Oh and Hasbeen...

Grow up yourself, mate.

: )

Hi Producer,

Like I said << I’m fully aware that this post will not be “read” by you, but it will be emotionally “felt”. Accordingly you will not be able to either understand it or respond to it, other than being the “snot” to which we referred earlier.>>

Hello Snot, and your response is?

You don’t read and you can’t comprehend,

Next!

Producer,

You have omitted to point out that the figure dropped to 45.5% only after Mr. Rudd appeared briefly back on the scene. It mattered not that the man was toxic for his own party and the rest of this nation. It took just lots of projecting himself as 'one of the boys', and plenty of smiling t.v. exposure to stop the landslide victory which was projected for the Liberal party - despite their leaders lack of charisma.
How easy it was to make the voters fall under that spell, and forget the disasters this man and JG led us all into. Now Abbott has to try and balance the huge budget deficit this self serving pair left us, and is being castigated for trying to redress the deficit he inherited.
This day of reckoning had to come, and of course we will feel the pain. After all it is our money they threw away, and somehow measures must be taken to try and bring us back into balance, and minimising the pain at the same time - a herculean task. Surely, anyone with any commonsense should realise we were given a very costly fool's paradise for too long.
To blame the present government for this is ridiculous. Now that the freebies have reduced the whining begins. Maybe some policy support would prove more advantageous for this nation than picking on personalities - so petty and so trivial!

Lol!, worldwatcher...people like you fall for Hockey's spiel hook, line and sinker.

I bet you buy his pained expressions, and his shoutiness too.

He said not long after becoming Treasure, "We're in good shape. The credit rating is what matters."

He said that.

In the wake of the GFC, one of the lowest debt to GDP ratio's of developed countries, an AAA credit rating, low interest rates, relatively low unemployment, etc..

...and Hockey puts on a pantomime for people like you, who actually think this fake knows what he's on about.

I haven't read too many economists lately who aren't quietly smirking at Hockey's two bit antics.

This from the IMF::

Australia has the dubious honour of having the fastest budget deterioration of 29 advanced economies tracked by the IMF, according to the AFR this morning.

In six months

Yup - he's a rip-snorter, isn't he....

Poirot

You state that Peta Credlin is Abbott's puppeteer.
Without being privy to all the minister's meetings, one has to wonder how you can make these assertations with such authority.
Without you having been in any of these meetings, this could be construed as just a virulent character assassination of a woman doing as good a job as a man could do in her position.
In America the chief of staff is sometimes referred to as the Power behind the Throne, and yes it is a powerful position which a politically savvy woman can fulfil equally as well as a man, and she certainly has the credentials for this position.
I therefore conclude that your sexist statement has no merit in reality.

Poirot,

There you go again! Presuming to know now how other people think.

My dear Poirot, you have absolutely no idea how to debate logically, and how the heck did you manage to bring Joe Hockey into it as well?

Sorry, I have no wish to enter into hysterical ranting with you. When you can enter into an adult reasoning dialogue, I'll be happy to debate with you.