The word on the street is that Rattus is on the nose and it's the same within his own party... Sure there are still a few ratty extreme rightwing rednecks who will stick to his alienating policies like fish-glue but most are quite angry he left the succession so late. Now no matter if it happened today, tomorrow or after the defeat of the coalition at the next Federal election, it will be too late... Sure, Rattus Federalus can and will try all he can in his book of platitudes and fearmongerings to stop any decent government taking power in this country. With his US flag on the sleeve and his grocery friends frenzying like dung beetles around profits rotting in the sun, it seems he is incapable of properly understanding or seeing the future. He looks towards it, mind you, but walks backwards, returning this country to the whitewash Australia policy, amongst other bad things...

But don't be fooled, Rattus Kiribillius is a genius of the devious manipulative plans... and his main right hand dirt-filer must be working overtime. Keep your eyes opened...

From the SMH

Let's have a real debate, Mr Costello, not hot air

 

Anne Twomey
April 3, 2007

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"and finally, that the states want to increase the GST: the federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, has said the states want the GST increased and that this was recommended in a report commissioned by the Council for the Australian Federation. He said he had not read the report. If he had done so, he would have seen that the report makes no such recommendation. I know this because I co-wrote it."

From our obliging ABC

Economic changes deliver human dividend: PM

Prime Minister John Howard has used his weekly radio message to speak of the 'human dividend' produced by the Federal Government's economic changes.

Mr Howard says the Government's changes of the past decade, including industrial relations, have all been about improving people's lives.

He says one of the Government's major achievements has been a 32-year low in unemployment.

"Managing the economy well is not an end in itself," he said.

"Strong economic growth is never a virtue in its own right. All the reforms of the past decade have only been justified because of the immense human dividend they have helped deliver."

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Gus: Obviously, our national UnAustralian lives on a different planet... "His" stats seem to deliver something that I can't see on the streets — struggle streets. When people of little means struggle even harder to make ends meet, when suicides are reported to the ratio of one for 50, when the less people have, the more impossible hoops they have to jump through to get a basic "human dividend"... despite the "good" stats, the game is lost.

Thus the Rattus Primus is at it again, using smart and polished rhetoric — with words he may not know the true meaning of — that means there is more bad news for those who find life hard: they're going to find it harder while those who have been able to get a little bit ahead will not progress any further, except in illusions of buy-now-pay-later, not even dreams.

In the meantime, our values have rotted to the core. Deceit, war, ugly competitiveness, destruction of the environment despite the windmillery of the Malcolmuses, lies, frippery, IR blood-sucking, bad education policies... The list is long. Housing speculation and digging holes in the grounds (called resources boom) have floated this government for opportunistic leeches — not the government policies — policies that have removed all safety nets, but one — full of holes, including a trade deficit the size of half a yearly national budget.

The best claim to fame by this Ratus Rottenus corus government has been to mutate a small national debt to a gigantic individual personal debt in which we have to borrow on the future to even live in the past.

"Human dividend"? Yep, more flotsam and jetsam — but hidden away from the beaches of Richer Bay.