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Liar, liar pants on fire	Mathatmacoat	05/18/09
Krudd has just announced on national TV quite contrary to the budget speech of his Treasurer that Australia's peak debt will be $300 Billion not $188 Billion as announced less than a week ago. This represents 13.8% of GDP not the 5% his treasurer had indicated. Not only did Swann misled the Parliament, he misled the Australian people in his address. We have gone far beyond banana republic here, at this rate we will become the poor man of the pacific in the next decade. What I want the know is why isn't the opposition howling for his blood, because Krudd says this is all clearly laid out in the budget papers?
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paraclete		05/18/09
Swanny has just been selective in his statistics, just as Krudd was being selective. With a 1000 page document to be selective about who knows what little gems will emerge You know as well as I do that politicians tell us only what they want us to know and what has happened here is we have been spoon fed the bad news a little at a time so we would get used to the idea. We have been manipulated once again. I hope the opposition has the guts to bring on a double dissolution and chuck these idiots out.

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