Labor was peddling this video the other day on twitter.


It's ok, not fantastic though.

longweekend58 wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 4:08pm:

Just because you got a laugh making fun of yourself once doesn't mean the same joke will work again ,longwhine.
You are the last person here that could get away with putting sh it on someone else for grammar/spelling.

cods wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 4:19pm:


Its much better to be in the middle of a Depression than to have debt and a strong economy with low interest rates, business growth and unemployment under 5%.
I can see how the present situation would upset those that were hoping for a total collapse of our economy.
With a strong growing economy 300 billion is easily paid back but if we had sunk into a Depression as Abbott would have had us do we would be lucky to have any banks left, unemployment of 20% and bread lines stretching as far as the eye can see.
I choose growth and employment..neo cons choose a lost generation and regional destabilisation.

nairbe wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 5:06pm:


In the 50's 3,000 pounds for a house was expensive but now its bugga all.
The neo cons fail to see that our countries debt deminishes quickly as time passes by and in fact the so called massive debt Whitlam incurred to buy the country back would by todays standards be small change.
As our wealth grows todays debt disappears with little effort purely because of basic economics..maybe some neo cons should do some simple courses if they dont understand things.
But I suspect most of them are upset purely because Labor has kept this country ticking along nicely while most of the rest of the western world led by conservative govts are in and our of recession like yo yos

cods wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 4:19pm:


Correction - it's going to be $300 BILLION, not $300 MILLION.

Armchair_Politician wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 6:41am:




slip of the keyboard sorry about that to all those who pointed it out... I am sure swan would be delighted though.. ha.ha.


as for not being much as the comrades keep pointing out..

he has had to increase it by $100b........


if its not much why not go for the half,trillion or whatever comes next..

I am one of these people that try to picture just what a billion looks like.. it escapes me..maybe I would rather not know.

Armchair_Politician wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 6:42am:


I completely challenge your assertion that Abbott was successful in the Government. Please explain in which portfolio he was successful. In health he oversaw the most serious decline in healthcare this country has seen, and ageing was failed as no plan or vision was put in place now leaving us with an insurmountable mountain to climb with the ageing population. All his other positions were as parliamentary secretaries so ho hum. I will also refute that the Howard Government were Successful. They won many elections but as a long term visionary government they fail the country monumentally and as time goes by we begin to understand that more and more. We now have massive infrastructure problems, ageing population issues, struggling health system, a one faced economy in mining, involvement in wars based on lies, a divided population on racial and social grounds. The only good thing Howard did was pay off a debt and even that he didn't do that was Costello, Howard actually blew the rivers of gold on middle class welfare.