Rudd – Greed is good (sorry, bad)

Slightly off topic, but it’s so refreshing when a Labor Prime Minister slips back into the old politics of envy, and reveals his true colours (bright red).

“What we have seen is the comprehensive failure of extreme capitalism – extreme capitalism which now turns to government to prevent systemic failure. The [same] institutions of government that extreme capitalism spent decades deriding,” he said.

Let’s remind ourselves – Rudd, like all in his government, are not just watered down Liberals, they are old-fashioned copper-bottomed socialists at heart and cannot resist the temptation to have a go at the market economy when they have a chance. Let’s hope Rudd is a one-term government.

Read it here.