kevin rudds attack on john howard, page-59

China are paying for our bottlenecks more so than we are!
The old argument that 20 million people should have been able to keep with demand powered the 9+% growth of a economy containing 1 billion people is laughable.

I've also read that Howard was too generous and irresponsible with tax breaks. So which one is it, too much or too little?

"Government can only contribute to the economy is so many ways as it is largely market driven but you say by doing nothing, just hoarding cash and allowing private and state debt to escalate is good economics."

Maybe I have misunderstood but isn't the above more applicable to Rudd with his reductions in spending and the hoarding of 20 bill of surplus?