Your comments on Rudd are quite insightful. Keep writing.

I am naive enough to think that there just might be some connection between the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) and the ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme.

The major capitalist economies have temporarily postponed with massive debt bonds the upshot of the scams, toxic loans and other derivative bubbles which have fleeced the world blind.

There is a limit to how much you can reasonably expect working taxpayers to fork out in taxes and other quasi government charges before the thought crosses their mind to “give the other bloke a go” at the next election.

We here in Australia have had “stimulus packages” (debt spending) for breakfast dinner and tea for the past year or more, and now I wonder whether the debt is a tad more than the taxpayer will stand to pick up?

Kevin007 isn’t so silly to upset the electors too much, so why not screw someone for the dough who doesn’t vote?
Why not create a totally new scam, and bring in the investment banks to organize and TRADE in it too?
Like where there is trading there are taxes too.
Now that sounds like we’re getting a show on the road.
Give it over to the Investment Bankers to organize a trading scheme that charges for hot air poured into the atmosphere.

Naturally there must be exceptions – like political promises and cattle farts.
Is that too naive?

Les Kelly,
Launceston.