Thread: Good bye Johny!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought he'd already had a few too many tonight. Scares me to think of him representing our nation in an overseas context. Reminds me of a used car salesman.

Originally Posted by Jeff

I hope I can still afford to drive my Landy with 17% interest rates, let's hope it doesn't get back to that.

Labor seems an uneasy mix of your old school union lefties and the new green lefties and we don't know which way it will fall.

Jeff

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mmmmm l wouldn't be worried about 17% interest rates, if we had kept howard in, interest rates would be the least of your worries, when u couldn't even get into a hospital with out forking out money for treatment, petrol will never go down, fresh fruit and veg would be a lux and your kids wouldn't even be able to go to school unless u paid, so we had to stop the coalition from steering us head long into a user pays, rich get richer and poor get poorer american style economy thats my view on it anyway

cheers

Originally Posted by cucinadio

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mmmmm l wouldn't be worried about 17% interest rates, if we had kept howard in, interest rates would be the least of your worries, when u couldn't even get into a hospital with out forking out money for treatment, petrol will never go down, fresh fruit and veg would be a lux and your kids wouldn't even be able to go to school unless u paid, so we had to stop the coalition from steering us head long into a user pays, rich get richer and poor get poorer american style economy thats my view on it anyway

cheers

Thats probablly not far of the mark.
However I think we are headed that way regardless of who is in government. I would give up the tax cuts if they would fix the health and education systems. Look at NSW, they are already doing with your roads, tunnels etc. People in NSW should just refuse to pay tolls and this would stuff them. This is why we pay tax.

Hmmmm, seems my call wasn't to far off...

Lets hope they don't muck it up.

Looking back so many people are paranoid about change, it isn't always a bad thing. Lets hope it's one of them times.

Originally Posted by twitchy

Hmmmm, seems my call wasn't to far off...

Lets hope they don't muck it up.

Looking back so many people are paranoid about change, it isn't always a bad thing. Lets hope it's one of them times.

This is my prediction and thankyou to those who will cause it!

Welcome to the start of the 2008 depression, and Krudd will no doubt say it was Howards fault as we lived too well before.

By this time next year, the idiots who voted him in, will be sorry they did. International confidence in Australia will have gone.

The dollar will be worth 50 cents to the USD. We will be buying petrol at twice the price and it will retail at $2.50 to $3.00 a litre. The cost will flow on from the primary producers, trucking companies, which in turn will have a dramaic effect on food prices. The cost of living will be at least 50% higher.

People with high mortgage payments will loose their homes, wages will not rise. If they do many business will close down, unemployment will be the highest ever, and Rudd will be unable to fullfill 90% of his promises.

Don't believe me?
Watch the dollar fall and see what happens.

Hi there all

I would love to re-kindle this forum discussion in a couple of years - and really see what happens (time will tell).

I am happy & proud to say I am howard/liberal supporter - but if the majority want LABOR I am happy to give it a go. I just hope the labor party have learnt from there past mistakes and keep this country "Australia" safe and prosperous for the future generation.

But I need to say - AWA's are here to stay in the Mining Industry.

All the best

Wayne

Originally Posted by skidmark77

I second that on krudd
Is it just me or do you get that creepy rock spider feeling when he talks???

Funny you should mention that.

Originally Posted by Jeff

I hope I can still afford to drive my Landy with 17% interest rates, let's hope it doesn't get back to that.

Labor seems an uneasy mix of your old school union lefties and the new green lefties and we don't know which way it will fall.

Jeff

interest rates would continue to climb regardless of who claimed victory.

They were both spending great gobs of money trying to buy votes and the Reserve Bank has only one avenue then to control inflation and that's keep upping interest rates.

BTW, waaaay back when John Winston Howard was Treasurer under Fraser housing loans were government capped at 13.8% but the cash rate was 22%, far higher than it got during Keating's reign as treasurer.
We also must acknowledge that a lot of Costello's economic management was actually reaping the benefit of Keatings massive reforms as treasurer (Disclaimer. I still can't stand P Keating as an individual, and I've never voted Labor in my life)

Labor won't be able to do too much for the first eight months or so of Parliament anyway as they face a hostile Senate.

Also, economy wise we really are at the mercy of overseas markets. There was a chilling report a couple of days ago in the business section of the SMH where a prominent economist is predicting hyperinflation in China and India as they hit the wall in skilled labour which he says will encourage a huge wage/inflation spiral which will then be exported to the rest of the world.
Our economy is so small we would have no chance of weathering it.