A lesson to be learned

This morning's Radio National AM featured an interview with Christina Singh, of the Sensis Business Index, which has recently published a report finding that - guess what - not every small business will be overhauling their workplace arrangements after the passage of the new IR legislation. In other words, not every Australian small business will be transformed, overnight, into a Dickensian hellhole where barefoot tubercular 10-year-olds paste labels on blacking bottles and shimmy up chimneys. The interviewer's response?
"Isn't there a lesson in this for John Howard?"

Honestly. These Chicken Littles run around squawking that the sky is falling, and it's all John Howard's fault. When the sky finally refuses to fall, they peep through their fingers, pick themselves up, look at each other and sagely proclaim: "There's a lesson in this for John Howard".