Smiler trots out his mile-long listof his antipathies against...

Smiler trots out his mile-long list
of his antipathies against Labor.

But when push comes to shove
on 24 November 'Smiler' will
get one vote and so will I.

Our votes will devour each
other in the ballot box
thereby creating a
massive fat Zero
for both sides.

Ain't democracy grand! (vbg!)

On the bright side, it's raining in Canberra
home to thousands of public servants
and decent folk as well who *earn*
their pay and don't have gold-
plated super schemes like
the shiney-bums do!

A little story about the greatest
Great Economic Manager of
all time - John Howard.

To impress voters who loathe
public servants that he hated
them even more - he cut a
swathe through their ranks
making thousands redundant.

Redundancy payments cost
taxpayers *millions* more
than had he simply put a hiring
freeze in place and let natural
attrition (retirements, deaths
job-changing etc) proceed.

But he wanted *instant* blood
and the sad part was it was
your wallet that did the
bleeding - not his!

Howard loathes anything with
the word 'public' in front of it.

When the AMP and NRMA
were 'de-socialised' who
got the cash - we did.

When Howard de-socialises
a public asset who gets
the cash - Howard does.

A lovely swindle - provided
voters blindly keep voting
for a kid-caging swindler!

Now we come to Public Buildings
and here I have to declare a
pecuniary interest - I have
profited handsomely from
one of Howard's swindles.

How the scam works is this:

Over many decades, wise governments
(of both hues) had built up a portfolio
of Canberra office blocks to house the
thousand of public servants that keep
the wheels of govenment turning.

But Howard *loathes* public anything
and he loves instant cash to use to
bribe voters with to vote Liberal.

So he holds a fire-sale of public
buildings many of which were
snapped up by syndicators.

I took up an 'interest' in a sydicate run
by what is now the Brisbane-based
Cromwell Group who leased the
building back to John Howard for
a net return to me of 11% pa.

Nice work if you can get it - but
to enable punters like me to
profit at taxpayer expense,
some dimwits need to elect
John Howard - Australia's
kid-caging public swindler!

In 9 years time, the millions
(in vote bribing cash) that
Howard got will have gone
up in smoke and rents will
most likely have doubled
in Canberra.

But it gets worse!

The Liberals are supposed to stand
for 'small government' which is
why (on taking office) they paid
out millions to cut a swathe
though PS ranks - to show
how much they hate public
servants.

But the probem is Howard is
not a Liberal - he's a national
socialist in a $2,000 Liberal suit.

So he begins passing laws for a
GST we were 'never ever' going
to have inflicted on us and AWA
laws to grind wages into the dirt
and he drags us into Bush's war
on Iraq and Afghanistan and he
decides to make a Big Fellah of
himself in nearby Pacific nations.

So guess what?

Howard begins *Re-Hiring* thouands
of despised public servants and
contractors needed to manage
all the paper-work associated
with his Grand Master Plans.

But he has no office blocks
or secure military buildings
in which to house them
because (remember) he
sold many PS buildings
(at rock-bottom prices)
to grubby profiteers
like (Omigod) Graham.

So he what does Howard do.

He *pays* other profiteers
to build office blocks and
a new 'Theatre of War' HQ
on Canberra's outskirts
so he can rent them back
from the profiteers at
huge annual rents at
YOUR expense.

To quote from a song from 'Lil Abner':

The country is in the very best of hands!
The best of hands, the best of hands!

Vote for John Howard - the world's
Greatest Economic Manager! (vbg!)

I gave this couple a picture
I took of John Howard and
told them he was hoping
to be re-elected as the
the world's Greatest
Economic Manager:

the 'worm'