Don't Care And Not Listening….

Opposition leader Kevin Rudd's drunken visit to a New York strip club seems to have done him no harm. According to this poll , 85 per cent of voters thought it showed he was "a normal bloke". Whether that means that the 85 per cent of us who go to strip clubs are normal and the 15 per cent of us who don't are not, I really couldn't say. More worrying for those who try to manage these things on behalf of politicians, apparently 51 per cent think that the current healthy financial surplus does not stem from good economic management, or even luck, but from setting taxes too high. This despite the fact that the surplus has increased as the tax take has been steadily cut over a number of years. A majority of Australian families now pay no net tax, once various benefits are taken into account. Whatever happened to "it's the economy, stupid" and the feel-good factor?