Compared to what's *really* going on out in the real world, Howard and Costello prattling on about locust plagues descending on Australia is we dare to vote for the union-controlled Labor Party is Tom-Foolery of the highest order.
Meanwhile, out in the real world:
Inflation is beginning to turn paper money and paper assets into confetti, and that's when *real* estate begins to come into its own as people unload their paper and seek a real haven.
When the cost of Bush's war on Iraq passes the one *trillion* dollar mark - after he bribed US voters with tax cuts to get re-elected when he should be hitting voters with tax hikes for the war (not cranking up the dollar-note printing presses) that's when *real* estate seems more solid that confetti on a windy day at a country wedding in Texas.
While we chatter about money ever so politely (since as we're middle class and not dreadful unionists or child molesters who vote for the ALP) there is a mammoth gorilla that nobody wants to talk about during the 2007 Aussie election campaign sitting slap-dab in every Aussie's aspirational lounge room.
The name of that huge gorilla is "Sowing Evil and Reaping Evil":
