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Mr Rudd has become our own financial historical revisionist. Apparently Mr Rudd’s problems are caused by the fact that the Coalition Government left him a $20 billion surplus and $45 billion in the bank. That is not a bad problem to have, being flushed with funds, when you come into government.

It is almost pythonesque that Mr Rudd is blaming the legacy left by the Coalition Government for Labor’s $256 billion dollars in gross debt.
 It is very fortunate that his pets Abby and Jasper are not in the room or no doubt they would have collected some of the blame. For every problem he has got, Mr Rudd’s standard line has now become that Mr Howard, Mr Costello or ‘Chewy’ did it.
Unfortunately for Mr Rudd, Mr Rudd has caused Mr Rudd’s problems.
Many Australians would have collapsed on the ground laughing at Mr Rudd giving his advice on how everything would be fine by 2050. The reality is Mr Rudd that at the end of the day, quite unsurprisingly, a lot of us will be dead in 2050. If that’s your definition of things being better, then I’ve got some really serious concerns about where we are now.
It is unbelievable that he is talking about tightening the belt when he has orchestrated the greatest spending spree in the history of Australia. It is very similar to the town drunk giving advice to the Temperance League on healthy living.
Mr Rudd, you cannot blame the Coalition for balancing the books. That is not the problem; the problem is that you can not. You still have not provided an exit plan for now, beyond a wondrous desire that somehow things will get better in the future. You have to stop talking about what is going to happen in the afterlife and start dealing with the problems we have now.
You need to at least peg the debt to a point and show the path of how you are going to reduce the debt in believable and concrete terms that the majority of Australians will hopefully live to see.
Mr Rudd, I want to quote a very recent Australian Prime Minister to you ‘The buck stops with you.’
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# Anonymous
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:35 AM
http://topsy.com/tb/bit.ly/6WRQig
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:15 PM
Mr. Joyce,

If only I could vote for you or your party, sadly I am in Liberal territory not National. The Nationals are providing unity and guts against Labor, something sorely needed and lacking from the Libs!
# Ian Whisker
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:22 PM
Senator,
Great stuff. I can't understand why Mr Krudd remains so popular.
# Lorikeet
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:43 PM
Unbelievable!

Everyone knows that the Coalition helped to rack up a huge foreign debt under Howard, and before him Paul Keating (Labor) was the culprit. Howard's talk of a surplus was only in his own mind.

To my knowledge, Australia's gross foreign debt is now in excess of $1.4 trillion.
# Campbell Swift
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:20 PM
Very good! Presume that you will be adding the pledge which Mr Rudd made to his friends at Copenhagen, as well as the potential cost of becoming a republic. Plus whatever is next from Mister Rudd!
# Lorraine Huggins
Friday, January 22, 2010 11:42 PM
Hi Barnaby,
I was listening to Alan Jones interviewing Tim Wilson on Tues. 19th.
http://www.2gb.com/index.php?option=com_podcasting&task=view&id=2&Itemid=41
Title: The Implication of the Copenhagen meeting.
I thought that there was not a legal binding commitment, but is it true that we are part of the $100 Billion dollars that America mentioned in Copenhagen? Rudd has been silent about Copenhagen (silent on everything) if this is true, how on earth are we going to pay back not only Australia's debt, but this commitment as well? I don't understand why we are not being told about what is going on, if what Alan Jones and Tim Wilson was saying is in fact true, then everybody should know exactly what Rudd did over there. What else aren't we being told.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:26 AM
Arrest Rudd and co and jail them.
# Moo
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:11 AM
I agree ,

The Frustration is too much

It is time to State loud and Clear on a daily basis

"NO MORE

NO MORE

NO MORE!!!!!!!"
# Marjorie Wisby
Friday, January 29, 2010 12:41 PM
This country was far better when we were rudderless. Let's hope this will again be the case in the not too distant future.

If the ALP continues on it's current path for much longer, I am glad to know that I am unlikely to be around much longer. I don't fancy living in a Third World country.

Marjorie N Wisby
# Marcus
Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:30 AM
fools
# Larry
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:58 PM
People have to start understanting how money is put in circulation I have put an article by a person called Byron Dale (it's american but still applicable to us) that may prompt people to start questioning and researching our debt based money system
"The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity"
Abraham Lincoln
"Until the control and issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of sovereignty of Parliment and of democracy is idle and futile.....Once a nation parts with control of its credit, it matters not who makes the nation's laws... Usury once in control will wreck any nation".
William Lyon Mackenzie King - Prime Minister of Canada who nationalized the Bank of Canada

OUR FLAWED MONEY SYSTEM IS FAILING

Economists, bankers and most government leaders choose not to discuss a very significant mathematical flaw in our present money system. The flaw is that under our present money system all money is created by the banking system and put into circulation as interest-bearing loans. This process makes it mathematically impossible to repay the loaned principal plus the incurred interest because when all the money is created as loans, only the principal is created-never the interest. There is simply no way to create the additional money needed to pay the interest incurred by the loan. Money does not grow.
Only the principal is created by the loan. The principal is uncreated when it is
repaid. When the interest comes due, the debt becomes greater than the money supply! A SHORTAGE OF MONEY IS CREATED THAT CONSTANTLY GROWS. Time and Interest always makes the debt grow but neither makes the money supply grow! Money does not grow. The money supply only increases with more loan creation. This ‘SHORTFALL’ between the money created and the debt owed creates a constant and growing spread between the prices of raw products and the prices of finished products. It causes ever-growing pressure to reduce the cost of wages paid to workers. Interest is always a cost of doing business. It must be paid or the bank forecloses on the loan and takes your business away from you. Therefore the cost of interest must be added to the price of finished goods, or you must find a way to cut your wage expenses or the cost of your raw materials. This ‘SHORTFALL’ is the reason that we have ever growing debts by government, business and individuals even though everything is produced as an asset.
This shortfall is not a sign of bad management; it is simply mathematically
impossible to pay both the principal and the interest, because under our present money system there is no way to create the money need to pay the interest. That is why the total debt constantly grows. The interest can only be paid with property through foreclosure.
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOUR LIFE
Our current money system affects us in very subtle but negative ways. It deceives us into living a life of illusion. We are taught that we must all gain a monetary profit from our business and our labor and that we must save some of that monetary profit for the future or invest it to earn more monetary profit. It’s obvious from the facts that everything is produced as wealth, yet in producing all wealth we are more than $40 trillion in monetary
debt! That makes it impossible to collectively have a monetary profit and savings. Imagine that we start with no money. 10 people borrow $100 each creating a total money supply of $1000. How can each save $10 and pay back $110 each, a total of $1200 when the money supply is still only $1000? How can each of the 10 people gain a monetary profit of $10 on their borrowed 100? Doing so would mean that each person would have
$110 or a total of $1100 with a total money supply only $1000! This could only be made possible with an increase in the money supply. But, the money supply is only increased by more borrowing at interest! It’s mathematically impossible for all to save and profit. A few can, but only at the expensive of many. Would like to live in a world where you could only have a family if some one else lost their family? This how our money world
works! It’s hard to imagine how a few in the Banking system have deceived so many of our Nation’s people. Thanks to illusion deceptively sold to the people over decades and the cost of interest and taxes, Americans now live under a constantly rising cost-of-living and a constantly growing fear that they may lose their job to some one who can be hired for lower wages.
A Credit money system ensures that the cost-of-living will rise to nmanageable levels
for greater numbers of people. The switch to a Credit money system created the need for a safety net like Social Security and other costly, unworkable tax funded social programs. Our Credit money system insures that most, if not all businesses will sooner or later fail or be forced to restructure. Our Credit money system forces us use products of lower and lower quality or forces us to pay to very high prices for good quality products. In a monetary system where money is created and put into circulation as interest-bearing loans only the principal is created-never the interest. The principal is debt and can be used as a medium-of-exchange. Interest is debt but it is never created. It cannot be used as a medium-of-exchange. When the principal is repaid it is extinguished. It no longer
exists until another loan is created. Currently, all money is debt but not all debt is money. Once a spends what he has borrowed, he must capture someone else’s loan principal in the process of commerce to repay the loan plus the interest on the loan. This causes an EXPONENTIAL GROW OF DEBT THAT WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE AGAIN START PUTTING ALL NEW MONEY INTO CIRCULATION DEBT FREE.Americans have a collective total debt of more than $40 Trillion. The MI money supply is less than $1.5 Trillion. At just 6 A.P.R., the debt by 2016 will have grown to the point
that the annual interest due will be more than the total consumer income! The interest on this unpaid debt continues to grow and gets added to the costs of living.
It is our hope that you will join the growing movement to once again have all new money put into circulation debt-free and demand the Reform of Our Money System.

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