Only in the same way that only "fools" believe any party is looking after their interests.
Like it or not there will always be a place for unions, collective bargaining, and protectionist policies and in general, those interests are represented by the Labour party.
Yes, we’ll always have unions, but whether they look after the best interests of workers is debatable. Significant falls in union membership suggest that workers are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the unions that supposedly represent them.
This disillusionment with unions has quite understandably translated into disillusionment with union-dominated ALP governments. Hence the landslide defeats for the ALP governments in NSW and QLD. Hence the landslide defeat that was certain for the last Rudd government if Rudd hadn’t been deposed as leader. Hence the certain landslide defeat for the Gillard government in September if the red-haired wrecker hadn’t been booted out by her own party.
Just because we had some good years under Howard, does not mean they are the default party to lead. This attitude of all intelligent, hard-working Australians voting by default for the Liberals, is arrogant, elitist, offensive and a major failing of the Liberal party and dare I suggest it a reason why Howard lost his last election.
ALP governments have a history of being poor economic managers. The general pattern is that when Labor comes to office they inherit low or no debt and healthy budget surpluses, and they quickly turn them into substantial debts and big deficits.
Then along comes a Lib government that fixes the situation, followed by the next Labor government that repeats the same old ALP pattern.
I see it as common sense, not arrogant and elitist, to suggest that only people who are gullible and foolish will believe Rudds’ spin and put him back into office after his woeful track record last time around.
In typical Labor fashion, Rudd inherited a strong economy with no debt and a healthy budget surplus, and quickly turned it into a substantial debt and a big budget deficit. He splashed money around with reckless abandon, wasting scores of billions on ill-considered schemes like pink batts and mostly unneeded and grossly overpriced school halls.
He inherited a proven effective border control policy, and immediately turned it into a debacle that has caused us to be flooded with illegal immigrants that are costing us tens of billions of dollars.
His pitiful economic incompetence and wild spending have seen him desperately searching for ways to bring in more revenue to counteract the money pouring out – hence a range of new taxes such as the mining and carbon taxes that have killed some projects and forced quite a few business owners out of business. And now to top it all off the bastard has the audacity to start raiding our bank accounts as well!!!!
Labor made promise after promise to bring the budget back to surplus, but of course it never happened. How the hell
could it happen when the fools kept spending money like there was no tomorrow.
Rudd of course blames the GFC and falling revenue for the position the government now finds itself in. But what he doesn’t mention is that there’s been a mining boom for most of the last six years, nor does he mention that he and Gillard could have produced a budget surplus for every one of the last six years if they hadn’t spent money so recklessly, and if they hasn’t been so incompetent and irresponsible on border control.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not stupid enough to vote for the renewal of the contract of a proven incompetent like Kevin Rudd.
If I or anyone else owned a business that was being run into the ground by an incompetent manager, we’d terminate his employment and replace him with somebody else.
Kevin Rudd and the ALP have been running our country down for too long – it’s just common sense for us to say
‘Kevin ol’ mate, enough is enough, out you go!’