Dear Lexi,
Well said my good friend, the 'fat cat achieving' Liberals only care about looking after the wealthy. Whilst the Labor Government spends a lot of money so that everybody can have a fair go.
But from this post forward, I will not be posting on any political issues., people are too one-eyed about their own Party, and forget the rest of them who suffer because of it, needless to say I am talking about the Abbott Opp.
Cheers,
will talk on another thread my friend.
NSB
PS It would be nice if people can view politics through plain glasses, if we are honest, we should all recognise good/bad policies when they are introduced, no one party is perfect, btw I don't vote for either Major Parties.

Lexi,

Read before you post. The relaxation of the banking rules was done by Clinton. The legacy of huge public debt in Europe was almost exclusively thanks to the socialist governments.

Lexi/NSB I admire you both.
But feel the need to defend myself, I have lived for my party from my mid teen years.
Before that was left of it, my dad would kill me if he knew.
Why?
Not party can serve all our needs.
But Labor serves mine best.
I think it is my job, to Serve my party.
Not all do,some serve only them selves.
Lexi as a well educated Librarian, you would understand time changes everything.
Just one hundred years ago your church was the strongest in the world, 50 years ago it controlled the ALP.
My statements against part of my party and part of its policy's and the delivery of then,is in the service of my party.
I contend no one can charge me, with one eyed blindness, I know, like it or not, good comes from conservatives too.
Do not look to the worst you see here, look at RObert and others who are fixed conservatives.
My thought, Labor is gone,are ones the party shares.
We will get our things in line, be rewarded by even conservatives agreeing we got it right in ten years but we are not all fixed and blind.
I am full of hope in my party its future is assured.

Sorry yabby I needed to say that.

Still think, given the air time ,you and I could tell Australia the truth, do some truly think farmers and stock sellers are so stupid they export live cattle only to serve the interests of Muslim country's.
Watch any episode of the anti whaling TV show see the bottles hurled at the whalers.
Yes I want the lie to stop saying it is for science.
Do we care that in twenty years whale numbers will be near the highest they ever have been.
See the break and enter to medical research centers filmed.
Who understands the matter of paying two is beyond dispute, they have been interviewed.
16 year old kid, my age up to 18, I worked briefly in the Hombush Abattoirs in Sydney.
For some reason the union, you had to be in it, saved the job of a slicer who had been sacked 4 times.
It was suspected he spat in export boxes of meat, he did too.
Last time me, just out of my Comrade days, two other youths got taken out the back and schooled.
To lie, to save his job, it is currency in this union, I could not say, and be sure I was not lying, this union is not funding Lyn White.
Unions are not all like that,but this one is!

SM,

I do read before I post as well as do my
research. How about you doing the same.
As for the GFC - you need to find out
more about the financial crisis and the problems
that the US has been having for decades. As
for Europe - different story again. This
website may help you get a grasp on some of
the facts:

http://newmatilda.com.au/2011/08/10/gfc-back-and-its-here-stay

Of course you can always brush it all aside as being
a "....." blog (fill in your own word). That would
be true to form.

Well said Belly. I to worked briefly in an Abattoirs, Just outside of Bowen. (The Communist Centre of Australia.) I was just 17. I was put in the Freezers & Paid adult wages accordingly. (you had to be 21 to work in the Freezers.) With wages at 14 Pound a week.($28) @ 4 nights & an Saturday or Sunday overtime times were good. Sometimes 30+ Pound a week. Then I ran into a problem with the Union. I wanted to pay my Union Dues but, and here's the problem. The "Donation to the Communist Party was on the free end. I was fronted to a Court for refusal to pay my Dues. So I placed the money down in front of the President, Secretary & Treasurer, They accepted it, but said I was still short the 10 bob Donation to the Communist Party. I said, no, that's a donation, as it's a donation, I have the right not to donate, if I don't want too.They were in a dilimmea as there was only 3 weeks left to the end of the season & not enough workers had had an "accident" so they good get Compo while they were off till the start of the next season. They accepted the money & told me, not to come back, & that I was Black listed from every Meatworks in Australia. I did tell them that was Ok as I had intended too join the Army & kill Communists. They were not impressed with that. They let me stay on until the end of the season. They couldn't get me sacked as I had not broken any Company rules. Great introduction, at 17, into the real world of Politics.
Cont.