govt denies it broke promise on budget surplus, page-29

"I think governments should try to balance the books but I don't attach too much importance to whether or not they actually do."

That's ok, and I'm sure you have lots of mates. You and they apparently have no concept of the connection between rising cost of living and the deficit. You probably just blame the merchants.

Obviously you have no interest in stories like today'a about smart meters costing twice as much here as they do in Europe. (smh) Or our cars costing up to three times what the same cars cost in the US.

Or our fuel costing twice the US price.

All these costs are reflected at lower levels too of course. You must be extremely wealthy if these costs don't concern you, which is EXACTLY what you said when you acknowledged no interest in the deficit.