999,999 of those were for literate spin writers with the accepted Labor message but they could only find one and that was from overseas on a 547 visa

I hear that Rudd -Labor is going to win the next election. No working person (or someone seeking work)  is going to vote for Tony Abbot, knowing his position on industrial relations reform and desire for some sort of WorkChoices under another name.

And no one has written to contradict me? Must be you all agree then. What are the odds right now on Sportsbet?

Call me a cynic, but I do have to shake my head at the naiveté of apologists on both sides of politics who believe that, in the face of a global recession, anything done or not done by the government of a minnow country like Australia is going to have a significant effect on our economy.
Stimulation packages and public works projects may ease the pain in the short term, but the main reason we survived the GFC virtually unscathed was a resources boom driven by an expanding Chinese economy. Now the inevitable has happened and while we will probably be spared the nightmare of, for example, the Greek or Spanish economies, there is no doubt we are going to have to do some serious belt tightening; and there is virtually NOTHING any government - be it Labor or Coalition can do to avoid that.