Thirded...

A slimey grub.

Still forgetting your meetings with Archbishop Pell? What about your ironclad guarantees?

Really now, you must see a doctor.

Can I be a fourth on this grub vote? Even self flagellation for the splendour and rapture whilst reading it would not match the ego of this little toad, oops, Sir Grubalot. ...wake up Australia.

With hospitals in disarray, the medicare system being slowly dismantled, only the very rich will afford to get sick, but then the workers post IR reforms, and those who survive with no medical aid, will be lined up in tents accepting susso packages. Who will care?

Shame they built Docklands, it was a beaut spot to live during the Depression. Many should start picking out their little allotment now. I bags the third tree on he left in the Treasury Gardens next to the gnome...oh hang on is that John Howards spot already marked?

Of course you can be a fourth vote tinkerbell1952.

I cirtainly hope the selfish howard voters are putting away all their savings on interest rates for the whopping medical bills they'll need when their vote eventually abolishes Medicare.

Irrespective of what I might think about the rest of Mr Abbott's article, this economist draws solace from the fact that he thinks that "economists' nagging is important because even the best governments can never rest on their laurels". Alan Stockdale, Treasurer in the Kennett Government, used to say much the same.

Mr Abbott would be doing his Government, and this nation, a service if he could persuade some of his Cabinet colleagues to the same enlightened viewpoint.

Unfortunately, some of Mr Abbott's colleagues instead appear, judging by their words and deeds, to regard "economists' nagging" as tantamount to a breach of the Government's new sedition laws, and cause for all sorts of underhand pressure on their employers to get them to cease their "nagging".

The result is that there is less "nagging" of the Government's performance by economists than perhaps there should be.

I fifth that motion...

C’mon Abbot, how about you join this forum and tell us why it’s alright to create a class of working poor at the same time as having ambitions to destroy our public heath system?

Not good enough to live are we? Only the rich have the right to live do they?

Anyone who knows anything about the Liberal party knows that it’s been John Howard’s dream to abolish Medicare ever since it was introduced. We’re not stupid you know - actually, it appears most of us are.

Ahhh, that's right, the interest rates…derrr.

So plerdsus, no Government can print foreign exchange?? Well, the US has been doing something damned close for decades. Follow this link to Hon. Ron Paul to see what our US allies have been up to. It certainly opened my eyes. http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr021506.htm