philperth2010 wrote on Apr 24
th, 2012 at 10:31pm:
progressiveslol wrote on Apr 24
th, 2012 at 10:21pm:
Kat wrote on Apr 24
th, 2012 at 10:18pm:
Well said, Phil, and 100% correct.
Imagine if you could convince people it were true lol bit hard I would say.
After all, you know the Australia people are stupid, pretty sure a labrat told us so.
I don't know about that.....If the ALP where not so gun shy and took Abbott on by having confidence in their policies they would wipe the floor with the blow hard.....The problem is they are trying so hard to appeal to everyone they end up appealing to nobody.....Labor should just accept the section of the public that are self serving and don't give a stuff about anyone but themselves will never vote for them and do what is best for the majority not the minority.....Let Abbott appeal to the elites and nanny lovers in society and watch him lose his appeal!!!
You forget a few inconvenient items in your 'wipe the floor with him'
Talking about the GFC and why is Australia in better shape than all the other countries
1. Because Australia went into debt.
No because all the other countries tried that, Australia followed.
2. Because labor are good managers of money.
lol, well we know the answer to that one
3. Because Australia, compared to the other countries, started out their bailouts with zero debt and money in the bank to boot.
Spot on.
If liberals were like labor and spent on top of the close to $100 billion debt labor left Howard, then we would have started the GFC with debts over $100 billion. Considering Howard was in for 8 years and if he spent like labor, we could have been anywhere from $110 billion in debt, to $150 or so billion.
Starting the GFC with $100 billion in debt would have been bad enough, so start with that, but remember it could have been worse with labor spend and waste.
So how would Australia be fairing then and tell us now why Australia is in such a good position.
People know that it is much easier to spend and waste than it is to pull your head in and save.
You have an uphill battle convincing the people that a government who spends, wastes and taxes, is better than a government who did the hard work and went through the scorn of having to save.
We all know that labor are (trying) riding on the coat tails of liberals and our hard work.
What a load of crap.....The Hawke / Keating Governments also started with debt left over from the Fraser / Howard years.....The also went through a recession and made the economic changes that Howard prospered from......The economy was already recovering when Howard tool office but it was Howard who wasted the boom by neglecting infrastructure and social spending in favor of pumping billions of dollars into the private sector and providing billions of dollars in election bribes that eroded the integrity of the budget.....When the ALP took office in 2007 they where confronted with another world wide recession that forced Labor to once again take the hard economic decisions and wear the fall in revenue.....What we know is the Coalition would have been in the same situation as Labor because the budget was in structural deficit due to the massive tax cuts and spending on wealthfare the Howard Government used to bribe the electorate and win elections.....The Coalition have never faced hard economic times apart from during the Fraser years and look how they stuffed that up!!!