People bend to the power of money! Money is the new god, and now we are trapped.

Have a nice day.

Hi Communicat welcome back, missed you the debates we had in the 12 months before the election charged me up.
Nothing new here, you got it very wrong in those months and you again overlook just how much Rudd has already done to fix interest rates.
And just how little Howard did to control them ,in fact how he forced them higher with mad spending.
Have a look at our balance of payments on the day he entered the Prime Ministers office, then on the day he left.
Quick duck back to a thread are you concerned about credit card debt and the sub prime mortgage crisis.
You ME our country needs to know just how bad it is and will be.
And just how lucky we are Kevin Rudd is in power.
Just under three years to his next election win , conservatives must do more than cry wolf it never works.

Belly if Rudd does not backtrack on his promise of tax cuts inflation will go up. Interest rates have only one way to go if tax cuts kick in and that is UP. The last thing we need is tax cuts.
It's a sad rule of economics...if people have money they tend to spend it, especially when advertising tells them they must have this or that and there are expectations beyond means in almost every home.
The union movement is already agitating for higher wages - not intended as a dig at the union movement just stating a fact. That is another inflationary pressure.
Rudd faces internal as well as external pressures and all the RBA will be able to do is continue to increase interest rates - faster than before.

As I said during the campaign Communicat I do not agree with the tax cuts, so you and I think alike here.
I however think Rudd would agree but for one thing, having made a rash promise he intends to keep it.
I just think it nearly had to be a non core promise from Howard, we may never have got it.
I admire Rudd for it but if he spent it on say health education, water, or similar I would be happy.
I would have thought a tax break placed in superannuation accounts might have been less inflationary.
And of long term benefit.
While my earlier reference to another thread miss named it, we , this country, must confront things are not as good as we would like them to be , and may get worse.
I remain convinced Kevin Rudd will not let us down
regards

Belly:
I agree with you there!....If Kevin Rudd cannot or does not change things for the better, then we might as well all not bother voting anymore.

We have seen so many changes across the board since Menzies, but unfortunately not many have been changes for the better ( in the long run!)

Take for example INFLATION!....we are told that we have to have it (as it has always been that way!)....but who gets the benefits from inflation?....big business and the Governments! Who pays the largest slice of the cost?....the consumer!....the little guy at the bottom of the heap!

Another example: Tax Cuts!....again who benefits the most from tax cuts?......the guys with the highest incomes and correspondingly so, the value of the tax cut diminishes progressively down the pyramid
until we reach the base of the pyramid,....the little guy on a subsistance income (usually below the poverty line!) gets exactly zilch!.....How can so called Tax Cuts benefit a person who is not paying Income Tax, but still paying the direct tax (GST) on nearly everything that he has to purchase to survive!

We all need a long awaited boost to our National and moral pride and principles, to try to restore some element of ethics and relative honesty, instead of the current... "Dog eat dog" - "Me, me ,me" and "Money, money, money"!

Kevin Rudd

You owe another sorry for misleading the public pre elections. For lying to the public pre elections. For Sceaming to mislead the public pre elections.

As Shadow Minister for foreign affairs and Trade one may have thought you would have been all over the AWN Enquiry.

Well to be honest you were. Looking searching but not quite finding the real breaking issue to get public to listen to ALP.

At around the same time the public were more interested in the 60Minutes reports regarding the treatment of Australian Farm Animals involved in the barbaric trade of live animal’s exports.

So imagine our surprise when we contacted your office Kevin office to invite you to inform the public that the AWB wheat scandal wasn’t just wheat but the live animal trade and you did nothing.

THE RSPCA certainly had the answer for you Mr. Rudd but you refused to disclose this information to the public.

IMOP you had a duty to inform the public.

It seems Mr. Rudd you were aware of live exports however because your pre election pitch was delivered by Kerry O’Brien said he had more letters from the public about this than anything else.

Indeed the pale office received a call from your Advisor making the sort of noises we wanted to hear. Based on that many of our friends and members voted ALP for the first time.

Your Minister went on to say ALP would ban it if people opinion demanded it.

After the elections you dumped Kerry O’Brien and came out saying you supported live exports.

You have seen no the footage for years. You claim your A Christian. We can all ask this.

RSPCA are backed world wide. Lets all pre judge your next move because personally I have had enough of low life Politians that are too scared to stand up to the Industry.

Not that I am pre judging but - Hey Wouldn’t be ironic if the libs romped back over the live trade.