No, not a liberal stooge. I really don't think you are an economist. You vote Green, and it seems you get most of your information (base on your previous posts) from tabloid papers.
If you were an economist, you would understand that the $50b/yr deficit now under Rudd (and up to $250B debt in years to come), eventually will need to be payed back.
OMG, clearly they haven't taught you economists the basics about good and bad debt. The mortgage is a good debt. Rudd $11b handout are like a credit card. The money went to China, etc. The bill remains.
$2.5b + $1B fix on batts. $16B ($8b wasted on schools, because of the rorts). All this is bad debt that tax payers have to pay eventually.
PS: we probably won't be paying ANYTHING off, anyway. Rudd will just sell bits of Australia to the chinese to pay off his hugh credit card debt. Get the difference, Mr Economist.
Like the NSW state government going to the "pawnbroker" to sell public assets, so they can pay off their hugh credit hard debts as well.