lol....Ok..so your good with math..."Howard left Rudd a 750 bill...

lol....Ok..so your good with math..."Howard left Rudd a 750 bill surplus."....Can you provide a link??...I'll help though....

"The Budget delivered on 8 May 2007 by the Hon. Peter Costello MP is the twelfth under the Howard Government and the twelfth brought down by the current Treasurer. All but two of these have been surplus budgets (as measured by the underlying cash balance).1 In cash terms, the latest Budget has an underlying surplus of $10.6 billion,"

Source: Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Parliamentary Library RESEARCH BRIEF Information analysis and advice for the Parliament 21 May 2007, no. 12, 2006–07, ISSN 1832-2883 Budget Review 2007–08

as to Howards economic credentialls...from Ruperts Rag...

"It is ironic that the big spending of the Howard government didn’t save it from losing the 2007 election to another supposed fiscal conservative, Kevin Rudd. Indeed, it could well have been that his fiscal prolificacy played a part in Howard’s election loss as voters lost faith in his economic credentials."

Source: The Australian...
How Howard's last budget planted the seeds of deficit

• By PHIL LEWIS
• BUSINESS SPECTATOR
• 12:24AM MAY 9, 2013