THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US

Yes the day that all progressive, caring, intelligent human beings in Australia have been dreading is upon us. Today is the day Howard and his SS cadre gain control of the senate. The attack on anybody who is not a money-grubbing fascist begins.

So why are we in Australia in this mess? Well obviously because people voted for Howard.

But why did people vote for that evil dip-shit? Most people who know anything about politics would say the issue of interest rates; the government ran a scare campaign stating that if you voted for the ALP interest rates would go up.

So why was this an issue? Because house prices have risen so dramatically.

Why have they risen so dramatically? Well, we have the ALP to blame for this. Two sets of two words; Negative gearing, and Tax cuts.

Negative gearing is a scheme that allows people with "excess cash" (obviously this rules out anybody who works an honest, decent job) to invest in property and offset any losses they may suffer as a result by reducing their taxable income. Or some such evil shit. Now when they were in power the ALP actually got rid of negative gearing for a while. That is until the multi-millionares who pass money under the table to them told them to bring it back . Which they did.

Now when in power the ALP also dramatically cut taxes for high income earners, and also dramatically cut the company tax rate. This meant that the bourgeoisie, wine drinking fascist fucks had more excess cash to throw around and invest. And property seemed like a good option; it gives you a tangible asset, it rarely loses value, it tends to steadily increase in value, and at times it dramatically increases in value.

Thus you had all these yuppie fucks looking to buy property. As a result of this increase in demand, because we live in a market economy, house prices increased, and increased and increased. When the Libs came into power they further cut taxes for high income earners, further exaberbating the problem, so that your average person looking to buy a house needed to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank. As a result these people have huge mortagage repayments to make each week/month. Thus if interest rates go up by even a small amount, so does their mortgage repayments. Thus the reason why interest rates were a huge issue.

Sure the ALP could have tried to counter this nonsensical arguement that interest rates under them would increase, but they had more important things to do, like making sure the heathens didn't get votes.

What do you mean, you may be asking. Well what I am refering to is the ALP's forestry policy in Tasmania launched a week before the election. Like most things with the ALP, it was half-arsed, not going far enough to protect the Tasmanian forests. It also would not gain them any votes on a two party preferred basis. People who want to protect the forests will vote green, and in almost all cases give their preferences to the ALP.

So why do it? Well the reality is that the ALP is not a left of centre party; the party is run by the right, and the NSW Catholic right is very powerful in the party. That's not to say that there aren't some decent peple in the ALP; they just don't influence policy.

Now the ALP right, and particularly the NSW Catholic RIght are very socially conservative; they hate gays and are opposed to gay marriages, and want to restrict abortions. As such the Greens are immoral and unchristian to them. They are thus the enemy, and as such they wanted to stop them from getting votes.

That's when they hit upon the idea, "Hey, let's adopt a half-arsed policy that gives the impression we care about saving Tasmania's rainforests, so that environmentalists will vote for us and not those satanic Greens, who if they get enough seats in parliament will try and legalise human sacrifices to satan." Thus the scenes of Mark Latham launching the policy a week before the election.

Except most environmentalists are smart and didn't buy the ALP's nonsense. However the half arsed policy was enough to piss off some people in Tasmania. The result was that people who would traditionally vote for the ALP in Tasmania voted for the Liberals. Thus a senate seat In Tasmania that the ALP should have held, they lost to the Liberals, helping to deliver the coalition a senate majority, and putting the Australian people in the shit they are now in.

The fucking ALP. A bunch of fucking useless rednecks.