You could wonder if Obama waited until he lost the seat and it became unlikely he would get anything through Senate, before launching into some more rhetoric and a few threats against the Banks. He has been a huge disappointment for a lot of sincere people who hoped he might be "different".

There is no difference between OBAMA and KEY and BROWN and ....and ...and....et al.

There you have the crux of the WORLD'S problems. DEBT....and the downwards spiral.

Miss-management on a grand scale.....and my grand is bigger than your grand.

At least for a while.

The politics of....Screw you all...I am all right JACK....and favour the few who GAMBLED your money away...and mine.........and still are.

Houses a pack of cards....held up by reducing rates to below the norm to entice more idiots into the fray.

Farms a pack of cards....and still we try to sucker the overseas punters into buying.

Why sell an asset......if it is so productive. Carter Holt.....

or.....is that ...Carter & Crafar... halt.

A nutshell start to the nutty YEAR.

Must be a CAD-BURY's fruit and nut case. Krafty....eh.

Now that at least can be be shrink wrapped.....to save on expenses...and outsource the lot to CHINA........leaving the great Kiwi...workers shafted....but not too rapt.

We can then sell them our milk.....at ever decreasing prices.

Fonterrible needs more money....to pay the BILLS.....and English is trying to restructure our economy to pay HIS.

Strange old world...eh.