Nothing will save us from gullibility and greedy self-interest (Au SMH)

[struggle4progress]

By Alan Ramsey
October 11, 2004

<snip> How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years? Worse, how could we have brought them to the very brink of absolute control of the nation's entire parliamentary process and authority? <snip>

For almost nine years this Government, incompetent in most everything except mediocrity, debauched its word and the people's trust, along with voters' gullibility, their ignorance, their taxes and, in the end, their greedy self-interest.

It deceived and dissembled about joining us with Washington's military adventurism in Iraq, and it went on deceiving and dissembling, irrespective of the heightened threat to our national interest, to keep our minuscule presence there purely for the political pleasure of George Bush and his cronies.

Then when we reached the one time every three years of a people's audit, 4.6 in every 10 of us turned round and said, thank you, gimme the money and flog us for another three years ... <snip>

... This time we've really buggered things ... <snip>

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/10/1097406429536.html

[shraby]

1. What kind of voting apparatus do they use?

[punpirate]

2. Paper ballot. n/t