You think this is bad?

If you think what’s going on here is bad, spare a thought for conservatives in Australia.

Having won election as an "economic conservative", Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd earlier this week called for a new world order that goes even further than "the 70-year-old interventionist principles of John Maynard Keynes".

Today, he proved his call for socialism, and introduced into Parliament the largest spending increase in Australia's history - equivalent to 4% of total national output. He plans to ram this through in - wait for it - one day. Opposition legislators got to see their first copies of the bill the morning that they are expected to vote on it.

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