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    <title>topic Re: Humble Pie in Community Spirit</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638797#M424980</link>
    <description>Abbott: one of his first acts on becoming PM&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Sacked the Treasury Secretary ( vindictively over climate change view). Let him stay on to assist with G20. Not been replaced. Also sacked his obvious successor for same reason.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Assistant Treasurer ( to Hockey) Arthur Sinodinos stood down while under investigation by ICAC for corruption. ICAC findings due early 2015.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Joe hockey, Treasurer - who said " poor people don't drive cars and if they do they don't drive very far....."&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;This is a good article&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;1 December&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Why Hockey's Budget flopped so badly&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Who could have predicted what a hash a Coalition government would make of its first budget? If Joe Hockey wants to lift his game in 2015, as we must hope he will, there are lessons the government - and its bureaucratic advisers - need to learn.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;The first and biggest reason the government is having to modify or abandon so many of its measures is the budget's blatant unfairness. In 40 years of budget-watching I've seen plenty of unfair budgets, but never one as bad as this.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Frankly, you need a mighty lot of unfairness before most people notice. But this one had it all. Make young people wait six months for the dole? Sure. Cut the indexation of the age pension? Sure. Charge people $7 to visit the doctor, and more if they get tests, regardless of how poor they are? Sure.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Charge people up to $42.70 per prescription? Sure. Lumber uni students with hugely increased HECS debts that grow in real terms even when they're earning less than $50,000 a year? Sure.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;What distinguished this budget was that even people who weren't greatly affected by its imposts could see how unfair it was to others.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Unfairly sacked Treasury secretary Dr Martin Parkinson is right to remind us we have to accept some hit to our pocket if the government's budget is to get out of structural deficit. But any politician or econocrat who expects to get such public acquiescence to tough measures that aren't seen to be reasonably fair needs to repeat Politics 101.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;This is particularly so when a government lacks the numbers in the Senate - as is almost always the case. Without a reasonable degree of support from the electorate, your chances are slim. Especially when you subjected your political opponents to unreasoning opposition when they were in office.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;A related lesson is that successful efforts to restore budgets to surplus invariably rely on a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. To cut spending programs while ignoring the "tax expenditures" enjoyed by business and high income-earners, as this government decided to do, is to guarantee your efforts will be blatantly unfair and recognised as such.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Move in on "unsustainable" spending on age pensions while ignoring all the genuinely unsustainable tax breaks on superannuation? Sure. Our promise to the banks not to touch super trumps our promise to voters not to touch the pension. This makes sense?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;But a politically stupid degree of unfairness isn't the only reason this budget was such a poor one. Its other big failing was the poor quality of its measures.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;It sought to improve the budget position not by raising the efficiency and effectiveness of government spending, but simply by cost-shifting: to the sick, the unemployed, to the aged, to university students and, particularly, to the states.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;There are various ways to improve the cost-effectiveness of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme - though this would involve standing up to the foreign drug companies and to chemists - but why not just whack up the already high co-payment?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;There are ways to reform the medical benefits scheme - by standing up to specialists - but why not just introduce a new GP co-payment, even though we already have a much higher degree of out-of-pocket payments than most countries?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;The claim that introducing a GP co-payment constitutes micro-economic reform because it gets a "price signal" into Medicare lacks credibility. For a start, I don't believe that's the real motive. Who doubts that, once a co-payment is introduced, it won't be regularly increased whenever governments see the need for further cost-shifting?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;For another thing, the notion that introducing a price signal would deter wasteful use without any adverse "unintended consequences" is fundamentalist dogma, not modern health economics.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Similarly, the notion that deregulating tuition fees would turn universities into an efficient, price-competitive market with no adverse consequences to speak of is first-years' oversimplification, not evidence-based economics worthy of PhD-qualified econocrats.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I'm not convinced the range of savings options Treasury and Finance offered the government was of much higher quality than the options it picked.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;This budget was so bad because so little effort was put into making it any better.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I'm starting to fear our governments and their econocrats have got themselves into a vicious circle: because the econocrats can't come up with anything better, they fall back on yet another round of that great Orwellian false economy, the "efficiency dividend".&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;But the never-ending extraction of what have become inefficiency dividends is robbing the public service of the expertise it needs to come up with budget measures that would actually improve the public sector's efficiency.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Ross Gittins, Economist&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.rossgittins.com/2014/12/why-hockeys-budget-flopped-so-badly.html"&gt;http://www.rossgittins.com/2014/12/why-hockeys-budget-flopped-so-badly.html&lt;/A&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:19:37 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-12-02T00:19:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638542#M424840</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;For Tony Abbott,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Promises before the election, will people forgive him?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;These very important promises he made probably convinced many to vote for him.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does it make him look like a fool because he harped on about the previous governments promises.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:50:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>donnashuggy</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T21:50:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638552#M424844</link>
      <description>No it makes him an arrogant, pompous git</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>wilk1149</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:00:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638557#M424847</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Phony's latest blunder from yesterday makes him look like a righteous whatever:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;“So, in conclusion let me say, we will deliver a fair dinkum paid parental leave scheme. What tweaks might possibly occur will depend very much on the course of discussions with the Senate early in the new year. Likewise, everything else. They all know what we are trying to achieve. Everyone knows where this Government’s heart is. Everyone knows what this Government’s fundamental commitments are. Our heart is with a fair dinkum paid parental leave scheme. Our heart is with a country that can look its kids and grandkids in the eye and say, ‘&lt;STRONG&gt;We are not leaving you with unsustainable debt; we are not going to practice intergenerational theft to sustain our own spending’&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;* &lt;/STRONG&gt;riiiiiight&lt;STRONG&gt;.....and .....*PPppppFttttt!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:04:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638557#M424847</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:04:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638561#M424849</link>
      <description>my hero Tony, way to go &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":monkey_face:"&gt;🐵&lt;/span&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:06:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>harley_babes_hoard</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:06:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638563#M424850</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Time and time again he continues to prove just how out of depth and incompetent he is.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Where's Joe?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:07:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>freddie*rooster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:07:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638565#M424851</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/288435"&gt;@wilk1149&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;No it makes him an arrogant, pompous git&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Tell us what you ready think ??&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:08:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>grandmoon</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:08:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638572#M424855</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Just treading water.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:12:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638572#M424855</guid>
      <dc:creator>horizon1907</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:12:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638574#M424856</link>
      <description>Mods won't let me.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:13:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638574#M424856</guid>
      <dc:creator>wilk1149</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:13:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638587#M424862</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/288435"&gt;@wilk1149&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;Mods won't let me.&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Pity&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:20:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>grandmoon</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:20:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638606#M424868</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;to freddie who asked:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;where's Joe........?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;...........................................................................................................................................................................................................&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;......it has allegedly been reported that he was sighted recently&amp;nbsp;opposite 'that' pizza place, in the park......is that a back bench?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG border="0" src="http://www.mikezap.com/images/drunk/drunk-bench-watermelon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:30:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:30:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638621#M424877</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The Prime Minister’s claim that &lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;“we are not leaving you with unsustainable debt; we are not going to practice intergenerational theft to sustain our own spending”&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt; is even more delusional.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;How exactly does jacking-up younger Australian’s university debts, cutting access to unemployment benefits for six months for under-30s, and opening the sleuth gates to 457 visas when &lt;STRONG&gt;youth labour underutilsation is running at 30%&lt;/STRONG&gt;, improve inter-generational equity?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The Prime Minister’s claims are all the more galling given the Budget left untouched the massive concessions on superannuation, negative gearing, and capital gains taxes, which overwhelmingly benefit the older generations&lt;STRONG&gt; at the expense of the young&lt;/STRONG&gt;, including by increasing the tax burden on ordinary workers, as well as raising younger Australian’s housing costs (and mortgage debts).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Tony Abbott is either delusional or being deliberately obtuse as he attempts a big electoral bribe to solve&amp;nbsp;his “women problem”.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/12/ppl-continues-to-sink-abbott-credibility/"&gt;http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/12/ppl-continues-to-sink-abbott-credibility/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:38:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:38:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638626#M424881</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I like it when people admit mistakes, I like them more&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>donnashuggy</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:41:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638628#M424882</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;.....not leaving anyone with unsustainable debt????!!!! &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;What about the 2 TRILLION in private housing debt/mortgages?!!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;.....others are asking....is this man mad ?.....or stupid?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:41:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638642#M424888</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;"How can this disingenuous pr*ck seriously say this with a straight face….&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;“Our heart is with a country that can look its kids and grandkids in the eye and say, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;‘We are not leaving you with unsustainable debt; we are not going to practice intergenerational theft to sustain our own spending’”&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;**bleep** here’s how you can stop intergenerational theft One Term Tony……&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Repeal your proposals to enslave a generation with high student debts&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Enact policies to significantly improve housing affordability, say to 4x household earnings&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Eliminate the generous tax benefits enriching the boomer generation – Super, CGT and negative gearing&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Remove the generous pension entitlements for the asset and rich superannuants&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Align Australia’s environmental policies with other more progressive nations.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;That’s what you can do to eliminate Intergenerational Theft!!!!!!"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:46:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:46:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638644#M424889</link>
      <description>Stupidly mad or madingly stupid. Arrogant, pompous, conceited, narcissistic, immoral, untruthful, misogynistic, elitist, aggressive etc</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:46:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638644#M424889</guid>
      <dc:creator>wilk1149</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:46:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638656#M424894</link>
      <description>My opinion is that he hounded JG over her carbon tax comment &amp;amp; got voted in without really disclosing what his policies were, making a lot of promises that sounded good to get elected, that were blatant lies and no, I don't trust him&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Live by the sword, die by the sword I reckon.&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;amp; it's ironic because he's doing what he accused the labor party of, only 20 times worse&lt;BR /&gt;He still acts like he's in opposition, probably because it was successful for him</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:54:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:54:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638667#M424900</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;to wilk, you left out : goon, cowboy, dumb, .....*&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;EM&gt;yawn....&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;it's pretty well obvious imo that he is sooooo wrong in every way!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;There is no surer way to spot deceit than when a speaker refers to the ‘heart’......&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;I&lt;/STRONG&gt; can solemnly say, with my hand on my heart….&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Those are some pretty big swings on the polygraph needle! &lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.png" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;what's the bet the Coalition beg MT to take the helm ?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:01:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638667#M424900</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T23:01:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638669#M424901</link>
      <description>Hey Paints, just want to say that I think you're a really good sport.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638669#M424901</guid>
      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T23:03:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638679#M424906</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;aw shucks Deb......Taa!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:10:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638679#M424906</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T23:10:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Humble Pie</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638684#M424908</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;P007&lt;EM&gt;: "&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;.....not leaving anyone with unsustainable debt????!!!! &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;What about the 2 TRILLION in private housing debt/mortgages?!!"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;What about differentiating between public and private sector debt?&amp;nbsp; &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 18pt;"&gt;there is a teeny weeny difference!.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt; Deloitte Access Economics says the budget will be in deficit in both 2012-13 and the election year of 2013-14, a projection it says will be confirmed in the forthcoming official mid-year update.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Such an outcome would open Labor to the charge that it had not delivered a surplus in government in more than 20 years."&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Swan indicating the possible size of&amp;nbsp; the next budget "surplus":&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;IMG title="Swan treasurer.jpg" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/65469i25A686E34E965A09/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" align="middle" alt="Swan treasurer.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="Myopic Tongues2 Small.jpg" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/65470i51ABBE2D562BBB1B/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" align="middle" alt="Myopic Tongues2 Small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:15:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Humble-Pie/m-p/1638684#M424908</guid>
      <dc:creator>monman12</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-12-01T23:15:47Z</dc:date>
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