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K-Dudd: the heartless wonder : Comments

By Jason Whittaker, published 6/11/2009

Kevin Rudd - Howard-lite as he was dubbed during the election. If anything it’s a fairly flawless reproduction.

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You have got a funny idea of a socialist.
Particular things are best left in govt; hands.
Any one that is finding .5% rise in interest rates makes things hard for them should not have been granted a loan in the first place.
You don't have to be a professor to work out rates are going to rise and fall from time to time.
You will just have to downsize your rediculous amount of squares.
I need rates to rise more yet, some of us have to live off our interest
you know.
Posted by Desmond, Saturday, 7 November 2009 2:25:58 PM
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Only a rusted on Labor life-member would think that Rudd is not our worst Prime Minister yet. I agree with Democritus and others. The man is a dicator and control freak.

He is starting to really stink with his 'Indonesian Solution' to illegals. He was sooooo sure, in his arrogance, that he had fixed up a deal with the Indonesian President. Now he is looking like a real fool; it's not going to work.

We are now hearing about 'contingency plans'. My money says that there is only one 'plan' - to cringe in the face of Indonesian resistance (the don't bother with the internationl law of the sea) and bring the illegals to Christmas Island and then to the mainland.
Posted by Leigh, Saturday, 7 November 2009 2:32:43 PM
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rehctub,

Actually Telstra was sold to continue finance Commonwealth Pensions (ie Those of the Politicians and the remnants of the Commonwealth Public Service still under the Commonwealth Super Scheme - not the Aged Pension as some would believe.)

This funding shortfall was due to Costello deliberately not funding it annually for several years to make to Budget bottom lines look better.

Telstra was certainly not the only department sold. Some were privatised but most were simply sold off to private corporations.

As for debt, Howard - like most Western governments - was blindly following the (now discredited) Greenspan doctrine of keeping corporate profits high by putting downward pressure on wages and flooding the economy with cheap credit to make up the difference, then convincing everybody that they were somehow suddenly wealthier because the price of Real Estate had gone up and interest rates would always be low as long as he was kept in power.

Despite the recent rises, they are still lower than they were a couple of years ago.
Anybody who overcommits on the assumption that interest rates would never ever go up deserves what they get.
Posted by wobbles, Saturday, 7 November 2009 7:38:39 PM
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You know wobbles, this old 'howard and low wages thing' is well past it's use by date.

Skilled labour was fetching record pay rates under the howard government, and you know it. Unskilled may well have suffered, but then, your alternative is to up the pay rates for the low skilled and watch the major employer of 'low skilled workers', our manufacturing industries, go off shore.

You know, you geniusses are so hell bent on looking after the bottom third that the top third, the potential employers of these people will still make their huge profits, only, they will be made 'off shore' and attract 'zero taxes' back home, which by the way, is the funding pool used to provide the bottom half with a decent standard of living.

Well done mate, take a bow!
Posted by rehctub, Sunday, 8 November 2009 9:09:04 AM
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To quote Whittaker: "No vision. No conviction. No heart.

"No hope."

May I add: No surprise
Posted by Darron C, Sunday, 8 November 2009 12:07:38 PM
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rehctub,
Real wages DID fall under Howard's Workchoices, the voters agreed and the following Fair Pay Commission judgements reinforced that fact.

Furthermore and despite Howards's alleged largesse toward the big end of town, employers continued to go off-shore in droves - so much for them sticking around to provide the "bottom third" with a decent standard of living.

Trickle-down economics has been tried before and has failed every time.

Profit before people.
Posted by wobbles, Monday, 9 November 2009 1:23:40 AM
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