REPEATING HISTORY
by MARK J PULAPE NOT THE FIRST TIME OUR ECONOMY HAS BEEN GRAVELY MISMANAGED BY PRIME MINISTERS Young people have no idea how much better (or worse) things used to be in the past. We live in a nation where too little of our history is written down, hardly ever in a form where it can be retrieved and read years later. That makes it easy for our leaders to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. They fall into the same traps, make the same mistakes, and the rest of us don't realise it could have all been avoided. That's the stupidity of always looking forward and never looking back. Also not knowing our own history makes it very hard to become enraged when our leaders' idiot decisions costs the country millions, even billions. We never knew it was avoidable! Amazingly, certain politicians who created our biggest disasters in the past still hang on long past their use by date. They successfully escape their past by reinventing themselves in a new image. Juli