Dear Individual,

Come off it. You can't be serious.

Take a look at what the polls are currently
saying about Mr Abbott and his government.
Did you miss the Marches in March of this year
(all on the news). Where tens of thousands of
people from all walks of life - mothers,
fathers, young and old, were marching to show
their dissatisfaction with Mr Abbott and Co.

And you talk of his competence. Get real.
Even members of his own party are starting to
speak up.

You need to take your blinkers off.

Considering the dire circumstance, according to Hockey, that the government finances are supposedly in, can anyone believe anything other than Hockey and Abbott are lying about the economy and the "state" Labor supposedly left it in. Considering they are about to commit $12 billion for some new "toys for the boys".

Foxy,
My blinkers are off, are your rose-coloured glasses ?

Poirot,
The diabolically clever retort that your opponent is (wait for it) "Stupid"

let's be brutally honest here, what else could I have said, you cornered me so much with your retorts that I literally had no other term to draw from the english language.

It was said all over the place to no end that Rudd/Gillard ran the country into such a fiscal mess that it'll take decades just to catch up let alone show savings.
I do wish though that public service salaries would be frozen for at least 10 years & politicians salaries cut back to the previous level.

Dear Individual,

What do rose-coloured glasses have to do with
opinion polls and marches by voters against
the current PM and his government?

Here's last years' Four Corners video and transcript of the examination of the F-35 fighter jets.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/02/18/3690317.htm

A few excerpts:

"It's been billed as the smartest jet fighter on the planet...But after a decade of intensive development, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is over budget, a long way behind schedule and described by one expert as "big, fat and draggy"."

"PIERRE SPREY, FORMER PENTAGON ANALYST: Every aspect of that airplane is basically a failure waiting to happen."

"The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could be the granddaddy debacle of them all. John Howard as Prime Minister signed Australia up to the F-35 development program in a secret deal with the American manufacturer Lockheed Martin in a Washington hotel ten years ago.

On paper, the plane must have seemed irresistible. The plan was to buy 100 of them. Delivery was due to start flowing just about now.

In reality, cost and delivery have blown out dramatically and credible experts believe the plane will never do what its makers promised.

In Washington, doubts have been raised about the future of the whole project."

"ANDREW FOWLER: But there's little trust for the world's most expensive and controversial military program from a host of critics around the globe.

PIERRE SPREY, FORMER PENTAGON ANALYST: So we have an airplane that can't turn to escape fighters, can't turn to escape missiles, sluggish in acceleration because it's so big and fat and draggy and doesn't have enough motor for the weight.

My prediction is the airplane will become such an embarrassment that it will be cancelled before 500 airplanes are built."

"You'd never know it out here but the plane is riddled with bugs. It's not flying supersonic, its computers are operating at nowhere near full capacity, and it's restricted on how tightly it can turn because of g-force pressures.

PIERRE SPREY: We haven't even scratched the surface of the failures because we've done all the easy flight testing so far. The hard flight testing, you know, that's all in front of us, that hasn't been done yet."

P-76 of planes?

I don't know but just maybe it would of been an idea to get 2-3 of our top pilot that will be flying these things to take them for a test drive and see what they think..Just an idea