JamesH,

"...at least Howard added animation to his lying." You must be referring to Frankie H?

Ha!
liberal fanboy shows just how hypocritical they are.
"breathtakingly cynical" describes Liberal philosophy perfectly.

Howard was asleep at the economic wheel, having preferred to engage in culture wars and propping up last centuries industries. He had a golden opportunity to invest in the future, but instead plumped up his asset values, his family businesses and his mates industries.

He sat and watched the credit crisis come for 2-3 years and did nothing. He did nothing for infrastructure, he did nothing for foreign relations, he stopped many decades of real-world improvement in health, education, equality dead in its tracks and sent us on a regressive path.

Rudd may not be perfect (who is), but to call him "breathtakingly cynical" coming out of the Howard years is just silly.
Fanboys shouldn't try and write "analysis" of documents they haven't read yet!

James H “Neo-ruddite or gero-ruddite maybe even gero-laborism.”

May I suggest “Kruddonomics”

And note something Margaret Thatcher said

"Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited."

because, according to rumours to the chief advisor for the innovatively bankrupt

Kruddonomics is merely the 2008 run-out model of the 1991 version of

“Keatingomics”,

A system which defines the fiscal agenda to be one of ensuring the power of government is assured through the numbing of the electorate, with faux-horror crisis, to the point they are so stupefied, impoverished and bereft of personal options, they are therefore sufficiently malliable to follow the duck call of a socialists band of duck hunters, up to the guns and oblivion.

It is a particularly destructive system and requires a cyclical reversal of strategies (called change to coalition) to rebuild the confidence and life style of the populus, before a sufficient number of wallies decide to retry the "socialist" path....

but only because they are all too young to remember the last recession

SusanP,

I can't speak for Billie of course, but for me there was no case of mistaken identity. I hear the sub-text, however.

Col Rouge,

I can see why Kevin 07 doesn't appeal after your love affair with the Iron Maiden. No whips and spurs with gentle Kev.

I hear that repeating your self and the Iron Maiden's anecdotes is a sign of geriatric slippage. At least you're too young to remember the last recession.

The complete nitwit and his fans.

Debating(?) ar article that has yet to be published. Just brilliant.

No chance of waiting to see whatever it says huh? Nope, just charge in, get yer dumb old flags out, left and right, and wave them at each other from behind your keyboards.

What a pathetic gathering of fools. The author leads by a long way. Next he'll be critisicing things he has predicted from reading Revelations. Or has he started already? I predict that he has. My predictions are safe. I look back to see what to predict.

My understanding of the tipping point for this financial crisis.

The foundation was laid with a grand housing plan, in the US for low income earners (socialism) this was exploited by the capitalists to increase their wealth,

Now if the low income earners did not have the interest rates they were paying for their housing loans, raised. This would not have happened.

Now capitalists greed built a stack of cards which came tumbling down, rather spectacularly.

I notice the the Labor party is made up of socialist-capitalists.

In the past neither have the Labor or Liberal parties been good for public services. One would expect State Labor parties to pay for public services first before doing deals for their mates.

So maybe we have a neo-socio-capitalist Labor.