Simco, No good preaching the ultra conservative gospel to me. It is ruining people everywhere started by the excesses of the BUSH administration. Keating did some good things but let the economy overheat with ridiculously high interest rates and paid the price. So dont know what you are going on about.
Re the stock market I am talking about the machinations of the corporate sector, including the merchant bankers who created their pyramid financial schemes that are collapsing all over the world. I am also talking about the underfunding of the regulators responsible for preventing the very things that are happening now. The vultures that wont roll over financial arrangements and are sending companies to the wall. Yet these same people expect taxpayer guarantees and bailouts. These were the mates of the libs and I am certain that regulations are going to be tightened by Rudd to reign these bods in. I only wish it could be retrospective.
AND all the money spent by Howard on IRAQ to please his mate George that put brave Australian servicemen at risk. Simco to have a situation where even Howard was booted out of Parliament not just government surely must indicate there were CONSIDERABLE shortcomings.