On the subject of rubbish.
This is what most of the electorate will remember come election time.
Yet productivity was the LOWEST during work choices.
So yeah, screwing the workers over really helps the economy?
Really? Ya think?
I mean where does this really rate on the political stupidity scale? ~ i reckon no more than 4 on a 1 to 10 scale with work no choices scoring a perfect 10.
When it comes to election time, it will not be a judgement about who has a perfect score.
Tle current Labor/Green government will also be judged on it's own economic management, which is far from pretty.
Hang on who are all those heavily armed police out side my place taking aim at my front door.........
The question should be, will life be better under Tony, I doubt it.
Sydboy, everyone has had a their fill of Gillard and Swan telling them everything is fine.
If it was, people would be spending money, which they aren't. Therefore Tony is going to win, like it or not.
The question should be, will life be better under Tony, I doubt it.
However most people like to have a belief, that running a country is like running a household.
The government has pushed forward with the fiscal management platform, voters don't believe them, too many contradictions.
I think they are starting to work out how to run a government, but it is 'game over'. lol
The question should be, will life be better under Tony, I doubt it.
People are spending money. They may not be spending them at department stores, but they are out at cafes and spending up big on electronics. The constant media barages that the end is nigh has sapped confidence.
Also the fact that a lot of households have gone back to their historic savings level of around 10% of income. Considering how fast retail sales were booming through the early naughties it's no wonder the likes of Gerry Harvey and the debt burdened owners of Myer are constantly complaining about how tough it is.
the point I keep raising is the right leaning on this forum are holding up Abbott and co as being amazing economic managers when there is not a skerrick of evidence so far that the LNP will be any better than what we have.
If anything, a lot of them were part of the Howard Govt, and so far no one has challenged me on teh fact that he was a profligate PM who ran a high tax high spending Govt for many years. IF Abbott wants to bring back the golden days of negative private savings in Australia, then no thanks.
This Green/Labor Socialist left wing government just cannot manage money. This communism at it's best.
It is history repeating it self all over again.
It will take a decade to clean up this Green/Labor mess and then by that time the dumb wits will say "IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT".
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...ility-in-tatters/story-fn7078da-1226563053957
the point I keep raising is the right leaning on this forum are holding up Abbott and co as being amazing economic managers when there is not a skerrick of evidence so far that the LNP will be any better than what we have.
If anything, a lot of them were part of the Howard Govt, and so far no one has challenged me on teh fact that he was a profligate PM who ran a high tax high spending Govt for many years. IF Abbott wants to bring back the golden days of negative private savings in Australia, then no thanks.
Personally, although the financial situation of a country is important, I feel most unhappy when I feel my liberty is under threat. Though I don't think the LibNats are perfect in this regard at all, the overarching totalitararian Fabian socialist agenda of the LabGreens is highly disconcerting.
I'm sure that I'd have much to whinge about under an Abbott gu'mint, but I guarantee I'd be overall more at ease.
= life would be better... at least psychologically.
Personally, although the financial situation of a country is important, I feel most unhappy when I feel my liberty is under threat. Though I don't think the LibNats are perfect in this regard at all, the overarching totalitararian Fabian socialist agenda of the LabGreens is highly disconcerting.
I'm sure that I'd have much to whinge about under an Abbott gu'mint, but I guarantee I'd be overall more at ease.
= life would be better... at least psychologically.
You could join me in slagging off Howard/Costello for failing to counter this for the long term benefit of Oz, but you cannot pin causation on them.
Seems you have forgotten what the LNP tried to do with Muhamed Haneef. He wanted to leave the guy locked up even though the evidence was rapidly mounting that the guy was innocent. Even blind Freddy and his mates could see that.
halving of capital gains tax on assets held for more than 12 months.
Ever since that decision investment properties have run at a loss. Pretty sure that decision had a major bearing on the debt boom that followed!
yet the statistics show that the current Government has never had tax revenue as high as the lowest point under Howard, so what was he doing with all that money? Splashing it out on middle class welfare. He pretty much wasted $100B of resource boom tax revenue. He also helped to hollow out the tax base of the country. A once in a century boom in corporate tax revenues and he acted like it was a permanent shift in Government revenue.
I'd have had a lot more respect for the man if he'd set up a SWF in 2002 and placed all boom time revenue it it so that future generations could benefit. Just imagine that. In less than a decade we could have had a SWF worth at least $200B now, instead we're left with a legacy of baby bonus handouts and middle class welfare that was really getting out of control. Probably the current lot we have in power would have acted jsut the same, but they've never had the revenue to try it.
As for taking anything in The Australian seriously, well the level of bias in that publication is well known. I still have a good laugh with the Simpsons and the banner following a plane - "Fox news, not racist, but No.1 with racists". To publicly stand by an article that linked wind farms with paedophilia, well if that's the integrity of their journalism then no thanks - http://www.presscouncil.org.au/document-search/adj-1555/
yet the statistics show that the current Government has never had tax revenue as high as the lowest point under Howard,
yet the statistics show that the current Government has never had tax revenue as high as the lowest point under Howard, so what was he doing with all that money? Splashing it out on middle class welfare. He pretty much wasted $100B of resource boom tax revenue. He also helped to hollow out the tax base of the country. A once in a century boom in corporate tax revenues and he acted like it was a permanent shift in Government revenue.
http://www.presscouncil.org.au/document-search/adj-1555/
Total taxation revenue COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT
2005–06 $m 245 222
2006–07 $m 261 988
2007–08 $m 285 672
2008–09 $m 278 002
2009–10 $m 267 171
2010–11 $m 288 075
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