Originally Posted by Kato

I am highly biased, I know... But I would think the Howard government would have had a better economic plan than 'give a few bucks to some people to increase spending'. Bandaid solution only boosted the economy for a couple of weeks.

So far Krudd has spent more time out of the country since he was elected in than being here. Maybe it's time to start being the Prime Minister and looking after Australia's affairs?

BHP halts this mine, all the other business that feed off that mine will also have to lay off workers and the chain reaction grows. At the same time, these companies behind the mines are very happy to take all their projects off shore under the pretense WA is in a boom and can't do the work. The media talks about these billion dollar jobs going on, but are they being done in Australia (keeping the whole chain working)?