Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-13 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Max, One thing I'm hearing more about from my dear friends at the Heritage Foundation is the great experiment in privatization of social insurance in Australia enacted by your blessed social democrats. Wonder if you'd care to elaborate on this. I do not bless our socdems. I just don't

Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-13 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Penners, With reference to Oz, Max writes: I was talking about the privatization of the financing of benefits in terms of the use of individual accounts, government purchase of corporate stock, or whatever. I know nothing about this, Max! Are you talking about something that's allegedly

Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-13 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Rob Schaap wrote: With reference to Oz, Max writes: I was talking about the privatization of the financing of benefits in terms of the use of individual accounts, government purchase of corporate stock, or whatever. I know nothing about this, Max! Are you talking about something that's

Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-13 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Penners, No intention to bombard your mailboxes with press articles, but a couple of quickies - (a) to update the wharfies' dispute (not good), and (b) to contextualise by way of electoral climate (could be worse - and note the government's attempts to save the private health insurance

Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-12 Thread maxsaw
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 23:31:10 +1100 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Australian Update #1 G'day Max, One thing I'm hearing more about from my dear friends at the Heritage

Australian Update #1

1998-04-11 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Penners, Believe it or not, Oz is actually an interesting place to be just now. Some things remain the same (whilst most people you meet are far from openly racist, the political culture of the place still oppresses Aboriginees much more than occurs in Canada or the US) and some things are

Re: Australian Update #1

1998-04-11 Thread maxsaw
G'day Penners, Believe it or not, Oz is actually an interesting place to be just now. No doubt. One thing I'm hearing more about from my dear friends at the Heritage Foundation is the great experiment in privatization of social insurance in Australia enacted by your blessed social