Hassy' we should all have bought tons of gold when a few years ago it was around $400 an ounce. How we could have lorded it over your stupid lefties who didn't.

But seriously in this country both the lefties and the righties, politicaly speaking, make a pretense of serving the interests of all voters which by any count they do not. Since the Hawke, Keating and Howard complicity in deregulating and dismantling of this countries control mechanisms 40 years ago subsequent governments have been powerless to exert any really effective control over the direction of our economic affairs. Global Corporate capitalism has had a field day exploiting the cost differentials between the poor countries and the once rich countries to the enormous profit of the so called 1%. Corporations take the most efficient route to profit and do absolutely nothing to build and broaden the spending power of people in either the poor or the rich countries.

No government will change this because largely they feed from the same trough. Lefties or righties can talk it up about job creation and fool a large part of the population but the simple fact is that since deregulation in Australia our manufacturing base has been dcimated. We import the great bulk of consumer goods and no longer use our own labour to produce our own wealth. Much of our population is under-employed and our external debt continues to grow. Where to now?
Den 71

You teabaggers are off the planet. The ones pushing this bank deposits tax are the IMF, the World bank and the European central bank. To call them lefty pinko criminals is just ludicrous. Worse than ludicrous it is a LIE. Criminals they may be but they are most definitely not from the left of politics.

mikk while I like the way you think, and agree, the IMF said it should not happen, I think.
In fact it was not a lefty thing it is as you say, but I think it was those within the EU who put the rat bag thing up not an international group, hope so at least.