Yes, I know it's politics...

[mahhrat]

So I cut it.

Comments

[spreckenstein]

I think you are personalising the process too much and making HIM your target. Governments exist off tax. They always want more. they can pretend to charge you less, or juggle shit around, but in the end they will always want more. it does NOT matter who is in power. they all need tax to be able to do shit. I think the main issue is that lending money to buy things like houses requires you to have some sort of stability in these areas which no political party can give you for 30 years or how ever long you've got your loan for. its out of their reach. they only think in individual terms

[mahhrat]

I understand your first point and you may well be right, however we're encouraged by the political process to think that way. Past Rudd, Gillard and Turnbull, I couldn't fill up two hands with the other politicians, and last I knew there were well over 200 between Federal, State & Local.

Hell, I'd lay even money he didn't even write the whole thing.

The entire flow of information is tailored to do one thing - buy money and votes.

And that's exactly why it's so scary.

These people should be working to DECREASE their influence in our lives, not the other way around.

[unas_slayer]

There's no such thing as a global economic crisis. We control the markets, not some little financial fairy, and if people, ie the media, would shut the fuck up about it, you'd start to notice a difference.

[unas_slayer]

Also, his financial stimulus packages are a load of shit. I would have expected a fucking christian to understand the whole "give a man a fish" theory.

[mahhrat]

The thing I really saw 'red' over is the bailouts. The biggest problem with the sub-prime mortgage thing which tipped this whole shebang over the edge was the regulations that allowed such trading to go ahead in the first place.

Govt interference contributed a lot more than either side of politics will admit, so now we need more govt interference to solve it?