Polly the Parrot sang "Swanee" for a cracker:
> fasgnadh wrote:
>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>> Green Lantern <green@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>> H.D. <herpem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>> Green Lantern <green@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>>> H.D. <herpem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>>>> Polly the Parrot <flatulantdingo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>>>>> Green Lantern <green@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>
>>>>>>>>> The banks sure like giving Swann the forks.
>>>
>>>>>>>> Old Swannie will just bend over and take it up his crack. Too
>>>>>>>> scared to say anything.
>>>
>>>>>>> So you want the Government to interfere in the running of private
>>>>>>> enterprise?
>>>
>>>>>> So you want to make a correct interpretation ? Let me put you on
the
>>>>>> right path. What's required is leader****p - the kind that Costello
>>>>>> provided.
>>>
>>>>> Like telling the banks not to increase interest rates?
>>>
>>>> Leader****p isn't dictator****p.
>>>
>>> You wouldnt know what real leader****p was if it bit you on your lard
>>> arse.
>>>
>>>> The Treasurer should have a meeting with the banks, clearly explain
>>>> what's expected of them
>>>
>>> And even Costello would have had the banks rub his nose in the
>>> increased cost of funds to them as international liquidity has dried
up.
>>>
>>
>> And they would also have rubbed Howard and Costello's noses in
>> their policies which directly fuelled the massive price inflation
>> of housing as they subsidised home buying in the property price
>> bubble.. financed by DEBT, which the banks met by overseas borrowings.
>>
>> And then Costello and Howard could have rubbed the Bank's noses
>> in their exposure to the USSA sub-prime mortgage debacle, because
>> they are the 'economic managers' who really should have seen the risks,
>> but like Howard and Costello, they wanted the huge, debt-driven
>> consumption binge to keep rolling along, because it made it APPEAR
>> as if we had a buoyant economy, made profits for the Banks and
>> votes for the government... till the bubbles, domestic and
>> international.. burst.
>>
>>
>>
>> And now the voters and Rudd have rubbed Howard and
>> Costello's noses in their $544,000,000,000 Black hole
>> of debt, which exposed not just the SPIVS and SPECULATORS
>> to the ravages of an international credit squeeze,
>> but all the little folk in the economy as well.. those who never
>> stood to make fortunes from speculation, but needed a place to live,
>> not a rental property, or needed to borrow for a medical operation,
>> or invested in machinery for their farm or business...
>>
>>
>> The tories always like to take credit for the boom times, even
>> though Howard and Costello did bugger all to cause it.. less that
>> Whitlam who took us into China, or Keating, who carried out more
>> economic reform than Menzies and Howard put together.
>>
>> But when things go wrong, they turn on and blame the voters,
>> "you should have seen this coming".. which really means
>> 'You should not have believed our lies"
>>
>> Well, let's hope the voters remember the lesson.
>>
>>>> and get them to defend any actions outside of these expectations.
>>>
>>> They've done that in spades and anyone with a clue has noticed
>>> that they had no choice on what they had to do interest rates wise.
>>>
>>
>> Amazing how Rod will blame the victims for not anticipating
>> the 'global liquidity crisis' but not the Banks and the Liberal
>> government.. the SELF-PROCLAIMED ECONOMIC MANAGERS whose job
>> is financial awareness, prudent investment and risk management
>> who not only missed the coming crisis, but HELPED TO CAUSE IT,
>> profited in dollars and votes from it, and called those of us who
>> warned "the Bubble Will Burst" hysterical pessimists who were
>> 'talking down the economy !!!
>>
>> BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!
>>
>> I followed my own advice and am debt free and liquid,
>> when and where did the other economic pundits who
>> are now blaming you victims for 'your folly', warn you!?
>>
>> And when they blame the mum and dad home owners for failing
>> to predict the Bubble Bursting, but not the economic 'managers',
>> tory politicians and cor****ate interests, who CREATED the bubble,
>> and INVENTED the new financial instruments to make risky ****
>> look like solid ground.. then that is simply obscene.
>>
>>
>> Rudd has taken the only option any decent politician can..
>> he has told the Australian people that the problem his government
>> has inherited cannot be turned around quickly, that it is now
>> international as well as domestic in scope, that he is now re-engaging
>> in the multi-lateral international bodies AND in domestic policies
>> to redirect investment into productive national efforts, and not
>> more Bubble, more tory voodoo economics.
>>
>>>> Explain that unreasonable action will be made public
>>>
>>> Pity that what they have done is perfectly reasonable in the
>>> cir***stances.
>>>
>>
>> The banks actions are always reasonable, when viewed in
>> terms of THEIR goals, short term profit maximization.
>>
>> But as we have seen, they are
>>
>> a) incompetent risk managers, which is why many of them
>> have failed around the globe and had to receive socialist
>> bail-outs(tax payer funded rescue! 8^o)
>>
>> b) means by which Australians who have invested in sound property
>> are now exposed to the banks RISKY sub-prime debacle, i.e. the
>> NON-speculators, NON-'economic managers' are suffering from
>> the idiocy, lake of prudential measures, greed and arrogance
>> of the financial and political sectors Masters of the Universe.
>>
>> Fortunately we can take revenge on the political pretenders, and
>> have done so by voting them out.. in EVERY STATE.. but the
>> Financial sector frauds are not only still in their jobs, but
>> will receive bonuses for passing on the costs of THEIR failure
>> to the rest of us in the economy. Mostly this will be in higher
>> interest rates, where Joe Blow is paying for the USSA sub-prime
>> losses, but in some cases large cor****ations at risk of collapse
>> will actually be bailed out by direct injection of taxpayer funds.
>>
>> Socialism to the rescue! B^D
>>
>> When Free Market ideologues rant about the Market being all you
>> need to achieve optimum economic outcomes, just laugh and remind
>> them of the truth;
>>
>> Modern mixed economies are capitalist AND socialist, the best of
them
>> accept this and do it in a rational way, sharing the benefits AND
>> costs, among ALL sectors...... the worst, like Howard and Co,
pretend
>> that only the private sector knows, and must be unfettered to rort
>> and pillage until they can no longer do so because the public
carcase
>> is sucked dry, and then we have Privatized Profit and Socialized
>> Losses .. they get the profits in good times, you get the pain
>> in bad.
>>
>> **** that! B^D
>>
>> "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido"!
>>
>
> You need to see a surgeon, man.
You have to wonder about someone who cant argue the issue but posts
ONLY empty rhetoric, ad hom and abuse...
> Maybe they can operate and remove the chips you have on both shoulders?
It's clear you can't rationally debate the points I raise, so
you can only seek to 'imagine' my motives and then impugn the
straw man you have constructed. Unfortunately for you reality
does not match what you wish it was.. B^)
I don't have 'a chip', in fact I own 400 acres of commercial timber and
the last thing I would want is to chip it, I'm debt free and liquid.
BUT, like all taxpayers, I can still be affected by poor decisions by
politicians and bankers... it just seems I am aware of that and can
sensibly discuss it, and you are not. B^p
If you think you don't pay for poor decisions by Banks and governemnts
which bail them out with taxpayer dollars then you must be Old Swannie;
"Old Swannie will just bend over and take it up his crack. Too scared
to say anything."
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAA!
>>>
>>>> Swan doesn't seem up to the task.
>>>
>>> Neither was Costello.
>>>
>>> He hasnt even got the balls to run the liberal party when the voters
>>> gave Howard the
>>> bums rush, very uncermoniously indeed, straight out the door, on his
>>> geriatric arse.
>>>
>>> Howard and Costello couldnt even manage to get the reserve
>>> bank to not increase interest rates in the runnup to the election.
>>
>>
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Howard says sorry for causing inflation and Interest Rate Rises;
"I'm Sorry about that, and I regret the additional burden"
- PM Lying Rodent apologising for latest rate rise
As we all know, John Howard NEVER SAYS SORRY...
...unless it's HIS FAULT! 8^o
"Howard concedes broken promise"
"Prime Minister John Howard has conceded that
interest rates are no longer at "record lows",
in violation of a promise made in the 2004
election campaign." - The Age 26/10/2007
"Three rate rises ahead" - ANZ, HSBC Chief, other banks
- The Age October 26, 2007
Thats TEN Interest rate rises since 2002, and more to come! 8^o
"We will keep interest rates at record lows" -Howard the Liar
You simply can't trust the Howard government,
He and Costello have BETRAYED the trust of
the Australian people
"After a successful few years as a junior minister in
Malcolm Fraser's government, Howard was promoted to
treasury, where his five years in the job can only
be judged as an unmitigated failure.
Take a look at the statistics.
When Howard left the treasury in March 1983, the
budget deficit was forecast at $9.6 billion, inflation
was 11 per cent, unemployment was 10.2 per cent,
the economy was in recession with negative
0.4 per cent growth, and housing interest rates
were 13 per cent.
And, despite the 1982-83 recession being the worst
since the Great Depression, Howard still managed to
increase the federal tax take from 25.1 per cent of
GDP in 1977 to 27.5 per cent of GDP by 1982-83.
Howard then spent 13 years in opposition, during
which - when he wasn't leader himself - he spent
a lot of time conspiring against the three leaders
he served under: Andrew Peacock, John Hewson and
Alexander Downer."
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