From Caro’s website
Jane Caro has a low boredom threshold and so wears many hats; including author, novelist, lecturer, mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator, speaker, broadcaster and award winning advertising writer. The common thread running through her career is a delight in words and a talent for using them to connect with other people.
Here is an example of her delight in words:
Who cares about a surplus? When a government is in surplus, the community is in deficit.
Sorry, Jane, but your use of words hasn’t helped you connect with me.
HT: Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog
By the way, I’m looking forward to reading Gerard’s paper “Professor Manne – From Student Leftie to Mature Age Conservative Lawn-Mowing Counsellor and a Revert to the Left: Towards an understanding of how constant opinion change can advance a tenured academic career.”
I wonder if her bank thinks the same way about her credit card. She should read Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.
Bruce
1 Mar 13 at 7:05 pm
What a moron. What a blundering stupid moron.
Jc
1 Mar 13 at 7:14 pm
The Media Watch Dog sniffed this one out earlier.
Jane Caro or the ever increasing ranks of redundant Fairfax rent-an-opinion crew provide a valuable service – an inner city dinner party you can turn off at any time. Or not turn on at all.
H B Bear
1 Mar 13 at 7:16 pm
Margot, is that you?
Alfonso
1 Mar 13 at 7:34 pm
Jane Caro likes words, problem is Jane thinks volume counts more than quality.
Tintarella di Luna
1 Mar 13 at 7:40 pm
’Tis a pity she has no talent, inter alia, for using hyphens appropriately because “award winning advertising writer” requires two.
Deadman
1 Mar 13 at 7:44 pm
Just another utterly clueless, inner city marxist hypocrite.
FFS, these people give me the proverbials.
These pompous, obsolete marxist dinosaur idiots need to be extinctified. The simplest way in which to do this is to turn off the taxpayer extortion tap – the equivalent, in their case, of a meteorite strike.
If you’re that keen on people hearing your worthless opinions jane – get yourself a megaphone, a soapbox and get thee down to the Domain (or start a massively unread blog, a la il semenblogger and syphilis spudpeeler).
You’re literally a museum piece, jane. Deal with it.
Rabz
1 Mar 13 at 8:04 pm
Stick to advertising, Jane. The money is better. And it’s actually a lot more fun.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
1 Mar 13 at 8:07 pm
Gerard is going to change the name of his site to Media Dog Watch. I shake my head every time I visit MWD. The collective talent of the left, I mean dogs looking for a lamppost, will be howling after the election. Meanwhile we put up with them. It is obvious Caro has no friends to tell her she’s shite.
johninoxley
1 Mar 13 at 8:14 pm
Caro also thinks that funding for private schools should be abolished and public schools are better. Says a lot.
Andrew
1 Mar 13 at 8:15 pm
I have to say MWD is unusally pithy this week. My sides still hurt. Gerard, sorry, Nancy has a target rich environment. I wonder if the human race will survive the insanity of the progressives?
Bruce
1 Mar 13 at 8:22 pm
I would imagine she is in great demand by misused-car sales folk and reeely reely real estate persons. But I do not have to imagine many of her creative utterances from seeing her perform on that advertising comedy thing on TV. It is just about her level.
Amfortas
1 Mar 13 at 8:38 pm
Her intellect is as keen as that other face-pulling ABC regular, Corinne Grant. Both as keen as a plastic baby training knife, and both about as useful.
Every now and again you think an original thought has bubble up to the surface with them, but no, it’s just tired student leftism regurgitated for 20 or 30 years.
brc
1 Mar 13 at 9:12 pm
Aren’t we all “social commentators”?
Let me try: Jane Caro is an economic dunce and a moron.
Have I connected with anyone?
Ant
1 Mar 13 at 9:28 pm
You certainly have with me, Ant.
Jc
1 Mar 13 at 9:33 pm
Polly Filler
Pyrmonter
1 Mar 13 at 9:33 pm
The piling on at this blog on Leftie twats is just magnificent.
Jc
1 Mar 13 at 9:35 pm
She wears many hats.
Martin
1 Mar 13 at 9:53 pm
Ah JC, you have brought back some treasured memories of some classic high school “pile ons”. Many a dickhead buried at the bottom of a pile of humanity at my country NSW high school in the 80′s.
Probably banned now, mores the pity. Still, I suppose figuratively piling on dickhead lefties at the Cat is a good adult substitute.
Huckleberry Chunkwot
1 Mar 13 at 10:09 pm
Including the fox hat?
Huckleberry Chunkwot
1 Mar 13 at 10:10 pm
A rite of passage at my school in the 70s/80s – both at the bottom of and later on as one of the pilers.
Society is too fucking soft nowadays.
Rabz
1 Mar 13 at 10:24 pm
I was rarely the victim of a pile-on after deploying my patented flatulence counter-measure a couple of times.
Fatty O'Barrel
2 Mar 13 at 8:01 am
Of all the dim-witted leftie women we are plagued with none get my hackles up more than Caro.
Tracey
2 Mar 13 at 8:48 am
Theodore Dalrymple has already given a forensic analysis of the thinking of these people and the horrible outcomes for others when they are in power.
Denise
2 Mar 13 at 8:54 am
I am with you there but hell there’s such a lot of competition. Her nonsense about private schools really is beyond anything one can bear.
I think Jane is an example of someone who as a child was never told to be quiet that she was talking rubbish and so has continued talking rubbish all her life. Can you believe she was a teacher, her sister is a teacher and apparently her neice is a teacher. That is terrifying in itself.
Those who wish to close all private schools are zombies, absolute mindless zombies, they make absolutely no sense at all.
Tintarella di Luna
2 Mar 13 at 8:58 am
Themes from Daniel aka Theodore Dalrymple’s writings from Wikipedia
Daniels’s writing has some recurring themes.[12]
* The cause of much contemporary misery in Western countries – criminality, domestic violence, drug addiction, aggressive youths, hooliganism, broken families – is the nihilistic, decadent and/or self-destructive behaviour of people who do not know how to live. Both the smoothing over of this behaviour, and the medicalisation of the problems that emerge as a corollary of this behaviour, are forms of indifference. Someone has to tell those people, patiently and with understanding for the particulars of the case, that they have to live differently.[13]
* Poverty does not explain aggressive, criminal and self-destructive behaviour. In an African slum you will find among the very poor, living in dreadful circumstances, dignity and decency in abundance, which are painfully lacking in an average English suburb, although its inhabitants are much wealthier.[14]
* An attitude characterised by gratefulness and having obligations towards others has been replaced – with awful consequences – by an awareness of “rights” and a sense of entitlement, without responsibilities. This leads to resentment as the rights become violated by parents, authorities, bureaucracies and others in general.[15]
* One of the things that makes Islam (or, more accurately, Islamism) attractive to young westernised Muslim men is the opportunity it gives them to dominate women.[16]
* Technocratic or bureaucratic solutions to the problems of mankind produce disasters in cases where the nature of man is the root cause of those problems.
* It is a myth, when going “cold turkey” from an opiate such as heroin, that the withdrawal symptoms are virtually unbearable; they are in fact rarely worse than flu.[17][18]
* Criminality is much more often the cause of drug addiction than its consequence.
* Sentimentality, which is becoming entrenched in British society, is “the progenitor, the godparent, the midwife of brutality”.[19]
* High culture and refined aesthetic tastes are worth defending, and despite the protestations of non-judgmentalists who say all expression is equal, they are superior to popular culture.[20][21][22]
* The ideology of the Welfare State is used to diminish personal responsibility. Erosion of personal responsibility makes people dependent on institutions and favours the existence of a threatening and vulnerable underclass.
* Moral relativism can easily be a trick of an egotistical mind to silence the voice of conscience.[23]
* Multiculturalism and cultural relativism are at odds with common sense.[24]
* The decline of civilised behaviour – self-restraint, modesty, zeal, humility, irony, detachment – ruins social and personal life.[25]
* The root cause of our contemporary cultural poverty is intellectual dishonesty. First, the intellectuals (more specifically, left-wing ones) have destroyed the foundation of culture, and second, they refuse to acknowledge it by resorting to the caves of political correctness.
* Beyond and above all other nations in the world, Britain is the place where all the evils summarised above are most clearly manifest.[26]
Denise
2 Mar 13 at 8:59 am
Like this pile Rabz?
Splatacrobat
2 Mar 13 at 9:04 am
Tintarella, her daughter is a teacher too. Be afraid…
Tracey
2 Mar 13 at 9:05 am
‘..her daughter is a teacher too’
Didn’t Jane say she hoped that her teacher daughter would never try to shield her charges from a gunman in the way that one brave teacher did at Sandy Hook?
Des Deskperson
2 Mar 13 at 9:37 am
Ah yes that’s right Des I’d forgotten as I like to forget everything Jane Caro says. No doubt I would’ve been very disadvantaged to have had Jane as my teacher.
Selflessness and sacrifice seem to have no place in the repertoire of today’s leftists. The virtues once admired in our civilised world: prudence, justice, courage and restraint are qualities now ridiculed by the left. Though whinging and whining are an olympic undertakings.
Tintarella di Luna
2 Mar 13 at 10:13 am
Nancy had a very good day yesterday. Her co-owner used the rapier thrust to great effect on Dave, in particular.
Dantanica
2 Mar 13 at 10:14 am
I thought she had a good point. If the government is over-taxing us, we are being robbed. A govt should be no bigger than absolutely necessary and should neither run surplus nor deficit, but balance its books.
andyd
2 Mar 13 at 10:17 am
Yes quite and don’t we all — But who does Jane Caro support andyd? – have a guess?
Tintarella di Luna
2 Mar 13 at 10:27 am
andyd would you vote for someone who said something like this?
Tintarella di Luna
2 Mar 13 at 10:31 am
LOL. Caro wasn’t saying any such thing. She was saying: If the government cannot afford to pay for X, Y and Z from consolidated revenue, then it should feel free to increase taxation, and/ or borrow the difference – and have current and future generations pay the principal and interest back through increased taxation – in order to so so.
Bull’s eye!
dover_beach
2 Mar 13 at 11:31 am
Caro is a classic rent-seeker. So when governments keep running deficits and the money finally runs out as it does with OPM, Caro would be the first a-hole screaming about the poor, the disadvantaged and especially her. Of course these pieces of human filth like Caro would sell their grandmother (who was probably also a teacher) to ensure they would be looked after
Mindfree
2 Mar 13 at 11:33 am
Apologies, shouldn’t cast aspersions on her grandmother..cheap shot at granny
Mindfree
2 Mar 13 at 11:34 am
you guys really don’t like linking to the sources in your posts do you?
I would have loved to read more but no time to google it right now
dan
2 Mar 13 at 12:40 pm
See Jane Fail Economics.
Talleyrand
2 Mar 13 at 12:57 pm
Jane,
With the greatest respect, you are completely off your rocker. You are also a hypocrite, because you make a living from selling shit to people and yet if you had your way they would have less disposable income to do so. But please do tell us more about all those fascinating ideas you have.
With warm regards
TBH
tbh
2 Mar 13 at 12:58 pm
Jane Caro was originally a media space and time buyer at ad agencies which suggests why she no longer is.
davey street
2 Mar 13 at 6:02 pm
In terms of government finances, how does Jane separate “government” and “community”.
The “community” are also taxpayers so it could be said that … ahem …. “they are us”.
Unless, of course, “community” means perennial spongers who never pay tax but have a heightened sense of how the taxes of other should be spent.
Fatty O'Barrel
2 Mar 13 at 6:14 pm
jane…..awww, fuck off.
caveman
2 Mar 13 at 6:26 pm