Howard, enemy of the worker

medusala

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The idiot journalist who wrote the below article must be put against a wall and shot. We all know that Howard only looks after the big end of town and has vindictively driven down wages and conditions for the working man. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Goebbels lives.

From the SMH
Since Howard took office, unemployment has fallen by a third, from 8.2 per cent to 5.6. In the past decade, the net wealth of Australian households has grown by 120 per cent to an average of $250,000 a person as house prices have doubled and the sharemarket has reached record highs. This is the strongest decade of wealth creation in the 40 years that comparable records have been kept.

But it is not only asset prices that have delivered prosperity. Incomes have risen too, and, contrary to the common claim that low-income Australia has been left out, all income groups have enjoyed a surprisingly uniform rise of 20 to 25 per cent in average household incomes over the past decade.
Howard's election campaign gave great prominence to the fact that average real wages during the 8 years of his Government had risen by 13 per cent, whereas they had risen by only 3 per cent in the 13 years of Hawke-Keating.
 

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The point is, despite the allegations by many on the left that Howard is interested in concentrating wealth in the hands of an elite few, the population as a whole has in fact never been better off.
 

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Tim56 said:
The point is, despite the allegations by many on the left that Howard is interested in concentrating wealth in the hands of an elite few, the population as a whole has in fact never been better off.
Australians would have been much better off if Howard hadn't wasted so much of the projected surplus on a multi-billion dollar vote buying spree. Missed one of the few perfect opportunities in history to deliver meaningful tax cuts and get the top rate down to under 40c.
 

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Australians would have been much better off if Howard hadn't wasted so much of the projected surplus on a multi-billion dollar vote buying spree. Missed one of the few perfect opportunities in history to deliver meaningful tax cuts and get the top rate down to under 40c.
I'm actually hoping he renegs on some of those bribes.
 
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