I am with Dave. I saw through the lies the economy was strong and prefered a government that could see the future was not sustainable. Whether they can reverse that trend is yet to be seen but clearly Howard et al were recipants of good fortune rather than creators of it.
Education was poor, you can see clearly that Australians are working poor as opposed to other nations where immigrants are the working poor. We import skills rather than invest in our own. There are some very good reasons to support skilled migration but as a cheaper way than up skilling those born here is not one of them.
Debt had been transferred to private from public so the government and the government amassed huge surplus rather than invest in the future wisely. Howard is on record before amassing this surplus that running up huge surplus is economic mismanagement - which it is.
If you actually spoke with regular people before the last election many did not agree they never had it so good. So you may think just because the Howard government said it so must be true, it was not and never has been. the rich got richer and poor got further into debt. Debt can only subsidise lifestyle for so long then..
So you go ahead and think just by saying everything is rosy is better for the economy then your choice..live in la la land.
I am not sure labor will be better with the economy, I voted for them based mainly on other criteria, however I never saw that Howard governemnt did anything of any real note. As they say the economy did more for Howard than Howard did for the economy.
