SH> every investor just loves a government that raises taxes so it
SH> can spen more. while i've been rather sceptical of john howard
SH> being able make t grade i aint so sure he cant anymore. maybe
SH> its time for a contract wit australia type government sea(?)
SH> change. coz the all ords sure as hell care for our fundementals
SH> at the moment..what say you cyberspace pundit i've definitely
SH> given up on the worlds greatest treasurer et al ....

PS> I couldn't agree more. In fact I've said politicians need special
PS> controls.

PS> 1 Politicians must be subject to the companies code.

Wont work. We have a completely different system for governments.
They propose various things. You vote for them or the alternative.
The party with roughly the most votes gets to govern. You get to
turf them out on their ear if they stuff up badly enough, as the
electors did with the southern labor states, VIC, SA and WA.

Companys code wouldnt help a bit.

PS> 2 Polies should be subject to trade practices for election promises.

That wont work either because it can never be possible to be that sure
about how things will change. Even just budget to budget you cant. The
federal government predicted business investment would grow by 14%. ALL
the commentators without exception pissed themselves falling around on
the floor laughing at that. What actually happened was 24%, damned near
twice what looked like ludicrously optimistic.

Holding the pollys to election promises for say 3 or 4 years would
inevitably result in utter catastrophe as they mindlessly adhere to
promise which no longer make the slightest sense. Are you seriously
suggesting that the current federal government should STILL bring in
the promised tax cuts, blow out the already far to high deficit, and
comprehensively root the economy all over again in the process ? Mad IMO.

PS> 3 Perhaps they should not get paid, so they volunteer for our good.

That is close to how local government worked for ages. Didnt appear
to help very much. I agree they are OTW paid far too much and you
would still get plenty of people if you halved the wages and
conditions, but I cant see that actually affecting the economy at all.

PS> 4 They must have some qualifications and or talent.

In fact the ones who have had qualifications are no advertisement for
that working. Hewson is the absolutely classic example of someone who
you couldnt quibble about his qualifications. Useless as a politician tho.

Rob Jolley had as good qualifications as you could ask for, but
comprehensively stuffed the economy of VIC and damned near bankrupted it.

John Kerin had formal qualifications, was a pathetic treasurer.

John Button is someone who has no qualifications in the areas
he did useful stuff in at all and STILL delivered far far more
in useful result than we have seen in a hell of a long time.

So much for qualifications.

PS> Do you think this may help?

Nope |-)

--- PQWK202