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Issue No. 247 | 19 November 2004 |
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In Defence of Jeff
Interview: The Reich Stuff Economics: Crime and Punishment Environment: Beyond The Wedge International: The End Of The Lucky Country Safety: Tests Fail Tests Politics: Labo(u)r Day Human Rights: Arabian Lights History: Labour's Titan Review: Foxy Fiasco Poetry: Then I Saw The Light
The Locker Room The Soapbox Parliament
 Backbone Derail Causes ParalysisShawly we�ve heard enoughDecline of The American Empire
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Tool Shed Moore Is Less
***** Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour. Democracy has never sat comfortably with them. One of the best exponents of the right to pay workers in salt is the New Right's very own nutty professor Des Moore. Moore likes to pontificate on how all this nonsense about the power of bosses is overrated, and that workers and employers actually negotiate on equal terms. Yes, I think it's obvious that when Solomon Lew and a sixteen-year-old trolley collector sit down to negotiate they are both on equal standing. No one with a $400 000 mortgage is bothered at all by the threat of the sack. They all come to the bargaining table as equals. And pigs fly over head. Maybe because Moore spends his days kissing the posteriors of people he obviously feels are his superiors he is missing what is going on in the real world. Certainly Moore thinks he is in the real world, but that's probably just the average sort of delusion we can expect from this bomb thrower for the New Right. Our Tool Of the Week believes that managers should be allowed to manage - even when Blind Freddy can see that there are managers in Australia that can barely manage to get their pants on the right way around, let alone provide an intelligent solution to the day to day problems we all face at work. Problems that are created by geniuses like Moore who wouldn't know what a days work was if it fell on them. Moore, with a straight face, is worried by the "takeover by those who perceived social interventionism as a source of power and employment for themselves". Well he might want to look into the mirror if he wants to get to the bottom of that problem. He seems to find it difficult to grasp the idea that caring about your fellow human beings, especially the ones you work with, is an intrinsic Australian value. But why should we be surprised, after all Des Moore is a big picture man. Apart from the fact that Moore has no mates - even Michael Egan reckons he's no mate of Dessie baby, which is saying something. Des Moore is a mindless hypocrite who supports bosses rights to kill teenagers. As one ex-PM put it: "When Des Moore retired his chief complaints were the size of the deficit and the politicisation of the public service. I can only be thankful that his views and actions during the term of my government were in no way political and now, in joining the Victorian Institute of Public Affairs, he has maintained a tradition of political neutrality." In the four months he spent in Washington prior to his resignation from Treasury he spent $30 000 of taxpayers dosh to kiss butt with whacko US Wank Tank the Heritage Foundation He returned with no-brainers such as: "If we had the same proportion of ourworking age population employed as the United States, we'd have another 900,000 employed." Would Des like to have the same percentage of working age Australians in gaol as they have in the United states? Probably, especially if they were union members. For Des would like to have his fellow Australians on $2 an hour and living off tips. Why doesn't he just advocate bringing back slavery and be done with it. Des, who is also an expert on Middle Eastern politics - apparently bombing Arabs to the shitter is the best way to get them to adopt "sensible" economic policies - doubles as something of a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan. To that end the Tool Shed Choir is providing Des with a Libretto for the week, to the tune of 'I am the very model of modern major-general'.
I am the very model of a right wing intellectual
I am the very model of a right wing intellectual
I am the very model of a right wing intellectual
I am the very model of a right wing intellectual
Nominate a Tool!
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