Abbott in Government

[Sprucegoose]

It's interesting to read the current polls/survey that should an election be called this weekend, the Coalition would be gone.

Believe them if you will!!


All new govs get off to a poor start.


hawke and Howard included.

 

[get me outta here]

Believe them if you will!!


All new govs get off to a poor start.


hawke and Howard included.

From what I have read TA has set a record for the fastest negative sentiment.

 

[trblvb]

100 days of Tony Abbott that’s splendid…note Rudd only lasted 77 days in 2013.

Tony Abbott wins again…

 

[Pukka]

It's interesting to read the current polls/survey that should an election be called this weekend, the Coalition would be gone.

No it's not interesting at all because that's not going to happen its irrelevant

 

[BadgerBoi]

Re: Libtika to the Rescue

Yes, yes, yes. So that's all well and good, but rather than focussing on the negatives we should instead celebrate the positives.

Starter for 10, anybody?

Anyone at all??

President Credlin has temporarily gagged Chrissie Pyne.

 

[BadgerBoi]

Believe them if you will!!


All new govs get off to a poor start.


hawke and Howard included.

none one as spectacularly poorly as this bunch of amateurs.

 

[drron]

You weren't round for Rex Connor,Jim Cairns and Mr.Khemlani were you?

 

[cove]

I get the feeling no one in Australia wants to help pay back the money borrowed over the last 6 years.
For the State Governments the GST rise will not be a rise from 10% to 11% when it happens.

 

[Mal]

I get the feeling no one in Australia wants to help pay back the money borrowed over the last 6 years.
For the State Governments the GST rise will not be a rise from 10% to 11% when it happens.

The problem is that the flat screen TVs have depreciated in value.

 

[BadgerBoi]

You weren't round for Rex Connor,Jim Cairns and Mr.Khemlani were you?

Or Chrissie Pyne, Julie Bishop, Peta Credlin or Scott Morrison. A wealth of ineptitude - with the exception of President Credlin who will be the one to bring the Abbott govt down.

 

[BadgerBoi]

Any truth to the rumour that Uncle Arthur and Janette were spotted at KMart being fitted for outfits for their upcoming roles as GG and consort?

 

[Hvr]

Any truth to the rumour that Uncle Arthur and Janette were spotted at KMart being fitted for outfits for their upcoming roles as GG and consort?

I really hope that rumour is off target. Nor do we want a general type of GG.

 

[cove]

We have been completely done over as a country by Labor over the last 6 years and not one has apologized nor admitted how stupid those years were. About 400 billion dollars to pay back as the post war baby boomers shuffle off on their tax free pensions. It is going to be a long time to fix this financial mess that Labor created.
There are no easy solutions as Australia was always heading into this generational change and Labor knew it and ignored it for 6 years and discussed bull**** ideas first and last while the country was burning.

 

[drsmithy]

We have been completely done over as a country by Labor over the last 6 years and not one has apologized nor admitted how stupid those years were. About 400 billion dollars to pay back as the post war baby boomers shuffle off on their tax free pensions. It is going to be a long time to fix this financial mess that Labor created.
There are no easy solutions as Australia was always heading into this generational change and Labor knew it and ignored it for 6 years and discussed bull**** ideas first and last while the country was burning.

There seems to be a distinct lack of blame in your rant to Messrs Howard and Costello who did everything new Labor did, and worse, for longer. They are the ones who planted the seeds of today's structural problems.

You can thank Costello in particular for the absurdly favourable tax treatment retiring baby boomers have (and will continue to) receive. Hockey has (unsurprisingly) continued in the same vein by scrapping the (inadequate, but at least a start) changes to tax and superannuation brought in by the previous Government.

As I've said before, both Labor and the Coalition are marching to the beat of the same neoliberal economic drum, which is why their policies are barely distinguishable. They're not going to fix any of the problems because they don't consider them problems.

Though since you most likely think our biggest problems are Government debt and welfare expenditure, you're not going to do anything to help, either.

 

[777]

Actually most governments get a honeymoon period. It's very rare to see this kind of plunge.

I've said it a thousand times in this thread and i'll say it again. This government has a fundamental problem: it got in by promising people it could do everything. It can't. No government can. You have to make difficult decisions and you have to make trade-offs. You can't oppose every tax and every spending cut and still deliver a surplus. It just can't be done.

This government is going to have a tricky time because they are going to measured against what they said they would do. And they said they would and could do everything.

 

[BadgerBoi]

I really hope that rumour is off target. Nor do we want a general type of GG.

Dame Janette will make a wonderful GG, no doubt returning us to the glory days of John Kerr. Her only difficulty will be ensuring that Uncle Arthur doesn't make it over the fence of the Twilight Home and embarrass her at ribbon-cutting ceremonies.

 

[Moody]

We have been completely done over as a country by Labor over the last 6 years and not one has apologized nor admitted how stupid those years were. About 400 billion dollars to pay back as the post war baby boomers shuffle off on their tax free pensions. It is going to be a long time to fix this financial mess that Labor created.
There are no easy solutions as Australia was always heading into this generational change and Labor knew it and ignored it for 6 years and discussed bull**** ideas first and last while the country was burning.

I struggle for words. Any idiot can run a balanced budget - you just match expenditure to income. That sort of mentality would have seen Australia plunge into a deep recession that would be ongoing. Even Joe Hockey at his comical best never claimed he could deliver a surplus in the aftermath of the GFC. Now he has his hands on the levers of government he is suddenly talking about $500B+ debt whilst at the same time denying that the Coalition will have anything to do with it. Only the truly deluded would swallow that tripe.

Getting back to a balanced budget without sending the economy into a death spiral is the end game. So far I have seen nothing from the new government that gives me confidence they can achieve this. Come the budget I expect them to do their "Dennis Moore" impression ... as usual.

 

[Pukka]

There seems to be a distinct lack of blame in your rant to Messrs Howard and Costello who did everything new Labor did, and worse, for longer. They are the ones who planted the seeds of today's structural problems.

You can thank Costello in particular for the absurdly favourable tax treatment retiring baby boomers have (and will continue to) receive. Hockey has (unsurprisingly) continued in the same vein by scrapping the (inadequate, but at least a start) changes to tax and superannuation brought in by the previous Government.

As I've said before, both Labor and the Coalition are marching to the beat of the same neoliberal economic drum, which is why their policies are barely distinguishable. They're not going to fix any of the problems because they don't consider them problems.

Though since you most likely think our biggest problems are Government debt and welfare expenditure, you're not going to do anything to help, either.

Except pay bucket loads of tax you mean. I'm sure that helps.

 

[drsmithy]

Except pay bucket loads of tax you mean. I'm sure that helps.

We don't pay bucket loads of tax. We have one of the lowest tax burdens in the OECD.

Indeed, the budget problem is almost entirely on the revenue side, in no small part thanks to Howard & Costello's using once-off windfalls to fund structural tax cuts and restructure the tax system to dramatically favour the wealthy and high earners.

Said tax revenue would certainly help a lot more if it wasn't being wasted on people earning six figure incomes, subsidising landlords, and being collected in a manner that encourages asset speculation and discourages productive enterprise.

 

[drron]

I struggle for words. Any idiot can run a balanced budget - you just match expenditure to income. That sort of mentality would have seen Australia plunge into a deep recession that would be ongoing. Even Joe Hockey at his comical best never claimed he could deliver a surplus in the aftermath of the GFC. Now he has his hands on the levers of government he is suddenly talking about $500B+ debt whilst at the same time denying that the Coalition will have anything to do with it. Only the truly deluded would swallow that tripe.

Getting back to a balanced budget without sending the economy into a death spiral is the end game. So far I have seen nothing from the new government that gives me confidence they can achieve this. Come the budget I expect them to do their "Dennis Moore" impression ... as usual.

500 billion in debt.100 days in Government.So Tony and Joe are responsible for 5 billion excess expenditure per day.
You are right I don't swallow that sort of tripe.