garrett admits he is dumb, page-88

Smiler says:

"Only a government of sound economic ability can go close to guaranteeing Australians of sufficient services such as medical, education, security, policing, transport, etc."

I'd like to refute that hilarious, spurious and
pompous assertion on several grounds.

The Liberals didn't cause the minerals boom
that's responsible for much of our recent
prosperity - they simply stuck their big
tax snouts into it and sucked in huge
great gobs of filthy lucre from it.

Having sucked in billions and billions more
than Treasury forecasts, like the Disney
character Scrouge MacDuck, Howard put
the cash into his bank vault and ran his
fingers through it gleefully day after day while
patting himself on the back as the World's
Greatest Money Manager.

Meanwhile, out where the real people live
far from the pampered green lawns of
Kirribilli House and Parliament House
where Howard had the walls of his private
dining room and private jet coverered
with hideously expensive imported silk
wallpaper...

... service deprivation was rife.

Why? Service deprivation is Howard's
punishment for Aussie citizens having
voted Labor in state/territory elections.

As punishment, Howard would *not*
part with any of his ill-gotten loot for
badly-needed upgrades in basic state
and territory public services until the
Labor state and territory governments
ageeed to hand their constitutional
powers over to Howard so Howard
could get the pomp and glory for
services upgrades - not Labor
Premiers and Chief Ministers.

Howard is a very sick and twisted little
chappy with a hugely overblown idea
of how important he is to the nation.

Howard is also a very spiteful little chappy.
His ministers dare not stand up to him
for fear of totalitarian retrubition.

Tony Abbott is the most worshipful of
Howard's fawning ministers and Howard
treats Abbott with the aristocratic scorn
that such a grovelling flunky deserves.

A tiny example of Abbott's
self-abnegation to enhance
his master's PR image:

Abbott was due to shine at a Press
Club health debate in Canberra
but Howard needed Abbott as
as silent store dummy and set
dressing while Howard hogged
the media limelight during a
Howard launch of a health
announcement - so Abbott
did as he was told and
became a silent store
dummy and was made
to look like a total
goose when he
turned up late
for the big
Press Club
debate!

But that's not the worst of Abbott's
spineless store-dummy faults.

Because Howard hates the Doctors Union
(the AMA) Abbott is under instructions
from Howard *not* to negotiate a long
overdue compromise on reducing the
'gap' between Medicare's scheduled
fees (for a range of medical services)
and what Howard's AWA-inspired
idea about what doctors *should*
get to maintain their practices.

So what has been happening out in the
real world as a result of 11 years
of cruel and incompetent Liberal
mismanagement and misrule?

Joe and Mary Average have a son
Billy Average. Billy gets stung by
a wasp and his partents want
the swelling checked out.

But first they check the family
finances but as Joe is on an
AWA, family finances are
in a terrible way.

Big family dilemma!

Do they take Billy to their
local GP and have to fork out
$50 for a consultation, get
a receipt and then drive to
a Medicare office, pay
parking fees and then
stand in line to get
Tony Abbot's $25
idea of what a
GP is worth?

OR do they take Billy to their local
hospital and wait several hours to
have Billy checked out FOR FREE
in an Emergency Department that
has been so spitefully deprived
of proper funding by John Howard
that in a nearby toilet a woman
is having a misarriage alone
and unattended because the
citizens of NSW had the
collosal cheek to vote
for a Labor state govenment
and therefore needed to be
punished by John Howard while
his store-dummy Heath Minister
sits by and twiddles his fingers!

There is something incredibly sick
and twisted about the Howard
government and no amount
of razzle-dazzle PR hype
can cure Power Disease.