Whoops Poirot, everything from;
-> In my posts I detail how forced hu <-
to the end was in someoneelse's article in another thread.

I have not a clue what happened there.
So your reply was not really to me.

Well my knickname for you was the Labour office computer because your
responses were so predictable, and always rather hard on poor Tony.
You seemed to have dictionary file of putdown names.

All not really meant in a unfriendly way but to try and put some
humour into it all at your expense.

"Whoops Poirot, everything from;
-> In my posts I detail how forced hu <-
to the end was in someoneelse's article in another thread.

I have not a clue what happened there.
So your reply was not really to me."

Lol!...Bazz

Bit of a shame really - I thought we agreed on something : )

Poirot,

Forgetting of course that labor increased unemployment from 4% to 5.8% with projections of it hitting 6.3 to 6.5% in 2014, and before leaving office legislated some of the biggest unfunded spending bills in history and refused to let the coalition roll any back. Plus the 20 000 job strangling regulations that the morons in Labor put in place.

The RBA has just acknowledged that the economy is starting to recover. It takes a while to undo the damage labor did.

There is a reason why well intentioned idiots such as Corbyn are kept in a corner.

SM,

"The RBA has just acknowledged that the economy is starting to recover. It takes a while to undo the damage labor did."

Lol!....any "recovery" will be in response to the fulsome dousing of the economy that began upon the LNP taking control of it.

Still no explanation for the extra $129 billion Eleventy Joe added to debt in just 2 years......

Poirot,

This is coming from a supporter of the party that raped the economy. Fortunately, very few voters believe that Labor is fiscally competent, which is why they got tossed out.

As for why the deficit has increased:
1 Australia's biggest mining boom from 2010 to 2013 has collapsed,
2 Labor before leaving office introduced massive unfunded spending programs in the order of $20bn p.a.
3 Labor's debt was accumulating interest >$12bn p.a.
4 Even when it was clear that Labor's costings were wildly off, Labor and the greens blocked just about every savings measure.

In an advanced western country every citizen should have access to an adequate education, adequate medical care and an adequate diet. To do that taxes have to be raised to a level to provide those benefits. It can be done. The Scandinavian countries have done it.

In Australia neither party is willing to do it. Labor tries to provide those benefits without raising taxes to a level adequate to pay for them. When the Libs get into power they scale back the benefits. Malcolm Turnbull is considering increasing the GST to 15%. This is a regressive tax which hits most heavily on the poor.

To provide the benefits appropriate for an advanced and just society the fairest way would be to eliminate the GST and increase a graduated income tax to a level high enough to pay the cost. Until this is done Labor in power will continue to run up deficits, and the Libs in power will scale back benefits or increase the GST to pay for the deficits.