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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby dedja » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:34 am

LOL, here we again ... and what shape was the economy in 1983 when Labor came to power?
Dunno, I’m just an idiot.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby bulldogproud2 » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:36 am

The surplus is not really an issue. After all, why do you think surplus budgets are run? It is to act as insurance for when the funds are needed. Australia's level of debt by world standards is incredibly small. Look at what just happened in the US as an example of the level of debt some nations carry. Oh, btw, there were deficit budgets run by the Howard administration as well. I am surprised you are not looking at the value of the Australian dollar as an indicator of Australia's economic position, ST. Recently it was the highest it has ever been.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:41 am

i think i read in that article that keating left howard with a defecit yeah?? :oops: At least costello gave back to the australian PEOPLE and didnt have to go borrow it to give unlike the current government. And left a healthy surplus. interesting comment from the westpac bloke tho dont you think?
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby bulldogproud2 » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:45 am

straight talker wrote:i think i read in that article that keating left howard with a defecit yeah?? :oops: At least costello gave back to the australian PEOPLE and didnt have to go borrow it to give unlike the current government. And left a healthy surplus. interesting comment from the westpac bloke tho dont you think?


If the Howard administration had done something about Australia's infrastructure problem, maybe there would not have been as substantial a surplus, ST? Easy to run a surplus when you don't spend! lol
Btw, your comment re Costello 'giving back' to the Australian people shows that you have no idea how a surplus or a deficit are created. A surplus comes from taking more from the economy than you are putting in (more revenue than expenditure). A deficit comes from 'giving back' (spending more on the Australian people than you are taking from them in revenue). You may wish to study some economics, ST, as you are totally backwards on your points!
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby dedja » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:50 am

got some reasonable coin out of selling 50.1% of Telstra in 3 bites as well ...
Dunno, I’m just an idiot.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby Gozu » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:54 am

straight talker wrote:i think i read in that article that keating left howard with a defecit yeah?? :oops: At least costello gave back to the australian PEOPLE and didnt have to go borrow it to give unlike the current government. And left a healthy surplus. interesting comment from the westpac bloke tho dont you think?


I might've been wrong on that re-reading that article but I'm sure Keating had the first ever budget surplus though.

PAUL KEATING, FORMER PRIME MINISTER: Yes, but I ran the first Federal surpluses in the nation's history Tony, I noticed Malcolm Turnbull out with a porky tonight talking about Labor and surpluses.

The first Federal surplus ever was introduced by me as Treasurer, three in a row, and up to two per cent of GDP. But again there's all this stuff about fiscal conservatives and fiscal something. What you've got to be is a fiscal pragmatist.


http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/ ... 480345.htm
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:55 am

what are the labor government doing? Would i be wrong to think the labor government hasnt sold off some of australias assets?? Is the australian government borrowing millions of dollars a day? What will swan have paid off just the interest or the whole lot?
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby Gozu » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:01 am

straight talker wrote:what are the labor government doing?


Running arguably the best economy in the world, thank you very much.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:04 am

yep keating said he had surplus 3 times... KEATING for gods sake... :lol:
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:06 am

Gozu wrote:
straight talker wrote:what are the labor government doing?


Running arguably the best economy in the world, thank you very much.

how bout the rest of the things i asked gozo do you just pick and choose what you thinklabor are doing good? Which isnt much. :roll: :lol:
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby Gozu » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:12 am

straight talker wrote:
Gozu wrote:
straight talker wrote:what are the labor government doing?


Running arguably the best economy in the world, thank you very much.

how bout the rest of the things i asked gozo do you just pick and choose what you thinklabor are doing good? Which isnt much. :roll: :lol:


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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:54 pm

like i have said before the labor party couldnt run a chook raffle at the rooty hill RSL on Anzac day! :lol: :lol:
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby fish » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:28 pm

Liberal Senator Sean Edwards is facing claims that staff from his business have been working from his taxpayer-funded office. [-X

EMBATTLED Liberal Senator Sean Edwards is facing claims that two staff from his business have been working from his taxpayer-funded office.

A Liberal source claims Senator Edwards closed a business office on Flinders St, Adelaide, and transferred two private staff, including his daughter, into the Commonwealth Parliament Offices on King William St when he entered the Senate.

The claim comes after a series of embarrassing revelations for Senator Edwards, a former Liberal Party state president, who has only been in Parliament since July.

He is already facing a Federal Government investigation into his use of three taxpayer-funded Comcars last week after he gave his maiden speech in the Senate.

Senator Edwards claimed there were no cabs available at the time, and the cars were used to transport his family.

And this week he admitted that one of his staffers assumed an alias and wrote to independent Senator Nick Xenophon to seek his views on the live animal export trade.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:47 pm

fish wrote:Liberal Senator Sean Edwards is facing claims that staff from his business have been working from his taxpayer-funded office. [-X

EMBATTLED Liberal Senator Sean Edwards is facing claims that two staff from his business have been working from his taxpayer-funded office.

A Liberal source claims Senator Edwards closed a business office on Flinders St, Adelaide, and transferred two private staff, including his daughter, into the Commonwealth Parliament Offices on King William St when he entered the Senate.

The claim comes after a series of embarrassing revelations for Senator Edwards, a former Liberal Party state president, who has only been in Parliament since July.

He is already facing a Federal Government investigation into his use of three taxpayer-funded Comcars last week after he gave his maiden speech in the Senate.

Senator Edwards claimed there were no cabs available at the time, and the cars were used to transport his family.

And this week he admitted that one of his staffers assumed an alias and wrote to independent Senator Nick Xenophon to seek his views on the live animal export trade.

AND the moral of the story is??
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:47 am

trying to take the heat off thomson? He is miles and miles ahead in the dodgy corrupt race! :roll:
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby best on hill » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:53 am

straight talker wrote:trying to take the heat off thomson? He is miles and miles ahead in the dodgy corrupt race! :roll:



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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby straight talker » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:59 am

i think yl find in most peoples opinion.! :roll: now they have the boat people stuff up to worry about as well!! :oops: :oops:
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby bulldogproud2 » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:38 pm

straight talker wrote:i think yl find in most peoples opinion.! :roll: now they have the boat people stuff up to worry about as well!! :oops: :oops:


No more a stuff up than the Liberal Party's postion on boat people. However, it does give the Labor Party the opportunity to regain the moral high ground and go back to onshore processing of asylum seekers. They should never have looked at offshore processing in the first place.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby mick » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:40 pm

bulldogproud2 wrote:
straight talker wrote:i think yl find in most peoples opinion.! :roll: now they have the boat people stuff up to worry about as well!! :oops: :oops:


No more a stuff up than the Liberal Party's postion on boat people. However, it does give the Labor Party the opportunity to regain the moral high ground and go back to onshore processing of asylum seekers. They should never have looked at offshore processing in the first place.
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I agree with that, it makes both moral and economic sense, but it won't happen - it is electoral suicide as Labor's blue collar/unskilled supporters don't want asylum seekers here.
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Re: liberal party keep hiring from dodgey capitalist pigs

Postby southee » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:45 pm

Gozu wrote:
straight talker wrote:what are the labor government doing?


Running arguably the best economy in the world, thank you very much.


....and placing Australia more in debt paying laughable high interest they are borrowing. :roll:
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