Archive for 'Stimulus package'
Ground control to Major Tom?
Posted by John, September 7th, 2009 - under Space, Stimulus package.
Tags: Bowie, Craig Emerson, David Bowie, Ground control to Major Tom
Comments: none
Malcolm Turnbull as Major Tom? He has ventured into deep space with Godwin Grech, but I doubt that is what Minister Emerson meant. What did he mean?
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A W-shaped recession?
Posted by Leonie, July 21st, 2009 - under Recession, Stimulus package, United States.
Tags: Australian economy, Capitalism, China, Creative destruction, Economic crisis, Economics, Global economy, Great Recession
Comments: 3
This might be a W-shaped recession, with the W moving towards a w.
The Commonwealth Bank shows we are not all in this together
Posted by Bill, June 14th, 2009 - under Interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Stimulus package, Strikes.
Tags: ACTU, ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Banking unions, Banks, Capitalism, Fighting back, Finance Sector Union
Comments: 6
The actions of the Commonwealth Bank in raising interest rates and cutting employees’ wages show we are not all in this together.
Social democracy rules, OK?
Posted by Bill, April 14th, 2009 - under Jobs, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Maternity leave, Nationalisation, Neoliberalism, Obama, Occupations, Paid maternity leave, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Social Democracy, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Australian, The Great Recession, The Left, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, United States, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Work hours.
Tags: 30 hour week, ABCC, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Building industry, Capitalism, CFMEU, Class struggle, Creative destruction, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: 13
Social democratic controlled burning won’t prevent the firestorm of the Great Recession from destroying hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. Rudd Labor will fan the flames.
France is our future
Posted by John, March 21st, 2009 - under Jobs, New Anti-captialist Party, NPA, Occupations, Olivier Besancenot, Public Service, Resistance, Revolution, sackings, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes.
Tags: Capitalism, Class struggle, Democracy, Demonstrations, Elections, Fighting back, France, General strike, Guadeloupe
Comments: none
The recent general strikes in France were a success. Pressure is building from below for more action.
The stimulous package
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Labor Party, Spelling, Stimulus package, Wankers.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics
Comments: none
‘Use your stimulous to go to the US,’ said a billboard outside a travel agency. Don’t they know only wankers like me can get away with making up words like stimuloss, but then again perhaps their misspelling was intentional too. After all Rudd’s stimulus package is lousy.
Too poor for the stimulus package
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Living standards, Rudd, Rudd Bank, Stimulus package.
Tags: ALP, Big business, Capitalism, Defence, Economics
Comments: 4
My friend Brian is too poor to receive the $900 stimulus payment. Last financial year Brian was working but earnt less than $11,000. This means that, even though he lodged a tax return, because he was below the effective tax free threshold and thus paid no tax on his income, he doesn’t get the $900. And the […]