Politics rant

oh yes only 5 weeks til the election.. so i might get on top of my rant box more often.. ho hum!
So whats new?
the silly interest rate thing (true i dont have a home loan, glad i dont. BUT we do have a credit card.. and every so often the banks will put them up (but not very often at all) coz of inflation/interest rate hikes etc)
the last elections i was a howard supporter.. and so were most people.. yes? he promised to keep interest rates low.. despite NOT having any control over it! So since then its gone up a few times.. now today inflation info comes out and the RBA thinks about another rate rise so close to the election that the current government jumps up and down saying it has no right to rise it due to whats happening in the U.S.A... Howard tells us we as a nation have never been so well off.. yet today i hear that he apparently now understands that alot of people/families are under pressure.. yet the treasurer or PM couldnt recall the correct price for a loaf of bread/milk etc on radio awhile ago..
this is just how i see it, and i just get mad at two-faced people who will say anything to be seen as understanding etc.. when for many years they would throw a few $$ to make us happy and then go about their usual head-in-the-clouds attitude.. meh!
I truly must be getting old if i actually care about politics.. ><
i'd really like to see some new big project done.. that ISN'T sports related! *sigh* I'd really not like to fear going to hospital with no private health care cover.. or just waiting in a emergency room.. (whether or not its state or federal problem.. its a big enough problem nationwide to make it a federal problem)