An now for the "Good News" - Just in time for Xmas

OK Hands up - how many of you voted for the Labor Party and the Greens in the last election? Are you happy with your choice?

You had better be - because the government that just left (exit stage right) knew what it was doing when it lost the elections.

Just look at the news today:

1. Worst balance of Trade figures in years;
2. Companies making a loss for the first time in a decade;
3. Petrol Prices through the roof;
4. The New PM (Rudd) announces that it looks like we are actually going to have a 1% blow out on the Kyoto Protocol targets which means that we will incur a 30% penalty if Rudd actually signs up to the treaty on behalf of Australia and THAT means that we will have even higher prices on a whole range of things!
5. The underlying interest rate is beyond the comfort level of the Reserve Bank which means that we can expect another rate rise in February and that means more mortgage foreclosures etc etc;
6. The public services can expect to have a 2% 'efficiency dividend taken off them which means that they will have to either fire some people, or more likely not take more people on to work for them as they have to pay higher than normal wages - thanks to the AWA deals they have signed up with staff and thanks to the fact that they can't get out of them until they expire. This means that those left in the public services will have to work harder for less.
   

In essence what we have is a demonstration that the Howard government KNEW that things were going to heck in a hand basket and so did as badly as possible in the polls so that they could BLAME the incoming government for all of the mess that they have left behind!

No doubt this will mean that as we move into another cycle of economic downturn and things get from bad to worse they will be able to sit on the side lines and moan about how inadequate the current group of politicians are AND actually have the gall to tell us all that they warned us - the voters, about electing inexperienced people to the jobs!

Just wait and see and then let me know if all of this unfolds as expected.

Meanwhile of course - those that WERE in charge are all melting away - no doubt to get some high priced and high power jobs elsewhere and minding their Ps and Q's just waiting for the next opportunity to stick their snouts into the trough of public funds while allowing the poor schmucks like the current opposition leader to bear the jibes of the new government before the next bloodbath in which those in power now will be thrown out and new "wunderkinder' found within the rank and file to make everything right again (with emphasis on the "right")

Ah politics what a bloody mess you are!