OzOne wrote:

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:32:46 +0930, Flying Tadpole
scribbled thusly:

Dear oh dear Oz, what you didn't quote from the same newspaper
were the statements that following Mr Latham's "Troops home by
Christmas" on the run policy, Howard had comprehensively defeated
that policy at the start of the election campaign, which is why
it didn't appear in the Labor campaign too! Nor did you quote
that (paraphrased), despite half or more the poluation deciding
in hindsight that the Irag war should not have been entered into,
nevertheless when push comes to shove, the majority trust Howard
to make the right decision...

Dear oh dear Taddy, you still don't see that it was the Howard
interest scare campaign that won for them.
Do you know that in my electorate there was a 3.4% swing to Labour?
The majority here are virtually debt free and cashed up....they didn't
fear interest rate hikes, and instead looked at the real issues...a
budget that was totally unbalanced, health care, schools and foreign
policy. snip

Yes indeed! How dare they be concerned about things that don't
matter like the roof above their head? Those selfish aspirational
voters out in the mortgage belt should go back to packing cases
and stop their stupid attempts to better themselves. They just
don't know their place, do they. They should know that generating
mortgages, overdrafts and other debt is simply not the way to
eventual financial success. Why, if they keep that up, some of
them might end up quite well off in the long run, and come and
live in the eastern suburbs with us who have it all already, but
who of course have never aspired to anything and never used debt
to get to their current blissful well-moneyed state. That really
would lower the tone, wouldn't it.

Flying Tadpole
Vineyard labourer (ret'd)



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