Dear Shadow Minister,

You mentioned two possibilities - I see more: one is to just continue acquiring debt regardless without passing a law. I don't think the AFP is going to arrest anyone for insisting on paying their salaries.

The best outcome of course, is to close down immediately a large number of government departments and never open them again, also selling their office-buildings to cover the existing debt.

Aren't they ashamed to be in debt?

Just like any of us should do when we don't have money, the government should give an example and sell their parliament house, conducting their meetings in some local community hall, using folding chairs if they can afford, or otherwise sitting on the floor.

Why doesn't labor just deny everything.

Haha...threads going well so far, you reckon, SM?

Dear Shadow Minister,

It's a bit of a stretch even for you to claim
that Labor and the Greens copy the
American Tea Party. It will never happen in this
country - we are not America - (despite what John
Howard and his ilk may want us to believe). And
our Political Parties, especially Labor and the Greens
will never hold our Government to ransom, as the Tea
Party did in the US. Labor has made that quite clear
all that is being asked of the government is that they
produce the paperwork as to why they need to raise the
debt ceiling. Which is fair enough. Joe Hockey has the
paperwork - and all that is being asked that he give
Parliament the reasons for what the government wants
done. However with the current avoidance of answering
questions by the government and all the secrecy involved
it looks like its far easier to be creative and blame
the US "Tea Party," rather than come up with the paperwork
in Parliament which is all that's being asked.

I'm simply surprised that you Sir, are buying into this
crap. And you supposedly an inteliigent man and a self-
professed professional and "thinker." How about thinking for
yourself for a change - instead of repeating the Party mantra?
You remain wedded to the carefully rehearsed, simplistic
rhetoric - which Mr Abbott and his colleagues repeat
ad infinitum. Don't insult our intelligence.

Oh gee SM, I sure hope Tony doesn't last 3 years, let alone 9!

According to my lifelong Liberal supporter, Catholic, middle-class wise old Mum, it is good for all 'us' middle class and big business people to have the Liberals back in power.

But...Tony is proving to be the bumbling, embarrassing orator that I always predicted, and having him at the helm for longer than 3 years would be excruciating!
Bring back Malcolm!

Suse,

Our very good friends are Catholic, life long Liberal supporters who voted for and support LNP.

They toddle off to church every week and bring me extracts about human rights abuses, etc.

I asked one of them the other day about something pertaining to human rights and this govt.

He answered that he didn't really care what was going on because all he was interested in was in the "other mob" being voted out.

Go figure?

This fascist outfit is giving Liberal politics in this country a bad name...IMO