Dear misanthorpe,

I think you've got me confused with someone else
old chap. I'm not the one putting down the Labor
Party - unless of course that's a typo or you're
being facetious. Check my posting record.
Apology accepted.

Voterland - The way to turn politicians into miracle workers is to constantly communicate our wishes to them,

Thats effectively what Arthur Chresby says in his booklet 'My Will be Done' (see discussion by same name). Many of the contributors were (understandably) critical, citing a long history of studied indifference to constituents on the part of politicians generally. That said, the present public confidence in Australian politics is clearly at an alltime low and dropping steadily, so anything and everything is worth a try. I will certainly be putting Chresbys sample letters to the test ... with three of the laziest and most inept dingbat representatives who ever drew breath, I figure there is nothing to lose. The weak point is enlisting others to follow suit, given the apathy of the sheeple, we'll almost certainly see the long-awaited financial crash before the sheeple decide to extract their collective digits.

Each of us, can find fault in any political party.
My constant niggles at my lifes party are, in defense of that party!
Some one needs to be the driver of change.
But here two at least posters make the claim all are useless, put your own insult and some one has used it.
Not so, never was or will be, I will not bore you with a list,a long one, of Labors emerging greats.
A list could be just as long for the other side, squashed, under Abbotts few.
But watch the post election chin dropping!
Taxs will, and must, rise under any winner.
Labor is less constructive in this area, or has been under Gillard, so after the mandate Australia, and *Labor power brokers* have delivered to Abbott, remember post election who we owe for our pain.
WE should be aware true fools usually young and always stupid fish for us on the net.
Do not forget recent history of true trolls leading to needless deaths, because of brain dead taunting.

Dear Belly

I believe its 'possible' for your ALP to find its way again, however finding rocking-horse droppings / frogs feathers would undoubtedly be more likely. There are simply too many pressure groups fragmenting the party in furtherance of individual objectives, none of which give a rats about the sheeple. Sure there WERE Labor 'greats' back in the never-never, but we are talking ancient history. These days the ALP shares a common evil with the LNP, namely the number of legal leeches. Furthermore, society itself has changed dramatically since the heady days of the Australian Socialist League. Unions in particularly no longer have the position they once had, mind you there is a growing need for 'something' to represent ordinary sheeple against the combined forces of multinationals / big-business / gubmunt etc. I suggest that if grass-roots members regained the upper hand & turfed out all the parasitic hangers-on (especially the ex-lawyers, but also the union heavys and failed academics), the ALP would be well on the way to legitimacy. The mind doth boggle what would the founding fathers would have made of the likes of the Undertaker, the KRudd, the red-headed witch & the dying duck, certainly they would turn in their graves if they were aware those bottom-feeding parasites were in power.

How many countries have a triple A credit rating
and a stable outlook with all four major global
credit agencies - Standard & Poor's, Fitch,
Moodys and Dagong? Only one - Australia.

I guess the government must be doing something right.
At least as far as others are concerned.
A shame that this message doesn't seem to be publicised
in this country.

Lexi - How many countries have a triple A credit rating and a stable outlook with all four major global credit agencies - Standard & Poor's, Fitch, Moodys and Dagong? Only one - Australia.

More good luck than good management. The writing is already on the wall with Queensland suffering one downgrade under the Blighters and another under General Disaster. Given the dying ducks unblemished record of stuffup budgets & the obvious ineptitude of Hockey, its only a matter of time before the credit agencies focus their attention on our federal situation. Quite simply, nobody can continue to squander more money than they receive, yet neither the ALP nor the LNP have come to grips with such a basic concept. Furthermore, if the Queensland experience is any example, the sheeple won't be told the truth about the real state of finances, rather the clowns will duck & weave , providing whatever fanciful excuses deemed necessary to indulge in wool-pulling. Seems Costello is already being groomed to undertake a federal version of the 'independent' inquiry con he perpetuated in Queensland. No doubt he's already received instructions from potential buyers of certain assets preparatory to ensuring those are high on the list of things to be flogged. Note that even the dying duck twigged to Costello antics in Queensland, even if Newman / Seeney / Nicholls managed to convince the CMC that the organization should lose interest. There is no way 'interesting' events like that one can continue indefinitely without repercussions.