John Linton ....it doesn't deserve to also have the total inexperience, incompetence and doctrinally derived stupidity of a Krudd, Whine and Guillotine when the country is fire and drought ravaged and also facing the worst economic problems of its existence.
Krudd's 'first' priority after being elected was to waste a great deal of time and money running his "ideas" summit, saying "sorry" to someone on behalf of someone and signing a 'protocol' that Australia was already adhering to while immediately repudiating the future requirements of that protocol which was why the previous government deemed signing it was a waste of time. And by the way - where is Krudd's "list of implementations from the "ideas summit"? Nowhere of course. It was a chilling reminder of just how stupid the man that some of you had elected to an office he had zero credentials and abilities to hold actually was and how little he understood about the office he now held.
Whine's contribution to Australia's financial well being, and his clear demonstration that his knowledge of finance and economics equated to something less than zero (naturally he was made treasurer!) was to trumpet that "his" budget was all about "getting the inflation genie back in the bottle". Apart from the crassness and sheer inapplicability of using such a truly dumb phrase and being TOTALLY wrong about Australia's financial situation he showed himself to be a total wanker with no more knowledge of finance than pond scum. Where's the inflation genie now, Whine? - is it back in the bottle?
La Gillard's screeching voice (which must rate as one of the major noise pollutants in the ACT - God I hope whoever is giving her elocution lessons makes some progress soon) and her juvenile hopping and skipping while she tore up some Work Choices pamphlets was only done to disguise that, after all her rhetoric, she WAS KEEPING MOST OF THE WORK CHOICES KEY PROVISIONS and only throwing 'some bones' to the Union running dog commo's that her parents had indoctrinated her to idolise. What she has tried to do by her stupid changes is to ensure that unemployment in these difficult times becomes even worse by her doctrinaire stupidities.
And then there's the f***ing "stimulus packages" with their inclusions of p***ing away other tax payers earnings in cash give aways.
This article in today's SMH outlines how Rudd has lied outrageously since his second day in office and how his wild distortions get ever more ridiculous. Krudd is a compulsive liar with a sociopatic attitude to his lying which he clearly believes no-one notices:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/paul-sheehan/rudds-credibility-as-an-honest-politician-is-eroding/2009/02/08/1234027847278.html
Do the lunatics that still approve of Krudd in those opinion polls actually listen to his constant lying or do they think he tells the truth?
As I can have no credibility in my comments that such pointless populism is as I wrote previously, simply a modern day "Panem et circenses", let me quote from today's WSJ (the most read article in that paper today):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123396623933859023.html
"A dollar doled out in jobless benefits may well be spent by the worker who receives it. That $1 of spending will count as economic activity and add to GDP.
But that same dollar can't be conjured out of thin air. The government has to take that dollar away from someone else -- either in higher taxes, or by issuing new debt in the form of a bond. The person who is taxed or buys the bond will have $1 less to spend. If the beneficiary of that $1 spends it on something less productive than the taxed American or the lender would have, then the net impact on growth will be negative.
Some Democrats claim these transfer payments are stimulating because they go mainly to poor people, who immediately spend the money. Tax cuts for business or for incomes across the board won't work, they add, because those tax cuts go disproportionately to "the rich," who will save the money. But a saved $1 doesn't vanish from the economy, unless it is stuffed into a mattress. It enters the financial system, where it is lent to others; or it is invested in the stock market as capital for businesses; or it is invested in entirely new businesses, which are the real drivers of job creation and prosperity."
Obama is having a lot of trouble getting his "p*** away as much money as quickly as possible plan" passed and that's not because the Republicans are against its composition but also some Democras are against it! - something that doesn't happen in Australian politics.
Sure its only another opinion but it does serve to underline the same problem we have with Krudd et alia - Obama is a very inexperienced "leader" with no knowledge of finance who is taking bad advice and trying to use his 'popularity' to do some really bad things. As the article notes
"That's rhetoric for a campaign, not for a President hoping to rally bipartisan support."
- exactly what Krudd and Whine are doing with their attacks on Turnbull - they are playing really bad politics instead of addressing real problems in the best possible way. As the opinion goes on to note (and the same applies in Australia):
"because the size and waste of the stimulus means we won't have much ammunition left. The spending will take the U.S. budget deficit up to some 12% of GDP, about double the peak of the 1980s and into uncharted territory. The tragedy of the Obama stimulus is that we are getting so little for all that money"
Krudd's uneducated and totally ridiculous lack of knowledge and his childish posturing and antics (and his shameless serial lying) are removing any hope of sensibly dealing with the financial situations in Australia.