What I find truly amazing is that Labor is likely to substantially boost their polling and their chances of winning the election if they boot out Gillard and replace her with Rudd.
People must have very short memories if they’re now going to throw their support behind a man who as PM was incompetent in the extreme and very unpopular with the electorate. So unpopular in fact that Labor was headed for a landslide defeat if they stuck with Rudd, which is precisely the reason they got rid of him.
Any voter willing to put Rudd into the top job for a second time must be naïve in the extreme.
Read below to see Rudd’s track record as PM.....it’s a nightmare of epic proportions.
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No matter who wins – we all lose.
It is easy to forget that it was Kevin Rudd who got us into the fiscal mess we are now in in the first place: Julia might have kept digging, but it was Kevin who dug the hole.
Don’t believe me? Have a look at Kevin’s track record.
It was Kevin who utterly destroyed our nation’s finances by taking a budget surplus and turning it into a $27 billion deficit in just one year. In two years, it reached a mind-blowing $60 billion.
It was Kevin who brought our Industrial Relations system back to the 1960’s – his Cabinet actually over-ruling Julia Gillard who wanted a more business-friendly system.The result? Plummeting international competitiveness, small business closures up 48%,and record numbers crippling strikes across Australia.
It was Kevin who depressed the economy by bringing in failed tax after failed tax after failed tax. Remember the alcopops tax, which led to teenagers binge-drinking on spirits? The Mining Tax Mark 1, which would have crippled the most productive sector of our economy? The Superannuation Tax Hike? There is one thing all economists agree on: you don’t raise taxes in an economic downturn. Kevin Rudd hiked taxes not once, buteleven times.
And as for Kevin Rudd’s so-called stimulus, no credible economist – certainly no-one outside the Labor Cheerleaders in the ABC and Fairfax press and some hard-left taxpayer funded academics – believe it did anything but flush our money down the gurgler. In fact, Treasury got so desperate to pretend it helped, they got caught out faking the numbers in “Stimulusgate” by Professor Sinclair Davidson from RMIT! For a detailed peer-reviewed Analysis shredding Treasury modelling on the stimulus, I’d advise you to read our Deputy Director John Humphreys in the prestigious ANU journalAgenda)
In fact, even The Australian Treasury and the Parliamentary Budget Offices have now admitted that the deficit is structural, unsustainable, and the result of massive over-spending – all done by the Rudd Government.
And if you think Julia Gillard’s plan to censor the media was bad, Kevin Rudd wanted tocensor the entire internet!
And this isn’t even going into the debacles of pink batts, school halls, grocery watch, and what Kevin Rudd did to our nation’s borders.
Of course, Julia Gillard took all of this, and made it worse with a tax on carbon dioxide, more spending, and more waste – but at its core, the rot began with Rudd. As I said – no matter who wins this week, we all lose.
Sadly, it seems all our media care about is who occupies the top job – not what they do once they are there.
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