https://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateCleverer&id=128

It’s a hoot.

My least favourite ads are always the ones where the actors ham up lame-o ocker accents to underscore their working class authenticity.

WORD Amanda. I just hate the way this government fingers people like me, who have “white collar” techie jobs paying less than a tradie, drive an old car and worry about paying the rates bill, as “elites” cos we have certain opinions on things, and they display this kind of political kabuki which shows they really have no idea of working class people themselves.

The citizenship test advert gets my goat. And then consorts with it in an unnatural way.

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While we’re on the topic of JH, political advertising and animals, can I go a bit O/T and quote this fantastic quote which is on Ms Fits blog - from a C of E reverend in the UK:

‘A British reverend has likened Prime Minister John Howard to the man who ordered the execution of Jesus. The Reverend Canon Peter Macleod-Miller has vented fury of biblical proportions at Mr. Howard, claiming his leprous soul should be exorcised out of office to allow compassion back into Australia.’

And, he has a nice ass.

I haven’t seen the add but the voice-over is funny (video card playing up).

Small problem, I’m in the neighbouring electorate of Pearce - Safe Liberal.

So there are at least 24 years between you. That’s unusual. Do you have the same two parents or did one of your parents start a new family?

I think the main problem is we are so obsessed with money and material success that we have lost sight of society.

I would rather live in a peaceful and friendly world than in a palace that needs guards and in fear of my life.

A friend recently returned from the Caribbean a delightful place but your could not walk on the beach at night for fear of being robbed raped or murdered.

People in million dollar homes hired security guards and then lived in fear the guards would rob and kill them.

I would rather supply cheap drugs to addicts than have them break into my home to get them. I don’t care how much tax I pay when I need a hospital I want to have a good one nearby.

I want my grandchildren to be educated and to learn to live and learn without bullies.

I am one of those strange people who believes it matters not if you win or lose but how you play the game. Howard seems to embody the philosophy

“Winner take all , Second place is for losers”

Getting Australian taxpayers (i.e. workers) to fund this insulting propaganda is to not only have workers over a barrel, but to expect them to pay for the lubricant.

I have opened and chucked the drugs and internet mail outs into the bin. The drugs one I got as far as the second sentence where they started a sentence with the word “And” If they cannot cope with basic english language in a letter from the PM then I give up. I have long been a supporter of harm minimization rather than prohibition. Prohibition has not worked anywhere in the world so far and “Tough on Drugs” the death penalty does not deter people how much tougher can you get?

The internet one I handed to a mates kids and they said they could bypass the filter in a matter of seconds and they were primary school.

Workchoices? the add where guy in pub says “I thought it was a fair deal then the government said the boss had to give me more money” if he is not smart enough to realize he is being screwed by his boss then WTF????

I was sacked for refusing to use dangerous electrical gear recently under Workchoices this is OK with Joe Hockey it is not unfair or illegal for me to be sacked for refusing to risk my life.

As for asking workchoices or the ombudsman for help when you ring the “help” line you are told “We cannot give legal advice we suggest you hire a lawyer” some help if you have a mortgage kids to feed and are out of a job.

Needless to say I am not impressed with the $200,000,000 advertising campaign.

Orwellian stuff. But not as Orwellian as the most cynical of all, the ‘national security information campaign’, where the government hangs on the coat tails of overseas atrocities to boost its ’security’ credentials. Ms Laurie is quite right, the campaign and ads are racist. (’if you see something suspicious, call the police, if the guy’s brown, call us’). I’ve written more about the terror ads here.

Since the idiocy of the two blokes is so obvious, just which demographic do they think will be influenced by this? I mean since only idiots will be voting for them next time, that demographic is already accounted for.

I think we’re on the same page, Amused. The Coalition’s drift towards feudalism has given even the feeble-minded a clue that something is amiss. These ads are to reassure them lest they jump ship. Just don’t underestimate how many of them there are.

The things the ads forget to tell us are

Indeed Mr Healy, but that kind of analysis and thinking is entirely unsuitable for prime time TV, indeed for any kind of public discussion whatsoever. It is unseemly, not to say impolite, to address vulgar issues like the distribution of relative shares of output and productivity when the punters are trying to get a little distraction, entertainment and basic information from their democratically elected father government. Those kinds of matters may be safely dealt with by people who can be trusted to produce the proper perspectives, and whose conversations, to the extent they are public, are confined to places where, it can be safely presumed, the decent, mainstream Australian punter, does not to wander.

There was a Kenny Loggins song called “We’ve Got the Power� in there somewhere too.

As opposed to what really plays out over the credits:

“I’m alright [Jack],
Don’t nobody worry ’bout me…”

Sorry Lynn, but ’stupid’ is an adjective, and therefore you can have varying degrees, as in ‘weak’, ‘weaker’, and ‘weakest’.

Perfectly Cromulant word there Conan but two syllable adjectives without the ‘y’ typically use ‘more’ as in ‘Darwin is more humid than Perth’

so the idea that employers are going to do anything to get rid of employees doesn’t make sense, does it - instead, they’ll be bending over backwards to suit their employees.

The story ended in my head that the two workers decided that it would be a perfect time to press the bosses for better pay and conditions and if they banded together and threatened to withdraw their labour, they could get whatever they wanted. There was a Kenny Loggins song called “We’ve Got the Power” in there somewhere too. And then this call centre person appeared and the magic went.

1. in a booming economy, employers are desperate to contain wages.

2. if it was true that awards and unions depressed wages, employers would welcome them, since their responsibility to shareholders is to reduce labour costs.

3. AWA wages are higher because early adopters of AWAs were high level managers and professionals. The government knows this.

Any voters who are not yet sure about the Howard government, draw your own conclusions.