John Linton
(apologies to Juvenal for trivialising his acid comment).....or as practiced by Krudd it would be more like a version of the old Paul Hogan come onĀ - "sling another 10 bill in cash on the barbie, sorry, to the Labor voters - Whine."
So after a mercifully Krudd free period, the master of making statements of the bleeding obvious 3 months too late (correcting his previous 180 degree opposite views) has returned to a drive time radio station in your car (is 7.05 am drive time these days?).
I guess Krudd had his 4 week holiday so someone could finally convince him that "Everything is going to fine in Australia because we are protected by....." (his last public statement before taking 4 weeks off in the most dangerous period in Australia's financial history) isn't actually credible any more and I cringed as I listened to his toneless and emotionless delivery of meaningless platitudes on AM 630 as I drove to the office this morning. Why does that d***head use such a passionless monotone (a speaking clock has more variation in its sentence construction and delivery) when speaking about very serious issues?.
I can't recall his exact words but the substance of what the moron was trying to say is contained in this article:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/time-to-pull-together-pleads-rudd/2009/01/19/1232213540892.html
So, despite his emphatic statements to the contrary prior to his 4 weeks off, grandstanding at the cricket and generally poncing around various parts of Melbourne and its environs, on his first day "back at work" he takes the time to travel and tuck in to the fine dining and the contents of the best cellar in NSW at Kirribilli House to let the assembled friends of Labor know what he has currently learned - "that things are going to be very tough in 2009".
Brilliant.
What a truly tremendous piece of understanding and so very f***ing helpful to be told by such a total moron what everyone has known for more than 6 months.
I guess he should go back on holiday - oh wait - in 5 days time he will, yet again, be jetting off around the world on his private wide body jet, to make his insightful pronouncements to the grateful citizens of Indonesia, India and Switzerland!! I guess five days of 'work' in Australia is all he can manage in these, as he puts it so insightfully, "tough times". Poor darling needs a break in between making his breathlessly awaited pronouncements.
I guess it was appropriate that directly across the water from the Kirribilli House dining room, 300 bankruptcy accountants and lawyers were swilling champagne celebrating the record growth they were experiencing:
http://business.smh.com.au/business/let-the-bad-times-roll-the-recession-they-cant-wait-to-have-20090119-7kth.html
With the current lack of political and financial leadership firmly installed in Canberra (or Davoz or wherever) for the next two years it is obvious that everyone outside the Australian Labor Party/Trade Unions/Hand out recipients will have to work even harder than they currently are to attempt to produce enough tax money for Krudd and Whine to continue p***ing it away in ever more bizarre hand outs.
I made a contribution earlier this morning. I started to put in place some of the planned changes to Exetel's ADSL services by increasing the midnight to noon download allowance on all ADSL1 and ADSL2 plans from 48 gb to 54 gb - for those who struggle with math before their morning caffeine neurone enlivener - that's adding around 10% more download allowance per month for the average Exetel user of ADSL at no increase in monthly payments. Given the gravity of the situation that Krudd has now made me aware of I even back dated the implementation to 1st January 2009.
As things are now going to get 'much tougher' I expect to see all other right thinking companies, with the exception of Telstra, improve the value of their various offerings in the near term future . We had planned for a number of scenarios but it's actually far less clear to me than it is to Krudd (despite having the benefit of an additional six months realisation that things would be very tough in 2009) as to what needs to be done about whatever it is that will transpire. I guess we won't be "sitting down with the unions" to negotiate less layoffs and pay cuts as we are planning to double our Australian employee numbers and we gave significant remuneration increases to almost 15% of our current employees this month.
So, despite Krudd's pronouncements, Exetel is not going to take any part of his cautionary advice and is already doing the exact opposite as, unlike that d***head, we really did always understand that the Australian economy was in for a really tough time in 2009 and his 'macro' assumptions about what to do in such circumstances are so stupid it makes you want to cry. He really is a very, very ignorant and stupid example of a Labor politician at the very worst such a stereotype conjures up to the semi-sentient mind. Krudd gives new meaning to the term "light weight" - I think you'd need an atomic scale to detect any brain mass at all.
...and it isn't only me who thinks Krudd's stupid statements about 'wage pauses' are the sheerest nonsense:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-working-families/2009/01/20/1232213642972.html
For the first time I think I can detect a slowing of the various 'business tides' that we monitor ever more closely as we try to detect if and when our particular businesses will become affected by the financial problems that are so widely publicised. I notice my almost next door neighbour, Mrs Ridout, suggested that Australia is still months away from feeling the impact of the problems in the US and the EU:
http://business.smh.com.au/business/businesses-brace-for-harder-times-20090120-7l0i.html
and she would have far better detailed insight than most. It is easy to make an error as the indications are so very slight, at least at the moment, that it's very hard to rely on what are often no more than very marginal changes. Ignoring Krudd's idiocies and moronic exhortations - it may be that the Australian communications business may have begun to be affected before Heather's predicted time frame.
....and I've still got 12 hours work left in the day........