John Smith
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warrigal wrote on May 20 th, 2013 at 7:54am: John Smith wrote on May 19 th, 2013 at 9:22pm: longweekend58 wrote on May 19 th, 2013 at 8:32pm: John Smith wrote on May 19 th, 2013 at 6:33pm: Global economic conditions are vastly different today to what they were during Howards years. Howard had the best possible conditions in recent history, whereas today, we have some of the worst conditions since the great depression. Anyone who thinks the libs are going to come in and bring us into surplus alla Costello style is an idiot who is going to be mightilly dissapointed in about 3 years time. (hi progs)
All Abbott is going to do, if he wins office, is drive us into recession. However, that in itself won't be a bad thing, it at least means I won't have to hear the libs going on for the next 20 yrs about how they are the greatest economic managers. Libs have always had one modus operandi ... cut spending on the public service, sell everything, and cut services ... and yet despite they having used the same rule book since inception, Costello is the only time they've ever managed a surplus ... that should tell you one thing, it wasn't the libs rules that bought about a surplus, but more the fact that they got in during a time the whole world is booming. yes, howard had better global conditions. nobody is ignoring it. However in these good times Howard made an impressive improvement in our fiscal position ie he saved for a rainy day. In more difficult times labor have done an utterly crap job. massive debt, massive deficit, higher unemployment. it hardly stands up as an impressive record. A truly impressive outcome would be if the economy was growing stronger and stronger, unemployment was still down and our debt was at a low level. Labo have done a lousy job in poor circumstances. Howard made an impresivce improvement into our financial position by selling whatever he could get his hands on . Labor has had steady growth throughout a time when just about all our trading partners hit a wall. Our economy is stronger and unemployment is down. The only thing you have is the debt argument but thats thats just blowing smoke. Abbotts own plans at the last elections would have seen us in even more debt. Admit it longloser, despite all the rhetoric, labor has done alright. Sure, they could have done better, but that can be said about anyone. Where labor has rally struggled is in their ability to sell an idea .... absolutely woeful, I wonder how much of that was because of the hung parliament and the fact that they were forced to have to water down their ideas to get anything to happen .. it's always hard to sell someone else's policy. Well Labor better is Not good enough JOHN Put the country into more debt by giving more handouts to the greedy in this country. just more rhetoric warrigal ... does the liberal party website have all these saying listed somewhere so you can all copy paste them when ever you want? What more handouts? nothing more wasteful than some of Howards handouts but you weren't concerned about them. The fact that he was wasting money we had doesn't make it any less wasteful. Sure labor has got some things wrong, but which government hasn't?
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