The Labor Party; Another reason they are fucked

[Spiff]

I feel like banning you because you just plain bug me, Dan. But I won't because I'm a nice guy.

 

[Shannow]

he won't be back for three days I reckon....doesn't come here all the time

 

[Dän]

Back on topic please Shannow

 

[phlogiston]

I feel like banning you because you just plain bug me, Dan. But I won't because I'm a nice guy.

Don't do that, it's only these policiamally type threads that there seems to be any angst, and that's kinda the point of the threads anyway. Every other thread seems to be getting along without too much brouhaha.

 

[Shannow]

Back on topic please Shannow

OK, so how does carbon trading not increase prices under Johnny, but is economic catastrophe, with skyrocketting energy prices when Labor suggest such trading ?

 

[Winmar]

The cost of beer has gone up by 15% in the last 11yrs.

In 1997 the average price for a pot in Melbourne was $2. Now it's $3.50-$3.80.

 

[Stonewall]

That's about 75% yeah? It's pretty annoying when you go to the pub and order a pint and it costs about half a six-pack of the same beer.

 

[Winmar]

Yep, it's fucked! If I'm planning on a big night I have as much as possible before I go out these days. Christ it's expensive to drink here.

 

[Goreripper]

OK, so how does carbon trading not increase prices under Johnny, but is economic catastrophe, with skyrocketting energy prices when Labor suggest such trading ?

Because Labor is evil. Oh yeah, I just remember that when Howard was Treasurer, the home loan interest rate was 13.5%. That's just under twice what it is now, but back the average wage was half what it is now. So these days, wages are twice as high and home loan rates are twice as low. While that sounds like a good thing for Howard, it's actually not, because the erosion of social services like Medicare and the GST has made everything else more expensive also, so people have even less savings now than they did back then. My parents could afford to keep two boys at school and run two cars while paying off a mortgage at the same time in 1983, all on a combined income of about $40,000. I make a fuckload more than that, only have one car and am renting. I can't even think about buying a house because we wouldn't be able to afford petrol (which has gone up in price 500% since '83), health care, or child care. Or food.
But Dan will ignore this post, because it mentions how crap a Treasurer Howard was.

 

[Southy]

But inflation and CPI take care of it all mate....sure inflation is 400%, but your wage has gone up 2%, stop moaning

 

[Dän]

You dick, inflation is under 3% and nominal wages have reason by 4

 

[Shannow]

Dan, your spelling is (consistently) worse than your economics.

Now why is carbon trading the death of the economy under labor, and the saviour under Howard ?

 

[Shannow]

BTW, by inflation, do you mean "CPI"...the standard basket of goods, or the infrastructure of the nation which relies on steel, coal, oil, and minerals (i.e. "mining boom") on which our country has experienced the recent prosperity and localised increase in wages that are associated with it ?

Who benefited from the mining boom ?

people on $45,000 p.a., or the banks and investors ?