aquascoot wrote on Feb 8
th, 2015 at 7:08pm:
St George of the Garden wrote on Feb 8
th, 2015 at 4:19pm:
Wow, deluded:
Quote: think Tony is deeply conflicted. i never thought he would be a good economic manager in the likeness of a Reith or Costello.
It is partly because of Costello we are having so many fiscal and economic problems today.
george, you dont like costello do you.
i think he would have made an awesome PM.
we may have not had Rudd and the ensuing 7 years of disaster for the country had Pete been given the reins.
Costello WAS what karnal sarcasticly calls Tony.
Stable, reliable, a steady hand at the helm.
Costello is a giant of australian politics and a man of rare intellect.
Not getting him as PM will cost this country dearly.
Joe Hockey isnt fit to breath the same air as Peter.
God i miss him and John
Come on, Costello handed down one tough Budget and coasted. He was very fortunate to become Treasurer when the 90s recession was about over then later the mining boom (more a real estate boom.) All he did was spend as much of the boom time revenue in tax cuts as he could. No building infrastructure, no solving of problems/removing economic bottlenecks, boosting productivvity none of that. Feed tax cuts into and talk up a real estate boom, spend the next surplus on more tax cuts.
Where is the cleverness? Too gutless to challenge Howard, what is there to admire?
Howard—spent on pork, buying elections, middleclass welfare. We need a majority Labor govt to undo the damage those two complete idiots and economic illiterates did.
If we had not had such good, strict prudential regulations the GFC would have seen 2-3 banks, including one of the Big Four, fall over.
Open your eyes! Maybe read Swanny’s book, it is well written and densely nailed down with quotes, footnotes and the rest.
I could NEVER read Swans book. I'd rather the missus found a copy of playboy under the bed then that
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