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While normal youth were fantasizing about sex, young Johnny found nothing more
arousing than neo liberalism and neoclassical economics. His political ideology to this day is
derived from these bizarre fetishes.
Howard became a federal parliamentary member in 1974 after failed attempts dating back to 1968.
By 1977 he had slithered his way into the chair of the nations treasury. He almost resigned
as treasurer in 1982 after being sexually frustrated for years, the Prime Minister at the time
was unwilling to take part in his sick neo fantasies. Johnny was a tortured soul as Margaret
Thatcher promiscuously waved around a regime of privatization and deregulation right before his eyes. He masturbated furiously
as she mutilated trade unions and introduced market mechanisms into health and education, but
alas Malcolm Fraser continuously hosed him down with a very cold shower way before he was ever near climax.
John became leader of the liberal party in 1985 after sticking a few knives in the back of
his predecessor, Andrew Peacock. Howard became unpopular, even by his own standards, in 1988
when he proclaimed that Australia was letting in too many Asian immigrants. From 1989 to 1995,
the liberal party tried in vein to find a leader less creepy than John Howard. Mr Peacock had
another crack, then Dr John Hewson and finally in desperation even Alexander Downer was thrown up,
but resigned in 1995 when he realized that he would no longer be permitted to wear fish net
stockings out in public.
Under the leadership of Hewson, the liberal party lost an un losable election in 1993. Something
called a GST (goods and services tax) which was the centre piece of the liberal party policy platform,
scared the living crap out of the Australian voting public. Until this point, Howard had been
a forceful advocate of GST but now it became same what of a bastard love child to him. He was
totally absorbed in the miracle of its creation but couldn't share that with anyone for fear
of being stoned (as in struck by flying rocks).
Howard said in 1995, "There's no way that a GST will ever be part of our policy. Never ever.
It's dead. It was killed by the voters in the last election. Any suggestion that I left the
door open is absolute nonsense. I didn't. I never will. The last election killed the GST.
It's not part of our policy and it won't be part of our policy at any time in the future."
Howard Government
In 1996, an over representation from the sadomasochistic community at the voting booths,
saw the evil empire of Howard installed to governance. In the same year when his own party disendorsed candidate
hopeful Pauline Hanson for being a racist, xenophobic cow, John said he thought it was good
that the years of political correctness were finally over.
In 1997 Howard introduces work for the dole, a program that enforces unemployed people to
participate as slave labour. The program is helpful in obscuring unemployment figures in the
governments favour and is found to actually be detrimental to participant’s prospects for real
employment. Extensive funding is provided to employment service providers and work for dole
hosts, to administer the program. Officially much of the funding is designated for training
and equipping participants for the work they are forced to do. In reality, providers and hosts
siphon these millions for there own personal gain, making unemployed people an industry to
profiteer from obscenely like any other business.
In addition to the theft of funding dollars, service providers are paid exorbitant commisions to begin with by government, for herding the unemployed and stereotyping them as bludgers. Luckily there is plenty of money for inflicting this policy as $1800 million dollars was cut from labour market programs over a 4 year period from 1996.
1998 - Howard government supports the Patrick company in a mass sacking of all
its unionized waterfront workers. The following day after going bankrupt, Patrick re emerges
under a different name with all new staff working for lower wages and inferior conditions,
all made possible by the governments recently implemented Workplace Relations Act of 1996.
In addition to robbing the tertiary education sector of millions in funding and cutting $527 million from Austudy in his first term of government, Howard promised there
was no intention of introducing a loans scheme with a real or indeed any other rate of
interest for students, and that "I can guarantee we're not going to have $100,000.00 university
degree courses." Hmmm...
2000 - Howard implements GST. Hmmm... refer 1995 comments. Apparently his words GST - never ever,
had completely slipped his mind by this stage. Conspicuously, the fact that Australian's didn't
want GST hadn't slipped his mind and thus he spent $20 million dollars on TV advertising telling us
why we really did want it. This was after he implemented it mind you, sadistic little prick.
Again after promises to the contrary, Howard stole significant funding dollars from Medicare
(public health system) only to redistribute it into the private health insurance industry, in
the form of a 30% rebate on premiums, payable to all who signed up for private health cover.
He promised private insurance premiums wouldn't rise when the policy was met with scepticism.
The public remained unmoved, the private
health business didn't get their sign ups, their premiums have inflated to around 30% more than
they were at time of policy launch, and of course the public health system has been about 30% reduced in
capacity as a result.
In 2001 he campaigned for an election on a platform of providing serious border protection
which he assured us we were in desperate need of. He told us as fact, a rumour which it was
later found that he knew to be false, that terrorists were masquerading as refugees and
throwing children overboard into the sea when approached by our Navy, so that they might
jump the queue and gain entrance into Australia. Details at http://truthoverboard.com/
Months earlier, a cargo ship, the MV Tampa
had rescued 438 refugees from a sinking boat 4 hours away from the Australian migration zone
of Christmas Island. The Australian government refused to rescue, asking Indonesia to do so.
They refused and the Australian Rescue Coordination Centre sent an SOS call for any passing
ships to attend for rescue. The Tampa did, but then was refused entry to both Australian and
Indonesian territory. Australian SAS troops engaged the Tampa and forcibly turned it away
when its captain tried to ignore authorities and dock at Christmas Island anyway due to the
declining health of the rescued survivors. Thankfully New Zealand opened its doors because
John Howard was quite happy to let 400 odd people die in pools of their own vomit and
diarrhoea, locked inside shipping containers.
Following the Tampa incident, Howard’s government began legislating away all responsibility
for asylum seekers to the extent that thousands of islands had been excluded from Australia’s
migration zone by 2003. Mandatory detention became law for any refugee sailing towards
Australia. The government bribed various Pacific island nations to do the detaining. In the
financial year 2003/2004, detaining little more than 1000 people on a couple of islands, cost
Australian taxpayers $15.5 million.
picture courtesy of
http://mauriegee0.tripod.com/art.htm
From the new year of 2002, we all pretty much knew G.W without a doubt had set a date for invading
Iraq. Howard and his government, consistently refused to answer the question of whether Australian
troops would aid and abet in this criminal action, even pretty much to the day they left in mid 2003.
Of course during this period, the government put out for our consumption, great wads of propaganda
in support of war, even though they didn't really know if it would really happen and if it really did,
didn't really know if our troops really would be committed. Manufactured documents presented as
actual intelligence on WMD's in Iraq, captured media coverage daily, all courtesy of the government.
Since 1996 the government has incrementally eroded away Australian workers pay rates and employment
conditions. In 2006, the most indignant offensives yet dispatched on workers rights by the Howard government,
were enacted into parliament. The new IR (industrial relations) laws allow
employers to: sack workers unfairly or for no reason, force workers in signing individual
contracts that reduce their pay and working conditions. This has upper management in the
business sector rubbing its hands with glee as even arbitration services for mistreated workers
are being dismantled by the government.
2006 also saw the introduction of anti-student organization legislation, euphemistically
referred to as voluntary student unionism. VSU deprives students of many important services
once funded by union fees. Its real agenda, to remove the ability of student organizations to
rally and resist government attacks on education, is an achievement Howard will never stop
smirking about.
As is the case with Australia's health care system, Howard pillaged millions from
the public school system and then just like Robin Hood (only slightly confused), he gave the spoils
to the wealthy, resource rich private school sector. Another ingenious education concept
employed by Howard was to allocate $90 million dollars over a 3 year period
to fund the appointment of chaplains in government as well as private schools.
The National School Chaplaincy Program pays $20,000 per year, to any school—secular
or religious, to support the employment of a chaplain.
In 2006 it was revealed that Howard apparently hadn't noticed AWB (Australian
Wheat Board) bribing Saddam Hussein with millions of dollars despite his own DFAT officials
being present when bribe agreements were brokered. Most amicable of our government to give
Saddam a fighting chance by helping with cash flow to arm himself against us invading. If this didn't
stink enough, Howard was then more than helpful in setting the terms of reference for the
investigating commission, which strangely enough, had no provisions for scrutinizing the
government’s involvement. True to their putridness, it is reported that members of government
celebrated with a party as it was decided by the commission, that wasn't permitted to
investigate them, that they had done nothing wrong.
A new "welfare to work" system implemented the 1st July 2006, saw 5000 Australians lose their
benefits, for a period of 8 weeks each, in the 6 month period
that followed, for breaches of their newly imposed obligations. This represented a 250% increase
in the number of jobless stripped of all income for a two-month period over the previous years
figures. Denying recipients any assistance for eight weeks is designed to give them no choice
but to accept cheap-labour work under any conditions. The new obligations also apply to
single parents and the disabled for the first time.
In a revealing comment, Employment Minister Kevin Andrews said the higher level of two-month
cut-offs showed that the new system was working efficiently. He predicted that within the
next six months, the program would meet its target of fully “breaching” 14,000 people.
That is, the scheme was specifically designed to reduce thousands of jobless people to a
state of abject poverty.
About 4,000 of the estimated 18,000 people to suffer the eight-week penalties each year are
being placed on “case management” programs. The government pays their essential bills,
supposedly to prevent them and their children from starving, being evicted from their homes,
or having their powers, phone or water services cut off.
The government had been planning to contract these programs out to charities, which would
organize the payment of food and household bills, and provide financial counseling. However
church-based charitable organizations approached, have described the measures as
so draconian that they refuse to participate and have denounced the government for demanding
that they carry out its “dirty work”.
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