Janet Albrechtsen has written a really interesting article – that the hard work, great policy, diligence and ultimate success of the Howard Government has created a generation of complacent people. We’ve already forgotten about how difficult it is to manage an economy so that it is roaring, with the beneficial social and political outcomes this implies. And how the paradox is that John Howard is paving the way for Kevin Rudd to tell everyone how it’s easy.
The inverse – Rudd is saying, and most likely will say until election day: “It’s so simple to run the economy, because we (the ALP) are simpletons, even we won’t stuff it up”.