Foxy,

Do you still believe in Santa. The stimulus package was a wild over reaction that we will be paying off for a decade.

Most people held onto their staff as they were well aware of the difficulty of replacing them when things came right.

Greece is the prime example of decades of Socialist rule.

Poirot, that's correct. Previous Labor governments set up the reforms, conditions and organisational infrastructure that enabled the mining boom to contribute so effectively to the surplus. Many of them bitterly opposed by the Liberals, but "of course" KEPT by the Liberals (and even expanded slightly) when they were elected.

As I said, even a trained monkey could, and should, have produced a good surplus during the mining boom.

But the Liberal "myths" from the Party faithful continue on of course. It's good for a laugh. It shows why they ended up in opposition and why Mr Howard was not just kicked out of the top job but kicked out of parliament altogether. The Liberals are sore losers. They believe they were born to rule.

Poirot, the last PM who refused to change was in fact Fraser. Howard
as treasurer, nearly resigned his job because of that. Keating
could finally make the long overdue changes. Floating of the A $,
deregulation of the banks, selling off Qantas and the CBA, the
start of the reduction of tariffs, the end of centralised wage
fixing and move to enterprise bargaining. But when he left,
Australia still had a major Govt debt and budget deficit.

Costello made major changes to the tax system, paid off Govt debt,
made Australia more business friendly by clamping down on militant
unions, deregulated the labour market to some degree, reduced tariffs
even further, got rid of a whole lot of small taxes with the GST,
continued with the reduction in tariffs.

Above all, he fought Howard and others all the way, when they tried
to put their hands in the cookie jar, for he felt more tax money
should be returned to taxpayers. The last of those tax returns will
just hit your wage packet on July 1, if you are on wages.

On that one, Swan had little choice but to promise what Costello
had set up.

Costello also reorganised the regulation of banks by appointing
a tough regulator, which got the banks through the GFC in such
great condition.

Under Costello interst rates were low, so was unemployment, as
both small and large businesses were investing, for Govt gave
them the confidence and conditions to do so.

Mr Swan was ready to send business down the tube and it took voter
unrest and the sacking of a PM, for the Govt to see reason. Mr
Swan now blows with a new wind, but he hardly has talent.

Dear Foxy
You know by now that I only throw mud when enough has been thrown at me.

Now as for 'what am I', simple, as always I am a swinging voter, but, above all else, I am 'risk taker' and I will vote for who places the least amount of risk in what I do, that being, running a small business.

Now it's easy for those who work for someone to critisize their every move, but, remember this, for every worker in a small business, someone has taken a risk to give them that job.

Now rather than whinge about 'workers rights', how about you lot spare a thought for our 'risk takers', because, without them, you would be out there trying to find work in an extreemly competetive workforce, whereby, perhaps the top 50% would have a job and the rest would starve.

Think about this the next time you let loose on someone who actually puts thier house on the line to provide jobs for the masses.

Of cause you can all have a go yourselves, but hey, very few of you have the guts to have a go and have this attitude that having a job is a god given right, rather than the privilage that it is.

Now as for you'Krud cronies' I don't really think you realise just how close your DH leader came to ruining this country with his mining tax fiasco.

Now as for Mdam PM, well, in just a week, she has upset the gays, upset the bible bashers and upset all but the multi national miners, of which, I doubt any of them vote here anyway.

So who does that leave?

Boy the truth hurts on this site, hey!