The mainstream media have long been completely in the pocket fo the so called ‘environmental’ movement. They act as unpaid propagandists for any loony watermelon initiative out there. The latest demonstration of this fatuous worship of a party of fakes and charlatans was given yesterday when Bob Brown was permitted to make the following utterly absurd claim without any challenge from the so called journalists covering his press conference. Brown told Channel 10-
”Our job is to ensure that the average Australian householder and car user is not punished by a carbon price. The idea here is to make the polluters pay – the big corporate polluters.”
Its a simple rule of economics that the retail price of a product is made up of production costs plus profit margin. Businesses that do not include production costs will naturally go broke. That Brown would make the above statement shows he is either an ignorant commercially illiterate fool or a fake and a charlatan. I reckon he is both actually. A cynical power obsessed creep bringing an already discredited political force (the Watermelons) into even greater disrepute.
Update- I see Andrew Bolt has also picked up on this remarkably ignorant comment.
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5 responses to “Watermelon’s Bob Brown- Commercially Ignorant Fool”
“Fool” is to kind a word, really. “Imbecile” would be more appropriate in my view.
It might be a good idea to have all politicians pass a simple exam in economics 101 before they are even allowed to enter a ballot. This would certainly reduce their numbers and the amount of baloney we have to cope with.
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Debate any socialist on economics and you’ll quickly see they have no idea how a business or the economy at large works…
The other day I had one of them telling me the rich try to limit inflation to protect their wealth – like it’s all sitting in term deposits and not companies and real estate that appreciate right along with inflation… I said the opposite is true, that if the rich really did have an evil plan, they’d ramp up inflation to 20% p.a. for a few years then buy up everything… Inflation is an insideous tax on the poor – that’s why Conservatives try to control it…
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Looks like WUWT has won best science blog in 2011 bloggies. Three cheers!!!
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““Fool” is to kind a word, really. “Imbecile” would be more appropriate in my view.”
Yes, I would have used it if I had thought of it at the time.
“The other day I had one of them telling me the rich try to limit inflation to protect their wealth ”
All they ever have, an unending store of straw men.
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I don’t think he’s a fool at all. He knows producers will *always* pass on production costs to consumers. The only time this wouldn’t happen is when the producer isn’t interested in turning a profit from their enterprise (e.g. when the government is running the enterprise).
He’s Gillarding the gullible, hoping to quiet the noise down until it’s too late for the punters to do anything about it.
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