Belly, there was not a peep about their elections amongst all the
flood of TV & radio blasted out.
Probably, their local newspapers may have coverage but I saw Fox & CNN
and they never mentioned other than the presidential election.
We were hosed with all that guff, which we did not need or want.
My son told me that we get all that coverage because it is free.

Abbott will have to cut back very substantially on all programs.
There is no choice or we will be following along behind Ireland, Greece
Spain etc. I doubt very much that we can fix our debt problem in time.
There seems to be a consensus that world wide the economies are
slowing to an extent driven by the Chinese slowdown and governments
will have to make choices of borrowing more or paying out less in entitlements.
That same consensus suggests that next year will be the crunch year.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/article/1284536--u-s-election-win-for-barack-obama-is-existential-crisis-for-american-right-wing
Bazz thought your level of understanding would be better than Rechtubs.
I knew, at about age 13 how the American electoral system works.
Truth is our media,very often, does not know or need the facts.
Some reporters, too many, will still not know why it surprised them.
However I have set out the truth.
Rechtub, you should swim at the shallow end of the pool?
Rude? yes but remember you, CONSTANTLY challenge my understanding, while evidence clearly points to you not knowing much.
Bazz/Rechtub,our debt is, gee except it as truth PLEASE!
Not good but not back breaking.
Abbott's successor, can, maybe will, cut without it being harsh, and get us back on to near debt free.
Labor can too.
We are in the very good position of not being broke or near it.
The link, will not stay long first one seems gone, is education.
It fills me will warm happiness.
Not, now think first, of the defeat of my natural enemy's the Republicans.
But because of the CRUSHING DEFEAT OF THE EXTREMIST TEA PARTY.
Consider 80% despite party, think and want the same.
Leaving room for those who do not think at all.
IF Republicans are,and they will, to regain the leadership it will be without the screaming red necks minority.
Consider an Australia, without the extremes right and left, greens, now tell me if you dare we would not be better for it.
579, I travel your road, respect you,but your fixed nature make you of not more use than a few on the other side.
Problems are best fixed not swept under the carpet.
And you will not get results than are worth your tangles with rechtub.

Belly, the debt is not as much a problem, as how we got there and, where we started from when labor took the reins ONLY FIVE YEARS AGO, NOT FIVE DECADES AGO.

Now given the mess they have created with the illegals debacle, it's plain outright scary to think where we could be in another five years, as it's pretty obvious they don't have a solution other than to send people to a country where public whipping still goes on and human rights simply dont exist. Surely this is no better than turning the boats around.

579, keep dreaming.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/prime-example-of-how-our-politics-is-polluted/story-e6frezz0-1226513231346
This link is not Labor friendly.
In fact it comes from this mornings Sydney Telegraph, once, hard to believe the Labor Daily.
In no way a balanced paper it sells its owners power and privilege path.
But for that very reason I post it, it shows a future I would embrace, the people choosing the leaders, the death of power brokers.
What a great day that would be!
And too, struggling to get the words out in regard to Abbott, it confirms under such a system, both leaders never would have lead, harsher on Gillard, kinder to Abbott.
But in truth both are better equip to serve Coffee and scones to our leaders at a cafe down the road than the jobs they hold.
Rechtub, it is my fault, I forgot you never heard of the GFC.
How very much better we came out of it,how almost every country too tried to spend their way out of it.
I forgot, briefly, I am debating with a man who wants truth held at bay.
Are you related to 579?
Fear, if you must a Labor victory,but unless it is Rudd who leads, preferably against Abbott, you are creating a monster that exists only in your mind.

Now given the mess they have created, Abbott insisted on Nauru, he got Nauru. So what happened. Nauru was never going to work any more. Nauru is a solution of the past. Malaysia was blocked by the noalition for no other reason than to force an election, along with Slipper and Thomson.
Butch speaks with fork tongue, He doesn't want them here, and doesn't want them where they have public floggings.
Our deficit is small, unemployment is ok 19,000 full time jobs added last month. All we hear about is when someone shuts up shop. Just as many are taken up as what is being lost. Mining robbed industry of employees and these are still being replaced. A lot have tasted mining life and are returning, to an extent the miners are wanting to employ from overseas.
I honestly think your gripes are not there, unless you have state issues.

Ah here we go again, blame it on the GFC.

Now while I accept the GFC may have required some spending, it's the waste that worries me, as had the money been wisely spent, and project after project, or should I say 'brain fart' after brain fart not been a miserable failure we might just have been able to save funding for the likes of health, defense etc.

Labor are economic vandals who have stripped the confidence out of all but the loyal followers and the best they and their beloved followers can come up with is the GFC.

If only those half whit inderpemdents had gone with their heads and not thier hearts, much of these stuff ups WOULD HAVE been avoided.

There's a chance that Rudds mess could have been tidied up, but when Gillard simply took up where he left off, it was down hill from that point on.

History will show this as being the worst ever government.