Yeah should be quite interesting Victoria. Our labour government in the past have always been real bad for our country and have let things been very run down. John Howard was in though for 11yrs and all the young people that were just born when the labour government was in charge did not know the damage it did....and they all voted for Rudd. It was quite a landslide really....but see how we go....time can only tell and to tell you the honest truth I am not really worried....they are all the same!
Sonya, Sonya, Sonya......I don't want to start an argument with you over Politics ( although I LOVE a good debate) however do a bit of research and you will find that the past Labour Governments basically took over power from the Liberals AFTER they "stuffed up" our Economy during their terms. The WORST treasurer in Australia's history was Johnny Howard and when Bob Hawke and Paul Keating took over in the early 80's there was a bit of a mess to clean up...
If it is belived that labour was solely responsible for High interest rates - why wasn't the outgoing Government able to keep them in check recently?? They really did contradict themselves didn't they?? - On one hand telling us not to Risk Labor, then telling us that the interest rate increases during the past two years were out of their control?? - Go figure, wasn't his last election win based on a promise to keep interest rate low?? I am predicting that interest rates WILL Definatly go up again - Not because of who is in charge NOW but because of things that Howard and Costello did during their time such as The first home owners grant and The baby Bonus scheme. They have given the average family "bonus" money ( great vote winners for them in the past) but unfurtunatly these will become a major liability to us all in the future.... More spending money in the publics pocket creates high interest rates and this wil be a burdon to us all shortly.
Howard and Costello scare tactics during the campaign were based on the High interest rates of the mid 80's - When they took over power 11 years ago these had already been in a rapid decline and they have both been fortunate to remain in power while Australia was in a growth Period. The only reason that Howard won that election then was because Keating had just taken over from Hawke and people felt he had become too "full" of himself. They have only managed to stay in power because "times" were on their side.... Terroist bombings, Children overboard etc.. They managed to manipulate the population into thinking it wasn't good to change the Heads of our Country while these things were going on.
Did you know that if they won that election that there were a few more possible surprises instore for us... Firstly Costello wanted to up the GST to 20% and get rid of Medicare....Yea, things were much better under the Liberals - NOT...! The election was Won by Rudy over the Work choices legislation, something that I also feel was put over us by the the former pm and treasurer and if they had been given the greenlight by another election win, thing would be much worse in the future. I know as a business owner I should of loved it but all of the Liberals policies weere directed towards bigger businesses and not us small guys. Look at Price fixing by the Big multi-nationals such as Woolies, Anywhere else in the world it would be an offence for them to do business the way they do but here they have been getting away with this practice. Howard has promised and promised to bring in legistation to combat it but failed to do so.
The fact of the matter is that it was definatly time for a change, Rudd has proven to be full of enthusiasim and I think for now he will do an excellent job. He is open to change and ideas ..something that Howard nor Costello in recent times were not ( unless they thought of it first) Funny, the exact reason on how they came to be in power was also their final undoing.
Sorry .. didn't mean for this to get so long...I just get a bit carried away with the subject.... I'm amazed that I didn't give you a "Kevin 07" sticker the day you came in..... most people I know have been given one.....
