In article , OzOne wrote:

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:52:28 +1100, Peter Wiley
scribbled thusly:


No they haven't , and they have done nothing about interest rates ,
those have reached a level consistent with rates the world over.
What our stupid Liberal voters have done is borrow heavily on the
equity in their homes.

That must make me an intelligent voter, then, as I own 2 of my 3
properties outright and the 3rd has a mortgage smaller than some of my
friends' credit card debts :-)

That's the way to do it Pete.


Any rise in interest rates will see them suffer
massive monthly repayments

Amen. I haven't forgotten Keating and 17% interest rates.

Yep, nor I, but the stupid Liberal voters believe that the high
interest rates were Keating fault when the whole world had high rates.
They also believe that the Libs brought rates down when in fact they
were just lucky enough to be in govt when world rates dropped.

All true but the ALP were also lucky that when Hawke & Keating wanted
to bring in economic reforms, the other mob supported them instead of
engaging in blind opposition for opposition sake. We'll see what
happens after July next year.

As a friend of mine said WRT the last election - "I resent the hell out
of having to vote for a hoplophobic, flak jacketed lying little rodent
who's ****ing our rights away because the other mob is so hopeless".
Labor woulda won if they'd had some half decent policies & candidates.
As I told one of the ALP apparatchiks, you can win on good policies and
bad salesmanship, or bad policies and good salesmanship, but you're SOL
with bad policies *and* people who couldn't sell beer in a desert.
Ability to climb thru the ALP machine doesn't translate into ability to
sell policies to the punters. Too many apparatchiks who've no clue
about the working world I'm afraid.

Ah well, maybe next time, I hope.

PDW