'Not Happy John!' Summed up what the Australian public felt as they voted Kevin in 07. It's been almost half a year now since Kevin became the 26th prime minister of Australia and appointed Australia's second most sexiest woman Julia Gillard as second in command. So the question remains, what has K-Rudd done for the Aussie battler? The good news is he hasn't done jack. Apart from having a 2020 summit hosted by Kate Blanchet, where supposedly smart people got the chance to add their 2-cents on issues the common man could care less about. No one gives a hairy monkey's balls about climate change, aborigines sniffing petrol and/or arts and culture, when the cost of living is shooting off like a cheap Chinese sky-rocket.
Thanks to rampant monopolies, grocery prices are so uncontrollably high that despite buying only home brand you still have to decide which two meals out of the recommended three a day you want to eat. Service stations running amok and raping the public in broad daylight. The housing and rental crisis reaching breaking point, with people having to choose between eating and living in a rat-infested sewer of a house, or paying a mortgage and surviving on dog-food. Banks increasing interest rates carte blanche. This is the horrific situation 80% of the Australians face today.
What has K-Rudd done to address these pressing issues? He's started heaps of commissions. From petrol and grocery commissions to "how many times a day do you fart" commissions. Basically he's done jack all, and jack has just taken the Greyhound to live in the outback with the Kangas, where it's a little cheaper. We need someone who'll take some action. Not go chasing japan about bloody whaling. Japan could kill and eat all the god-damn whales on the earth, build spaceships, go to some other galaxy, find a planet like earth, hunt kill and eat all the whales there, and I wouldn't give a Britney's shaved crotch. I'm struggling to pump petrol in my car, put food on my table and send my kids to child-care. "Hey Kev! Screw the whales pal, your people need you."
Tough times need tough old coots. Not mandarin speaking nancy boys, who talk nice and appear to try to please everyone, all the while reaming you anally with his small dick. To think that I voted for Kevin Rudd! I never thought I'd say this but 'Bring back the John!'
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"What has K-Rudd done to address these pressing issues? He's started heaps of commissions. From petrol and grocery commissions to "how many times a day do you fart" commissions. Basically he's done jack all, and jack has just taken the Greyhound to live in the outback with the Kangas, where it's a little cheaper."
So he's a jack of all trades then?
More seriously, the reality is that governments cant do much about fuel, grocery prices etc. Rudd was silly to pretend he could when he was in opposition, but what else could he do against a government that has a strong record when it came to economic growth, low unemployment, low interest rates, controlling inflation etc ?
He's still riding high in the polls, even if not as high as before. Which indicates that most ppl still haven't wizened up.
Well, with such huge surpluses, he could reduce the excise on fuel. Install empowered grocery watchdogs. Put pressure on banks to keep interest rates fixed (they are earning billions in profit). There are thousands of things he can do. unfortunately most of them involve a bit of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Unfortunately this might piss off the people who contridute to kevin's coffers.
Reducing excise on fuel will reduce tax revenue, which will reduce the budget surplus and put upward pressure on inflation and interest rates.
The ACCC already monitors grocery prices and investigates beaches of the Trade Practices Act. They have found nothing untoward. The rise in grocery prices probably has more to do with global food prices than anything else.
The government has already put pressure on banks, but that hasn't worked. And, the days of the planned economy are over, so governments cannot dictate prices or take over businesses. A better response would be to prohibit exit fees to introduce more competition between financial institutions, as I advocate here: http://leonbertrand.blogspot.com/2008/02/swan-threatens-we-say-do-much-more.html
Moreover, the task of continuing economic reform is required. The Government could start by listening to what business has to say: http://leonbertrand.blogspot.com/2008/02/bca-makes-demands-on-swan-clear.html
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