SH> yo kids...

yo gramps...

SH> well it's finally happened..

Oh no, not the end of civilisation as we know it, surely not ?

SH> goss is

Young wayne may well be is not come saturday.

SH> that the gov and opposition monitor these areas...

Wanna bet ?  They are trying to do funky stuff like win an election.

SH> so let's stick it to 'em.

And if they do monitor these areas, they will likely
take you name, and shaft you when elected too |-)

SH> so what about the all ords today eh? jumped 25 points
SH> as soon as it had an opportunity to after our pm
SH> (but not for much longer???) called the election.

Sure, but it always does stuff like that because of elections.

SH> come on let's make their monitoring worth while...

You havent actually established they DO monitor, but they dont.

SH> let's get controversial.

Oh no, where will it all end ?

SH> imo the ONLY election the opposition REALLY needed to win was the last
SH> one when we would have had the financia revolution we really needed..

And the voters essentially decided that while labor was very comprehensively
on the nose, they werent on the nose enough to be game to vote for a GST and
a vast raft of changes that gave them severe brain fade trying to work out
what was planned, let alone if what they thought about what was planned.

This time they are clearly trying the other approach, let the guvmint
lose the election, promise little, just enough to be credible, and
hope that will get them over the line. Hewsons legacy is that for a
generation no politician will ever be game to propose a GST from
opposition, or have a mega manifesto of policys.

I personally think that its time for a change, mainly because I cant
see labor doing what needs to be done on IR, particularly telling the
unions they cant stick their noses into agreements where neither party
has any interest in the union comments. And I never seen any sense in
letting unrepresentative swill like the ACTU and little tin gods like
Hawke and Kelty proclaim on how things will be done. Hardly democracy.

Union membership is going down the tubes in the MOST spectacular fashion
and its become clear that you can run even a major mining venture a hell
of a lot better if you pay people a salary instead of by the hour. It may
well be that a great chunk of the industrial system can be given a good
shove into the 21st century and we can discard most of the boring old
farts warming seats on the IR bench, doing SFA for the country etc.

There isnt too much too obviously different between the sides
on the economy as a whole. Usual mindless posturing with the
Coalition raving about how awful it is to flog off the rest
of the ComBank and being quite happy to flog off much more of
Telstra. With equally mindless posturing from Labor in reverse too.

I think you really do have to accept that federal labor has done
a pretty decent job of the economy overall, and not much different
at all to what the coalition would have done in that 13 years.

But equally, if there isnt much in it between them, and the
coalition looks more likely to shake up the IR scene, fine,
about time for a change. Hardly likely to make the curtains fade.

SH> but then that is only my opinion...

I bet you are just Johnny Howard in drag. You cant fool me Sam.

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