Category Archives: Scumbags

The Opening Salvos in the Election of the Next Wizard of Oz

Posted on August 12, 2013 by dgmattichakjr

So now that the issues have been made so clear to me, I settled in to watch my fourth favorite spectator sport (behind cricket, Formula 1 and Australian Rules Football), politics. The opening salvo was fired on both sides when the protagonists met for the first Leaders’ Debate at the Press Club Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Australian History, D G Mattichak jr, Economy, media, newspapers, print media, Scumbags, social media, tax | Tagged dgmattichakjr, Economy, election 2013, kevin rudd, tony abbott | 4 Comments

Customer Training in the Age of Digital Efficiency

Posted on August 9, 2013 by dgmattichakjr

Unless you live in a remote part of the earth where everything isn’t bar coded, or under a rock (or both), then you will be familiar with the process. When you come to pay for your purchases you are confronted by a bank of screens with all of the scales, bags and barcode readers are lined up at the front end of the store with a single attendant overseeing their operation. This person is there to offer assistance to customers that have difficulties with operating the technology and to make sure that every potato gets weighed. Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Computers, D G Mattichak jr, Economy, Scumbags | Tagged dgmattichakjr, Economy, mattichak, plutocrats, self checkout, supermarkets, technology | 2 Comments

The Color of Money

Posted on April 26, 2013 by dgmattichakjr

Both sides are secure in the knowledge that whatever happens the expensive plans that they present during their meaningless electioneering will be financed because the banks will let them print as much money as they want to spend. The fiscal projections of the rival parties has very little to do with how much money they possess, that is relatively immaterial. Their projections are based on how much they can reasonably overheat the economy before there will be too great a burden on the people to sustain. Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Banks, central banks, D G Mattichak jr, Economy, Fiat Money, gold, newspapers, Scumbags | Tagged dgmattichakjr, Fiat Money, Fractional Reserve Banking, Inflation, politicians, printing money, value of money | 5 Comments

Freedom of Speech and the Right to Remain Silent

Posted on March 21, 2013 by dgmattichakjr

Just the fact that the New South Wales Parliament considered revoking the right of its citizens to remain silent when being questioned by police is mind boggling enough in itself. That this bill actually passed, and was paid for with the standard thirty pieces of silver that is the due of those who betray the people that they are supposed to be representing, is unbelievable. Regardless of the motivation there can never be sufficient reason to compel anyone to be a witness against themselves and by undermining this fundamental human right the NSW Nazi Liberal Party have revealed their truest intentions. If ever there was a time when we should be using our much vaunted freedom of speech to speak out against abuses of our freedom then this de-evolutionary step towards autocratic tyranny is one. Continue reading →