The Rattus Capitalitus believes in Capitalism very passionately... "but some people appear to abuse it [Capitalism]."...

Oh boy... For the kid who sold Telstra for mums and dads to take a bath (or a plunge) on the stock market, that is high hypocrisy of the devilish kind.

What is Capitalism, I ask you?

First let me say Capitalism is not a social system. Capitalism is not a community, not a society. Capitalism is a system of trade, in which you can sell whatever to someone else who wants what you're selling at the price you are selling — or may be prepared to offer you more because they really want it. Of course what you have to sell, you bought it at half the price you are selling at, but may have added hyped-up value on it.

This system is far from being "honest" as it also implies that everyone can benefit from it, but instead of providing a platform on which everyone can benefit, Capitalism — as presently structured — creates a pyramid on which the lesser lower stones carry the most weight and burden. Yes Mr PM some people at the top abuse the system but these abuses ARE written in the present system. Unless the society can curb these abuses, the system THRIVES on being abused — and YOU of all people have helped these abuses to occur by all your sneaky dismantling of the Australian fair dinkum social boundaries and turning everyone into little greedy Capitalo-fascist monsters...

Throw him out! 

The Communications Union has accused Telstra of sacking an employee for blowing the whistle on company plans to de-unionise the workforce.

The CEPU says Jim Ziogas was fired last Friday after he downloaded the information from the company's internal website.

The plan was leaked to the media in August this year.

Telstra has released a statement saying while it does not comment on circumstances involving current or former staff, it will consider disciplinary action against employees who have deliberately damaged the reputation of the company and breached their employment contract.

But the union's president, Ed Husic, says Mr Ziogas has done nothing wrong, and that Telstra must reinstate him.

"He had found that document, was concerned about the impact on him and his workmates, took it to the union and as a result of that action of a document that was unsecured, he's been subjected to 10 weeks of interrogation by Telstra and its lawyers and was eventually sacked," he said.