The Entrenched Culture of Corruption

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Education also leaves you with a huge HECS debt, and you go back to your shitty job cleaning toilets, stacking shelves, or packing boxes in a warehouse because the government is so busy misappropriating public taxes as ‘entitlements’ – and using the fraud of ‘debt recovery’ to steal from the poor who cannot afford legal help when Due Process and Onus of Proof are ignored – to do their bloody jobs and create an environment where employment opportunities can grow. You are now educated enough to know you’re being screwed over but cannot do a damn thing about it. You no longer benefit from blissful ignorance. If you did, you wouldn’t pay attention to the news and make connections that reveal links and predict the outcomes of others events. You wouldn’t notice the LNP terrorising hundreds of thousands of people in the hunt for $4B it mismanaged and overpaid in Welfare while politicians claim almost $500M a year in ‘entitlements’. You wouldn’t be able to do the math and realise that if th...

Andrés Miguel Rondón recently  published an article on the similarities between the destructive dictatorship of self-proclaimed Marxist  Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Plutocratic Fascist  Donald Trump.  Rondón is an economist living in Madrid but was born and raised in Venezuela, so his first-hand experience under the insanity of Chavez and his sycophants cannot be ignored. His advice to the people of the US, however, is deeply flawed. His knowledge of human psychology is, clearly, limited. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/in-venezuela-we-couldnt-stop-chavez-dont-make-the-same-mistakes-we-did/?utm_term=.0be9a931a9c0&wpisrc=nl_most-draw14&wpmm=1 His assessment of populism and its reliance on polarization is faultless, albeit a narrow view of all methods used in a campaign to manipulate and control a population, but his suggestions on a practical response are seriously defective. Rondón warns against providing what is ne...