Kerry O'Brian election night gaffe

Swing to who?

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[Jubei66666]

Best part of the broadcast

[anchorman87]

second most exciting part of the night. soooo hope max scrappes in.

[MrSystematica]

and dooooown goeeees joooohhhhnny!

[binghlcrosby]

Gillard smug biatch ...

I'd take Costello over you any day of the week!!!

[BlackLabelEric]

@toddles9 Y2K was not unfounded paranoia.

Yes, some people were idiots and overdid it massively, but a huge amount of work went into converting countless old systems to use 4 digit dates. Y2K was a large and legitimate problem, and the only reason people don't recognize this is because they have no idea how much work had to be done in 1999 to prevent future problems.

[bobsy49]

The sale of Telstra paid off the deficit.

[toddles9]

@richspur2004 I don't think the GST did pay off the deficit directly. But it did bring more money in which freed up other money to enable us to pay it off.

Negative speculation IS scare-mongering. Saying ''if we do that, people might end up starving on the streets'' is a scare tactic similar to those that some governments use to control us. Remember the unfounded paranoia over the AIDS epidemic? Y2K? People were terrified of them because of what 'might' (didn't) happen.

[richspur2004]

@toddles9 I get that you think the stimulus was a good idea. I keep repeating it because your making comments about speculation. I wouldn't want that speculation to turn into reality.

[richspur2004]

@toddles9 It was, but that raises the further question: How did the GST pay off the deficit?

It's not scare mongering. Private demand in the building and construction industry fell dramatically and we were looking at a very nasty situation had the government done nothing.

Off the top of my head, here's some Liberal Positives:

- Kept regulations tight on the banks

- Kept the compulsory super system (although they should've taken it to 15%)

- Gun Control

- Restored ANZAC day

[toddles9]

@richspur2004 Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the GST given back to state governments anyway?

[toddles9]

@richspur2004 ' we might have been looking at 15% unemployment in that industry alone'

Might have? More speculation. I don't know why you keep bringing this up. I already said (2x) that giving out the money was the right thing to do. He gave out the money and that's that. It's history. Why go on about things that might've happened when they didn't? It's scare-mongering.

You seem to be of the belief that everything Liberal does is wrong and everything Labor does is right.

[richspur2004]

@toddles9 I can tell you right now, that when private demand dropped in the building and construction sector, had the government done nothing, we might have been looking at 15% unemployment in that industry alone (That's a lot of unemployed people).

Put simply, when private demand fell, public demand from the government worked like a set of shock absorbers which maintained our economic growth and stability while pretty much everywhere else in the world suffered tremendously.