Prosperity is relative, and has not been fairly distributed by this Government.

Behind the "bottom line" is the REAL health of a society - rates of homelessness, suicide, bankruptcies, youth unemployment, crime, underemployment, house repossessions and poverty - all increasing in proportion to the social inequalities this Government has created.

Telling somebody that their rising level of personal debt has been offset by the rising value of their assets has risen only works if that person actually has assets to begin with.

When the resources boom inevitably comes to an end, then we will see how economically vulnerable we have become, with manufacturing moved off-shore and local jobs being farmed out to 457 Visa applicants.
Admitting foreign workers to push shopping trolleys around is hardly a skills shortage.

The Politics of Greed works, but not forever.

I am hoping that the Christians have a great influence over the election. It is great that after decades in the wilderness we are at least having some influence. For decades now the humanist have hijacked the education system, promoted abortion, promoted unhealthy lifestyles and taken away parents rights. The systematic destruction of the family unit has created a fatherless generation lost of all hope. The fallacy of evolution and the scaremongering high priest climate changers have fooled many in the name of science.

I know that thousands of Christians will be praying for God to have His rightful place in this nation and the values that made this nation great will be restored. Go Family First, the Christian Democrats and the true Christians in the major parties.

Runner: for all your criticisms of Islam being too closely tied to the State and politics, I can't help but feel to urge christians to be politically partisan is somewhat hypocritical.
Heck, I dare say if Jesus had gone in for politics, he'd probably be a socialist.

Here is an OLO article that rebuts this piece, as well as a general discussion which highlighted some key points that the Howard Brigade don't seem to appreciate.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5424

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=397

The key point that some don't seem to note during the general discussion, is that while we are indeed in blessed economic times due to the resource boom, we are squandering this windfall - little investment in infrastructure and spiralling private debt.

TurnRightThenLeft,

I have no recollection of saying that Islam and State are to closely linked. I have made my views clear that Islam is a false religion. Under the democracy we live in, a person whether a humanist, buddhist or muslim has a right to have their voice heard. It seems to me that many on the left are tolerant of all voices except that of the Christians.

I don't think it would be a good idea for the church to run the country (unlike Islam) but they have a right like anyone else to speak and lobby. George Washington in his farewell speach wrote 'Reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.’

The murder of the unborn, the promotion of immoral lifestyles and the fatherless generation has proven Mr Washington right.

While Green groups lobby on their hobby horses so Christians need to be salt and light as Jesus declared. I don't hear anyone else speaking up for the most vulnerable in society (unborn). I don't hear anyone else speaking up against the lies taught to our children in schools and the destruction of family life by social engineers.

runner, "for God to have His rightful place in this nation " amen to that but I suspect that my idea of "his rightful place" and yours may differ somewhat.

R0bert

People need to realise this economic management arguement is a furphy - our government has about as much control over the economy as it does the weather -

We have had 15 years of unprecedented growth not ten - and neither of the governments had too much to do with it - it remains commodity based and reliant on real growth over seas - we remain a farm a forest and a quarry