I did not vote for rudd either.
Look. I dont know the future or how he and his party will handle leading this country ahead.
But what I do know is this: His party and what they stand for, and how they go about things, and the way in which they reach their goals, and indeed their goals themsevles, are IN NO WAY agreeable to myself.
I think this decision was a shortsighted and poor one.
Rudd became elected because he was "trendy".
Rugby league will be with us forevermore - an institution.
Much talk is about interest rates at the moment, but what everyone fails to realise is that before the Howard Govt came to be, interest rates were 17%. Yeah, double what they are now.
My third paragraph stands up to some big opposition. Its not so much Rudd, its the entire Labour bulldust. The entire party and their core beliefs are a joke....the people behind rudd and around rudd are not the kind of people you want running a country. If you are a member of a Union, you helped bring down John Howard, because Union fees directly contributed to the advertising blitz that rudd got in on.
I will bring this back to rugby league soon, but this all relates....Unions people....the very ones who are anti-competitive and anti-productive....because Unions demand through their very nature that as a business a company has to increase costs in the long run because Unions demand that people are paid more for essentially THE SAME amount of production. Safe environments to work in aside, Unions are evil.
If you work in a labour job and you work hard, you are providing maximum value already to an employer, unless you yourself go and get better skilled to do more in your day to day working life (but how many people do that?)
Now, not only is that a crippling effect over decades on productivity and wages (equalling same company output for less profits which on a world scale equals less competitive and worse-off economy) but it is also useless because workers need to pay a Union to do a job they should be able to do themselves, but the simple fact is a BETTER METHOD of doing things is individual contracts....more efficient and the cream rises to the top.
Across the world now govts and people are moving away from Unions because of this....it takes decades to realise, but its there....Union systems cripple economies and make your life worse!
Anyway, if you think a govt that believes the above is going to make our economy better
then you are seriously mis-guided.
Your quality of life will suffer.
And look at league, its suffered already because we wont be able to invest in our future or help our kids...
