Kevin Dudd.
 

Will he be joining the ranks of the unemployed tonight?

We can only hope Dave.

Kevin Dudd - Tony Rabid .... who cares is only politics

It may not win me many friends in here but I was happy with the way he handled things when GFC hit, yes he did hand out alot of money, but doing so I think helped Australia not to go down the ****ter as far as a lot of other places did.
But this mine issue I think has hurt him alot harder than he thought it would.
Yes I was one of the under earning bogans who had stimulas money given to me - it was perfect timing for when I went to England 12 months ago.

Does anyone know or ever met anyone that actually voted the bloke in???? Flame suit on in preparation!

I may have been happy to take his money but I did infact vote for little Johnny as I was happy with the job he had been doing, especially with illegal immigrants.

I liked when the money came... helped me pay for rego...

but this mine thing is probably because of all the money he handed out... probably though "oh sh1t! spent heaps of money.. need to recoup it some how"..... he is useless F$%K wit and is full of hot air and promises and needs to join the dole queue as far as i am concerned...

pheewww got that off my chest :) hahaha

I did, and received no hand outs. What option is there now, a wing nut with legs.

Boxhead,

The stimulus package worked yes, but not for long. I dont know what its like up there, but if its anything like here Mr Rudd is the reason why you cant get a reasonable concrete price.

I work as a consultant to the building industry in NSW and a lot of my clients are tied up in the BER works that are going on. One of my clients is also a managing contractor for the scheme. In my opinion the scheme has worked for what it was intended to do, stimulate the building industry. However, too quickly and there are a lot of draw backs.

Firstly the fact that so much money was spent so quickly meant that everyone was suddenly flat out. This drove prices through the roof as subbies were pricing work they didnt want or need. Combined with the requirement for it to be local labour, managing contractors had to accept these prices.

Secondly, managing contractors were adding there management fee on which normally would be government overheads. Hence the media circus about the price of the jobs. These managing contractors also are required by accreditations they hold to implement Quality, safety and environmental management systems that typically wouldnt come into play until the job is over $10M. This takes a lot of time to implement and uses resources that cost money, plus the little builders doing the work had to also implement these systems when most had never heard of a safe work method statement let alone a whole management system.

Thirdly, the builders all hired site management staff to run the sites because they didnt have enough existing employees.

Fourthly the builders doing the work all had to provide bank guarantee's meaning they have money tied up for a period during and after the projects.

And finally the problems. There is no more work on the horizon for all of these builders. Even if there was they have been too busy to price it, and they cannot demonstrate financial capacity to win more work because of the guarantee's. They will start to let people go.

I will put money on the fact that the building industry will be in a huge recession at the end of the year or early next year. Right at the time Liberal will come into power and have to clean up the mess. You can bet labour will be saying that its happened because they are out.

Interesting times in Canberra tonight!

In 11Hrs he'll be gone and THE RANGA will be runnin the C@UNTRY.....
....... the 2 of them would have to be the worst spoken Pollies in the country!!!!!!

I cannot wait to see Rudd break down on TV after all of this is over! He's a phoney, a liar and a gutless leader. I bet Costello is kicking himself for retiring now - he'd be a shoe-in at the next election against Gillard.

not many owned up to voting for him yet?

A Fairer Deal for Working Families? KRUDD

Probably because this is a COBRA forum, and not a sounding board for every armchair politician in the land to have a bleat , and start arguments.

We all might have an opinion about it....but it will most likely be about 50/50 , and consequently all it will do is lead to a big "cat fight" on a Car Club Forum.

I'm staying out of this thread, and I'll go and read the "Cobra / Car related " Topics.

Agreed. This can go no where useful.

Looks like a couple turned up..?:LOL:

hear, hear, wazza!!

http://www.miketron.com/wp-content/u...a_25032009.jpg

Maybe he is going to help Baz get his cobra over the pits now he is out of a job? Might cost you some money though Baz, I don't like the look of the calculator in his hand.

Wazza, yes it is a car forum, but there is no lounge in this area to raise the question.

It would just fall into space in the pool room.

But if it can be moved into there then I have no issue with that.

But while we are at it there are alot of threads that need to be moved, including the one you bought up about Queensland state of origin.

Now where is that High Horse?

To Merv and Wazza, are you hurting because Kev's a Queenslander?

I dare you to stay out of this thread! :D

No worries Boxhead,

I agree...there are a few threads that start on this forum, that are non -Cobra related, and seem to be just an excuse for someone to see their names on the screen, and maybe should be flicked.

Obviously that wouldn't include my EXCELLENT State of Origin thread "Go Queenslander !! "thread ...but I get your point.

I was more suggesting that there might be a couple of areas that seem to invoke nasty crappy comments that will only lead to arguments rather than a bit of fun stirring each other up.


Politics and Religion might be the main items in this category...??

I don't really want to get into a debate about either of these....and in any case....

what chance would I have when I'd be up against such masterful mas-debaters with such "don't argue gems" like....


I cannot wait to see Rudd break down on TV after all of this is over! He's a phoney, a liar and a gutless leader. I bet Costello is kicking himself for retiring now - he'd be a shoe-in at the next election against Gillard.



and.....


he is useless F$%K wit and is full of hot air and promises and needs to join the dole queue as far as i am concerned.........


and not to be left out.....



Yes I was one of the under earning bogans who had stimulas money given to me - it was perfect timing for when I went to England 12 months ago



Yeah..

I see your point Boxhead...

It's all much the same as stirring up some support for the State of Origin match, and maybe we should stick to more interesting topics.

Cheers Boxhead,

Wazza