rehctub,

I doubt if you'll hear from Stephen at the moment - he's one of Australia's top economists...and there's an election happening.

Here's his blog.

http://thekouk.com/

You won't agree with most of it.

...but then, he's an economist and you're a butcher.

P,

SK is one of many top economists in the country. He is also very left whinge, and has been caught out cherry picking information to prove a left whinge point.

No wonder Krudd and Juliar used him to help Kouk the books.

SM,

Still...rehctub seems to complain when I supply figures straight from Morrison.

I once tweeted them attributing them to Koukoulas - who then tweeted me he couldn't take attribution because they were actually Morrison's figures.

The butcher doesn't like those figures.

Poirot, Saul Eslake is also one of our top economists, and when I email him, which I have several times about the Negative gearing, he replies. Of cause he and I hold deferent views on that, but at least he replies. As for your guy, surely a simple 'out of office reply' would be better than no reply at all, especially if he is tied up with the election.

So back to figures. Labor stated with $20 billion in the bank and ZERO DEBT, meaning no interest payments and, they had to care for TWO illegals in detention.

So, we know the GFC cost them $40 billion, so that accounts for $20 of the billions they borrowed, but what did they do with the rest?

Remember, they started with $20 billion and no debt, plus two illegals. They finished with hundreds of billions of debt, and left TWO THOUSAND in detention for Abbott to ONE, care for, TWO, deal with and THREE, stop the boats, which he did.

So to summarise, Abbott paid the interest on Labors debt, he paid to care for, deal with, and stop new arrivals which cost $? billions.

So, you can either come clean with the real figures, or you can make a statement like David F, back yourself into a corner, then take your bat and ball and run.

The choice is yours.

rehctub,

All your silly post does is confirm for me the reason you chose to be a butcher and not an economist.

It's not a matter of backing oneself into a corner or taking one's bat and ball and running - it's about how much drivel does one endure before deciding to end the conversation.

You do like to trumpet your ignorance far and wide on this forum, all the while taking absolutely no notice of argument or facts counter to your own constructions.

After a while, talking to you is a bit like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer....

I feels so good when you stop.

Poirot, you win, I will do the research myself. We will get to the bottom of this somehow.

While at no point have I said you are wrong, I will certainly admit I am wrong if proven to be, so lets see shall we.