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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #15 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:02pm

Labor's saving grace has been that they have managed to steer us through the GFC better than any other government in the world, and the Libs would have been a disaster under Abbott, which would have seen massive rises in business failures, and unemployment.

If you believe what Abbott says, then you would have to reject him as a worthy economic manager.

OOPS!!! My Karma, ran over your Dogma!

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #16 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:14pm

cods wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 6:02pm:

darkhall67 wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:52pm:

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:21pm:

The left always cripple Australia.
With our GDP dropping then see we could be heading towards a recession (which we have to have!)
But this was primarily due to teh Queensland floods (not global warming!)

Just wait until Gillard's effect hits the next quarter!

You should be down on your knees thanking Paul Keating and Bob Hawke for their role in saving this economy from ruin.

oh we are we are... every night I light candles to tham thanking the messiah for sending them to us.....

the arse end of the world... we didnt deserve them

Yes they gave us the recession that we didn't have to have!

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #17 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:16pm

The Rudd/Gillard government has been the worst in Australia's history.
They have not achieved anything whatsoever, except massive debts!

Thankfully, it is coming to an end.

And once again, it will be left up to the Coalition to clean up the ALP mess.

This will be a good lesson for all voters not to vote ALP ever again.

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #18 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:18pm

cods wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 10:54am:

Julia Gillard met with the Queen in England .. She asked her, "Your
Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips
you can give to me"

"Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself
with intelligent people.."

Julia frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are
really intelligent?"

The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer
an intelligent riddle."

The Queen pushed a button on her intercom "Please send David Cameron in
here, would you?"

David Cameron walked into the room and said, "Yes, Your Majesty?"

The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, David, your mother and
father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who
is it?"

Without pausing for a moment, David Cameron answered, "That would be me."

"Yes! Very good," said the Queen...

Julia went back home to Australia and asked Wayne Swan, her Deputy Prime
Minister the same question.

"Wayne , answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child.
It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," said Wayne . "Let me get back to you on that one."

He went to his advisors and asked every one, but none could give him an
answer.

Finally, he ended up in the men's room and recognised Tony Abbott's shoes
in the next stall.

Wayne asked, "Tony, can you answer this for me? Your mother and Father have
a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"

Tony yelled back, "That's easy, it's me!"

Wayne smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak with

Julia. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle.

It's Tony Abbott"

Julia got up, stomped over to Swan, and angrily yelled into his face, "No,
You idiot! It's the English Prime Minister, David Cameron!"

AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS PRECISELY

its an oldie but a goody!

LOL

Love the extra twist Cods

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #19 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:24pm

beware wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 7:08pm:

Please don't tell me you are an economist. You answer your own questions with the statement you look to vilify with. Have you even a small understanding how good our economy is comparatively to other developed countries. You really don't get what is happening world wide do you.

Those Australians that are feeling the pain must reflect on what they have done to themselves instead of complaining about the government. We lived a world of debt during the 00's. While Costello worked his but off fighting Howard the spend thrift to pay debt off, the community ran up debt like never before. Over priced housing and multi credit cards. So who is lying to themselves???

No... you are wrong.... we ran up debt under Howard because unlike Keating's Govt we were feeling secure that the govt had their spending under control.....

The reason that this is not happening now is because middle australia knows that Julia wants their money.... Labor always does.

Labor cannot control their spending and the only way that they had ALL of this money to spend was that Howard saved it and spent it wisely.......

NOT SO ANYMORE!!!!!

Schools, insulation, you name it ,,, LABOR are a wasteful Govt and they have spent our nest egg and middle Australia know it.....

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OO, well some truth and much fantasy. Yes we spent wild because COSTELLO was hard at work but this neither justifies the stupid and self indulgent spending and expansion of debt nor makes it a good economic strategy. As the GFC showed us it will end in tears.

The current labor government have followed the normal pattern of spending on infrastructure that the liberals won't. The difference was the stimulas to counter the GFC. But i would never expect conservatives to understand the opinion of the majority of the worlds economists about how successful this was for our country as the conservative lobby always takes the fringe way out line to have something to argue about.

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #20 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:25pm

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:14pm:

cods wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 6:02pm:

darkhall67 wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:52pm:

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:21pm:

The left always cripple Australia.
With our GDP dropping then see we could be heading towards a recession (which we have to have!)
But this was primarily due to teh Queensland floods (not global warming!)

Just wait until Gillard's effect hits the next quarter!

You should be down on your knees thanking Paul Keating and Bob Hawke for their role in saving this economy from ruin.

oh we are we are... every night I light candles to tham thanking the messiah for sending them to us.....

the arse end of the world... we didnt deserve them

Yes they gave us the recession that we didn't have to have!

And by doing so, saved us from a FAR worse one.

Also, interest rates, inflation, debt and unemployment
were far lower when Keating lost power than they were
when Hawke WON power.

So they must have done SOMETHING right...er...left...er...

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #21 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:29pm

Kat wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:25pm:

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:14pm:

cods wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 6:02pm:

darkhall67 wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:52pm:

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:21pm:

The left always cripple Australia.
With our GDP dropping then see we could be heading towards a recession (which we have to have!)
But this was primarily due to teh Queensland floods (not global warming!)

Just wait until Gillard's effect hits the next quarter!

You should be down on your knees thanking Paul Keating and Bob Hawke for their role in saving this economy from ruin.

oh we are we are... every night I light candles to tham thanking the messiah for sending them to us.....

the arse end of the world... we didnt deserve them

Yes they gave us the recession that we didn't have to have!

And by doing so, saved us from a FAR worse one.

Also, interest rates, inflation, debt and unemployment
were far lower when Keating lost power than they were
when Hawke WON power.

So they must have done SOMETHING right...er...left...er...

Oh the hypothetical claim.

LOL

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #22 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:44pm

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:14pm:

cods wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 6:02pm:

darkhall67 wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:52pm:

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 1:21pm:

The left always cripple Australia.
With our GDP dropping then see we could be heading towards a recession (which we have to have!)
But this was primarily due to teh Queensland floods (not global warming!)

Just wait until Gillard's effect hits the next quarter!

You should be down on your knees thanking Paul Keating and Bob Hawke for their role in saving this economy from ruin.

oh we are we are... every night I light candles to tham thanking the messiah for sending them to us.....

the arse end of the world... we didnt deserve them

Yes they gave us the recession that we didn't have to have!

Foolish foolish man.

If you had done any research or study into economics and especially the Australian economy under hawke and keating you would have found out that YES, it WAS the recession we had to have.

And thanks to it , keating saved us from becoming a banana republic (ANOTHER of his sayings that is often misquoted by the uneducated right as meaning he turned us into one , rather than the truth- he was WARNING us we could become one , and then he took steps to prevent it.)

Thanks Mr Keating.

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #23 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:44pm

mozzaok wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:02pm:

Labor's saving grace has been that they have managed to steer us through the GFC better than any other government in the world, and the Libs would have been a disaster under Abbott, which would have seen massive rises in business failures, and unemployment.

If you believe what Abbott says, then you would have to reject him as a worthy economic manager.

talk about taking leeps.

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #24 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:53pm

progressiveslol wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:44pm:

mozzaok wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:02pm:

Labor's saving grace has been that they have managed to steer us through the GFC better than any other government in the world, and the Libs would have been a disaster under Abbott, which would have seen massive rises in business failures, and unemployment.

If you believe what Abbott says, then you would have to reject him as a worthy economic manager.

talk about taking leeps.

LOL
Naaa he was speaking about Labor in jest.

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #25 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:27pm

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the left has crippled our economy

Why the dishonesty when the story clearly states that the disasters of flood etc is the cause of the downturn and clearly nothing that any government would have been able to prevent.

Criticism when it’s due but paranoid inane dishonest rubbish is not particularly effective.

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #26 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:30pm

mozzaok wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:02pm:

Labor's saving grace has been that they have managed to steer us through the GFC better than any other government in the world, and the Libs would have been a disaster under Abbott, which would have seen massive rises in business failures, and unemployment.

If you believe what Abbott says, then you would have to reject him as a worthy economic manager.

You seem to be saying that Mr Abbotts economic credentials rely on the fact that he can not be believed?

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #27 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:34pm

Dnarever wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:27pm:

Quote:

the left has crippled our economy

Why the dishonesty when the story clearly states that the disasters of flood etc is the cause of the downturn and clearly nothing that any government would have been able to prevent.

Criticism when it’s due but paranoid inane dishonest rubbish is not particularly effective.

Not entirely true there.
Ross Garnaut made the suggestion that man made global warming caused the Queensland floods!

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #28 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:41pm

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:34pm:

Dnarever wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:27pm:

Quote:

the left has crippled our economy

Why the dishonesty when the story clearly states that the disasters of flood etc is the cause of the downturn and clearly nothing that any government would have been able to prevent.

Criticism when it’s due but paranoid inane dishonest rubbish is not particularly effective.

Not entirely true there.
Ross Garnaut made the suggestion that man made global warming caused the Queensland floods!

So it was Howards fault then? Stretching a bit I would think.

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Re: the left has crippled our economy
Reply #29 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:43pm

creep wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:34pm:

Dnarever wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:27pm:

Quote:

the left has crippled our economy

Why the dishonesty when the story clearly states that the disasters of flood etc is the cause of the downturn and clearly nothing that any government would have been able to prevent.

Criticism when it’s due but paranoid inane dishonest rubbish is not particularly effective.

Not entirely true there.
Ross Garnaut made the suggestion that man made global warming caused the Queensland floods!

And he is, as usual, talking through his hat.

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