doesn't Kevin Rudd deal with the food inflationary aspects in this world, you know?" If that isn't enough, Barnaby also demonstrates powers more usually associated with the use of hallucinogenic substances: "The cost through your smelly tax and through your dirty little trick is to wind your way into the hands of working families and then to put out on the street the working families and the coalminers." Not since Richard Alpert or the late Dr. Timothy Leary have we heard psychedelic stories about people who can smell tax or wind their ways into people's hands. [I make no comment on the fine distinction Barnaby makes between working families and coalminers.] Gweneth : 10 Feb 2010 12:06:22am Brian B, I almost admire you in your valiant effort yo find the silver lining in all this - you may not know about debt, but the point is those that rate us - and do know are saying Barnaby is wrong. Plain speaking is to be admired but truth is important too - especially if the "untruth" may damage us. Gweneth : 10 Feb 2010 10:44:01am And is lacking in the political debate too. Whom to trust? People who work in the complex world of finance and probably vote Liberal but know that spooking the markets is dangerous regardless of the politics or a politician who is desperate for votes and knows that "plain speaking" nonsense will appeal to at least some of those voters who don't understand the finance? It is