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petemack@ozemail.com.au (Peter Mackay) wrote:

(chomp)

>Glad he's not running the country then.  He'd promise us L.A.W. tax cuts,
>but if you read between the lines, you'd see he really didn't mean it.

Ahem, I thought I'd stay out of this thread, BUT!

What about the pre-election promises by the new regime?

- no significant public service job cuts?
- no cuts to childcare places?
- no cuts to childcare allowance?
- no timed local calls? (just wait for this one - it'll affect all
private net users in Australia)
- and last but not least, no new taxes, no new G.S.T. ("It's not a GST
by another name, it's a tariff" and that other gem - referring to the
disarmament tax (Costello on Sunday, today "It's not a tax, it's a
one-off levy"). 

Is there a credability gap here?  I know that there is with me.  IMHO
you are a fool if you trust the new regime to be any better than the
old. 

>At least Lord Kim seems honest.  With him, what he says is what you get.

Give him time. He's less conceited than PJK ever was, granted.

>However, I heard Ray ask the question, and I didn't hear Keato answer that
>he'd resign if he lost, nor did I see him crossing his fingers, smiling
>knowingly, rubbing his nose or any of the other bits of body language you
>might associate with a white lie.  In fact he looked completely serious. 
>How far between the lines should I have been looking?

He's a politician.  If you expect him or any like him from either side
to implicitly tell the truth every time then you will be disappointed
again and again.  They aren't there to tell the truth.  They are there
to serve their country as best they see fit, and if that means telling
a few porkies now and then, well, *most* of us expect that of them.
Granted, it isn't ethical.  But it would seem by the repetitious
nature of their fibbery that it is legal.

Regards, Andrew Boyd
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