All fixed! That was bloody easy

To blow the budget surplus.

Says it all about Labor economic 'management'. You should never let the latte-sippers near the levers of Australias economy; they just can't help themselves from screwing it up.

Digger,

Cranbourne

Luckily for the Government, non-core John had created his first fictitious "surpluses" by moving Government unfunded liabilities off the books. Rudd is not stupid, he knows a good thing when it is handed to him on a platter - there is no actual surplus. Australia is bankrupt.

Ain't nothin fixed. Ain't nothin gettin better fer no price. Y'all Aussies is gonna pay pay pay, yessiree. Gona pay more taxes. Gonna pay with job firings. Gonna pay with a deflated Aussie Buck.

Thar Wall Street Journal say you Aussies is in Bad shape, boy. You's in the baddest shape of all the civilized nations. Even worse off than Franch and Germany.

Suck it up, boys and girls, cuz sasquatch rats and skank possum is 'bout what y'all be eatin when you gotta catch food with darts and arrows.

Oi! Digger! Didn't you read Max's post below? Australia's foreign debt has topped $1 trillion! And it didn't just happen since Rudd got elected, you silly old duffa!

Hold onto your hats. The Oz Household debt ("mums and dads", sheeple etc.) is not far from totalling two trillion dollars - mostly house loans plus credit card debt. At the end of the Howard/Costello debacle, the sheeple were borrowing merely to pay ordinary household bills. That debt is not ever going to go away.

For some strange reason the markets keep sliding lower. Can't imagine what has gone wrong - plundering the public purse has always worked a treat all those other times...

'bout what's goin on, Cynical. Let me tell you. See, when all them greedy people suck up cheap stocks fer cheap prices, that makes them prices jump up like jack rabbits.

Thems people see they just made a heap of free money, and thar Jew-Banker screams "sell, sell, sell". So, they's all sell makin them a pile of cash.

That's how it works.