Did He Really Mean To Say That?

No, the video isn't funny at all.

"Neo-liberalism and the free-market fundamentalism it has produced has been revealed as little more than personal greed dressed up as an economic philosophy. And, ironically, it now falls to social democracy to prevent liberal capitalism from cannibalising itself."

-Kevin Rudd

Wow, he might as well have started quoting Karl Marx as far as the Australian is concerned. Rupert is probably already on the phone screaming instructions. Let's see if Rudd's intervention and regulation extends to more than handing over tax payer cash to rich losers. It's funny how the riche hate hate hate government interference and intervention, except for when it comes in the form of a bail out for their eminently foreseeable fuck ups. Seeing an Aussie PM amp up the rhetoric against neo-liberalism and Thatcherite Howard-style trickle down economics is, well, like a Swiss politician railing against charging interest.

Now if he could just put some distance between the himself and the cruise-missile left...