Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "Young Australians have been 'brainwashed' into 'believing in the benefits of socialism': Dean" video.

Yes our great grandchildren will inherit the government debt
7
Exactly, Lenin was a global socialist, Mussolini and Hitler were national socialists.
5
@imyourdaddy5822 Grandmothers are so clever.
4
We live in societies where every abomination to God is legal and glorified.
3
What rot. He's the only mainstream Australian journalist who has consistently called out against mandates and covid excesses. And against human rights abuses over covid. Every week he uses his platform to call for a royal commission. In my opinion he's the only decent mainstream Australian journalist.
3
I chat to a lot of people online in America. Since Obama they have Medicaid. The very poor get free treatment. It still needs tweaking because despite taking peoples taxes, they don't seem to cover the working poor. My grandparents did fine in Australia before there was any socialised medical care. You join a friendly society. You pay a shilling. And when times are tough you donate some eggs or a dressed chook towards the chook raffle. Or maybe when times were really, really tough you might only have a few beans and carrots from your backyard vegetable garden. But under the Australian non socialist system, my grandmother got to give birth in private maternity hospitals with a minimum two week care to ensure mother and baby were in perfect health. Meanwhile in the UK in the same period, my mother in law under the completely free socialised NHIS had to hope and pray a midwife on bicycle arrived in time for the delivery.
3
Socialism only works on a small scale. If four families want to live on a commune and practice socialism good for them. It shouldn't be compulsory.
2
@Opinionsrnotfacts574 lol, excellent reply.
2
@dianakidd4219 So true.
2
Public schools are indoctrination centres paid for by the taxes of people regardless of whether they even have kids. Bus companies make money, and if not enough people use them they don't operate. Libraries are paid for by ratepayers, including landlords. Libraries, transport and schools all operated affordably before socialism. Dame schools educated kids for a penny a week. People paid a small sum to borrow books, in the same way you did with DVDs and videos a decade or more ago. And like today people paid for transport.
1
@eaudedogue Exactly. The dictionary definition of Fascism. The lovechild of socialist governments and corporations. The Chinese are experts.
1
@Fire.4Effect Sadly true. But when was it different? How much attention did kids get when fathers worked fourteen hours a day and mothers had ten kids and no labour saving devices? On the heels of electricity, washing machines and vacuum cleaners came radio, comic books, TV, videos, computer games and now the internet. To my mind the last five had a similar usage of keeping the kids away from annoying parents.
1
@jamestinning8900 please see above.
1
@jamestinning8900 Exactly. Or at least admit you might have a similar weakness at times. I get sick of the hypocrisy recently. Parents have this fashion at the moment to virtue signal how little access their kids have to the internet. These parents lie on the couch while the robotic vacuum cleaner cleans their floor, and the dishwasher does the dishes, and tell everyone on Facebook how wonderful they are as parents because they don't let the kids online. My rule is tell me everything about school on the walk home. After that if you want to go online use the big screen TV so I can see if it's age appropriate at a glance. But there are also strawberry beds to raid and swings to play on. I see more parents addicted to the internet than kids. To kids today it's the same as TV in the 70s.
1
@jamestinning8900 You sound like a great Dad.
1
@jamestinning8900 And so are they. Wish them a merry Christmas from granny Annie and fess up what you've been doing. The gkids like YouTube. And most of their content is actually educational by their choice. They like it that I also like YouTube. It's their parents "look at me " on Facebook they don't understand.
1
@jamestinning8900 Me too. I'm not afraid of honest discussion. If you don't mind me being personal, why are the little ones on Skype, and not with you ?
1
Better than sixty hours a week in a Gulag for you cockroach protein shake.
1
@gingertom56 The concept of free libraries began by rich men with lots of books donating them. And yes in Queensland ratepayers pay for libraries. And like a cultural revolution libraries threw out the entire library content in my suburb and replaced it with Mills and Boon level content because a lot of migrants had moved to the area and like all good little socialists they suffered from the belief in low expectations. And yes you could request a book from the state library, but it cost a lot of money. Even state education is a joke. England had better literacy results in the 1600s with zero free education than Australia manages today with tons of taxpayers money. And as for religious education. What's wrong with a little boy who likes dolls being told that baby Jesus was born on Christmas Day. Instead of being fast tracked through a process of becoming incontinent, infertile and impotent. All before he's old enough to drink a beer or get a tattoo. He can grow up and question religion. But you never get your bodily functions back.
1
@hc3657 I could.
1
@justinalexich4111 Nonsense
1
@Fire.4Effect Old Bloke and I have already discussed that. He's all for it.
1
@oldbloke204 I would draw the line at schools. In the 1600s in England there were no free schools. Parents paid tiny amounts to Dame schools where poor but educated widows and spinsters taught children at very little cost. There was no government curriculum, parents chose which woman's school to send their kids to. Very clever boys won scholarships to grammar schools, and even Oxford. The 1600s had a much higher rate of literacy than was achieved during the free, and compulsory education of the Victorian era. We know by the number of newspaper subscriptions, along with letters and diaries. So not only could more people read, more people could afford to subscribe to something new and interesting to read on a regular basis than they could centuries later with free education. Or in a modern context. My niece's year twelve English exam in a government school was to watch the sitcom Houseos and give an oral presentation on the show. No reading or writing needed. Meanwhile in the private school near me. In the first term of year three the kids read, the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. And each wrote an essay on the themes of the novel.
1
@Fire.4Effect I'm afraid he truly believes that the world is about to fry if we don't depopulate and adopt every UN directive. Sadly I know a lot of boomers and elderly like that. My mother in law believes everything the ABC says.
1
@Fire.4Effect I don't know. The last time I watched they hosted a panel of feminists who using foul language said Australia should burn and men should die. And within a week we had bushfires everywhere. Even in parklands in suburbia. And yes, men died fighting the ABCs fires.
1
@oldbloke204 Yes good old Henry Ford. He supported Hitler. He even helped Hitler by helping to supply him with IBM computers to wade through all that census information to find the Jews.
1
Which is why these countries have a migrant crisis. You can have socialism or you can have immigration, to allow both just lowers the living standards for the nations people and in the end destroys your civilization. The Romans found this out 1600 years ago. When Rome fell to the Barbarians, the Barbarians were already living in the city walls attracted by free bread and circus.
1
@yourlocaldolphin True but it was the tyranny of low expectations. If you live in a high housing commission area that's the level of education state school's believe you deserve.
1
@oldbloke204 No it was the tyranny of low expectations. She lived in housing commission area. I struck it years ago. When my eldest daughter was in year seven (the last year of primary at that time) the school planned a full adult graduation party. Parents on welfare, or in rental houses, ran up their credit cards. They paid for adult formal dresses, professional hair and makeup, even car hire. I spoke to the teachers who had organised it. I was upset by the waste of money by families who couldn't afford it. Along with the sexualisation of twelve year olds. It was a large school and there were three year seven teachers. They all said that because it was a low socio economic demographic area the teachers had all agreed none of the kids would complete high school and go to graduation. I said they will have their year ten semi formal when this might be more appropriate. They laughed and said as if these kids will even complete year ten. That was the point when I lost all faith in our socialist education system. We made huge sacrifices but we found the money for a private school. The stats about private education in 1600s and free and compulsory education after circa 1870, I'd discovered at my private ladies secondary college. Which I begged to attend in 1980 when the public highschool class was constantly disrupted by the boys blowing up condoms and constantly sexually assaulting the girls.
1
@davidtaylor351 Thousands of years ago Plato said democracies inevitably lead to tyrannies..
1
@oldbloke204 Good on them.
1
US has much more socialism in health care now. And Australians did well in the 50s and 60s without socialised health care. Indeed immigrants flocked to the country, despite being warned that unlike Europe we had no socialised health care and that they would have to join a friendly society or take out private insurance.
1
Not a guinea pig (Andy peltola) I remember ABBA singing about the ridiculous high taxes in the 70s, Money Money Money.
1
@BBelle64 I didn't say it was a great system. Americans, and I know I'm stereotyping, don't like the British NHS system, and I don't blame them.
1
@jamesmorrow1646 Mussolini was a socialist dictator. Only those left of Stalin, think he was far right.
1