will fly first)
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Here the Australian Labor party began as the political arm of the trade union movement and was radically left wing. At that time,and until 1975,politics in Australia was effectively a class war. Me? My family background is working-class-bog-Irsih-Catholic (think of the Boston Irish but less refined)
1975 was the time of Australia's constitutional crisis,and marked the very beginning of the end of trade union power in this country. Today, Australia,like the US and the UK, has no effective politcal left.
Quote:The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis (sometimes called "the Dismissal") has been described as the greatest political crisis and constitutional crisis in Australia's history. It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the removal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr. Kerr then appointed the Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_...is_of_1975
