To: SeekAndFind
The leadership of the Liberal Party ( strange name to Americans I know since the Liberal Party is the more conservative party in Australia ), as always been precarious. Not really. The Australians are using the terms correctly. Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty.
In the USA the terms conservative and liberal were coined over ideas of govt spending. The left wanted to spend "liberally" and the right wanted to spend or expand govt in a "conservative" manner. That is how the terms came to be coined in the USA.
17 posted on
09/14/2015 5:35:48 AM PDT by
Trumpinator
(You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
To: Trumpinator
RE: The Australians are using the terms correctly. Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty.
Well, they’re soon going to find out like the word “Democratic” ( as in North Korea’s Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ) and “Affordable” ( as in the Affordable Care Act ), and many other terms, the word will slowly lose its meaning with the election of Carbon Credit supporter Malcolm Turnbull.
19 posted on
09/14/2015 5:41:40 AM PDT by
SeekAndFind
(What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
To: Trumpinator
Exactly. Here in Canada the Liberal party leaders were probably more free market and liberty oriented that their counterparts in the US at the time (pre World War II).
49 posted on
09/14/2015 11:04:47 AM PDT by
Sam Gamgee
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
To: Trumpinator
"Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty."Oh, so they speak Latin in Australia?
Who knew...
66 posted on
09/14/2015 2:51:32 PM PDT by
Redbob
(Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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