Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Scott Morrison’s approval rating highest for a PM in more than a decade: Newspoll" video.

Nearly as popular as Kevin Rudd ...... how did that turn out?
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Agreed. At the time of the next elections (both state and federal) the people will have forgotten the panic, know it was overblown, and be living daily with doubt digit long-term unemployment, increasing taxes, and government debt that will probably never be repaid.
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As soon as Morrison started saying the recent bushfires were the result of global warming you knew exactly what his true colors were. Just another politician without any principals prepared to do and say anything to gain and stay in power. This recent episode has shown just how weak he is.
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@richardfeynman7491 It's hard to know which between Rudd and Keating was the best PM Australia ever had. Each one gives you a different answer.
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@richardfeynman7491 That's funny. Keating gave us the "recession Australia had to have", and Rubb gave us big government debt that we still haven't paid for. Keating wins hands down for economic reform, superannuation, etc. Rubb was just a complete Dudd.
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@richardfeynman7491 We're completely off topic, but Rudd did nothing for the GFC, just wasted a lot of money. Australia went through it reasonable ok because of the mining boom, and that we had 4 financially secure and conservative banks.
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@patersonplays "Two wrongs don't make a right". I'm fully aware of the size of the current debt being racked up. A cash handout is no better policy today that it was in Rudd's time (being just one element). You'll get no argument from me the current debt that is being racked up to deal with the equivalent of a bad Influenza outbreak is totally irresponsible.
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@patersonplays Your looking at from a political support perspective rather than an independent cold hard economic basis. Government is a business, the business of running a country. In business you only ever borrow money for long term assets e.g a new factory, plant and equipment. If you borrow money to pay for daily expense items you are on your way toward bankruptcy. Same deal with government, if it wants to borrow to stimulate the economy the money should only be spent on nation building assets e.g. dams, roads, ports, high speed rail, etc. Then when the crisis has passed and you still have the debt your still have a valuable public asset, not Chinese made plasma TV screens now sitting in landfill.
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@patersonplays Even a charity needs to be run in a prudent financial manner, otherwise it will cease to exist. Government around the world are not sitting atop a "pile of dead money not working for people". They are sitting atop a gigantic mountain of debt. And debt whether you are a business, government, charity or person, is money spent before it has been earned or collected. In the case of governments it is the earnings of future generations. Not unlike people with a credit card, currently living beyond their means. You seem to be confusing the economic concepts of a 'budget surplus' with 'net debt'. Australia's net debt before this current madness was around $350 Billion. That's money we owe to someone and have to pay interest on. Who knows what it will be by the time these lunatics have finished.
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