crude definition of accounting with a very crude definition of economics and ladling in some creative historical interpretation for the hell of it. By the way, what proportion of the debt left by the Howard government was private debt?What infrastructure works do we now have as a result of the Howard years that we can point to as part of the national heritage that we can pass on to our future generations? We're living in a post Whitlam, Keating and Hawke age.What will Australians be enjoying in say, thirty years time, that is directly attributable to anything done as a result of Howard policy and reforms? Algernon : 13 Feb 2010 9:59:21am "What infrastructure works do we now have as a result of the Howard years that we can point to as part of the national heritage that we can pass on to our future generations?" Pam, care to elaborate on WHAT infrastructure works the Howard government put in place or assisted to. I'm struggling to think of anything other than the massive loss making private Alice Springs to Darwin railway. Infrastucture and Liberal Party; they're not words that are synonymous. Algernon : Peter any comment on th $1t squandered by the Howard goverment in its last 3 years on wonderful things like middle class welfare or deregulating banks to allow an explosion in cheap money. Or perhaps the massive debt left by Howard as Treasurer in 1983. Or how he slammed the economy into reverse by creating a credit