The ScoMo Government

[Humid]

Yep best get the excuses primed locked and loaded.
Actually what Labor is proposing, will make budget surpluses a shoe in, I just don't think the average working person is going to like the outcomes.
Just my opinion.

From what I’ve been reading on here the average non working person isn’t going to like the outcome either.....

 

[SirRumpole]

I just don't think the average working person is going to like the outcomes.

Labor is promising tax cuts for "the average working person", rather than for those who don't need them so we'll see how that goes down with the electorate.

 

[Knobby22]

Just watched The Last Fixer an ode to Christopher Pyne and it has made me wistful. He was a good force in the Liberal Party and will be missed by me at least.

In comparison holding on by his fingernails Tony Abbott will probably still be around boosting the polls for Labor. The Fixer is gone but the Wrecker remains.

Reading on Sky news that Linda Reynolds mixed up the Liberal wages policy with Labors and reading in The Australian that the Libs are going to promise tax cuts they cannot fund, you have to say that it looks like the Muppets are now in control.

 

[Tink]

Trump's US wage rises ignored by Bill Shorten

Bill Shorten has declared the federal election a referendum on worker pay so the Labor leader should have noticed US wage growth jumped to a 10-year high on Friday.

Under a tax-cutting and deregulating President Donald Trump, US wages are finally growing at a healthy 3.4 per cent pace. On top of this the US unemployment rate is 3.8 per cent, close to the lows last achieved in the 1960s.

https://www.afr.com/news/economy/trumps-us-wage-rises-ignored-by-bill-shorten-20190310-h1c7bl

 

[PZ99]

"ALP policies on IR, trade & tax" LOL

Wasn't it the federal Coalition Govt that blocked the Victorian ALP trade deal with China ?

Wasn't it the Coalition state Govts that fixed wage rises at 2.5% for public servants ?

Wasn't it the Abbott Govt that increased super tax on low income earners and excise on fuel ?

Shouldn't the Coalition be taking this magic lead from Uncle Sam instead of being hypocrites ?

Maybe they could start by backing penalty rates ?

 

[Zaxon]

Labor is promising tax cuts for "the average working person", rather than for those who don't need them so we'll see how that goes down with the electorate.

 

[SirRumpole]

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Looks like a landslide if the polls are right and they hold until the election.

I don't think people are listening to the coalition any more, six years of nothing has to take it's toll.

 

[wayneL]

Looks like a landslide if the polls are right and they hold until the election.

I don't think people are listening to the coalition any more, six years of nothing has to take it's toll.

They have betrayed their base, and are pandering to SJWs... folks who will never vote for them anyway, ensuring the great ideological exodus to the minors.

So yeah, your evaluation is correct, nobody is listening.

Nobody is listening to Labor either, but they will romp it in my default. It will take a few more years for folks to abandon binary idiocy

 

[Darc Knight]

Let's just get a Government that sits a bit to the right on the economy and a bit to the left socially. Then paddle like crazy!

 

[wayneL]

Let's just get a Government that sits a bit to the right on the economy and a bit to the left socially. Then paddle like crazy!

Comedy gold!

That would be a "classical liberal" party. And the only classically liberal party in Oz is categorized as Nazis.

 

[Knobby22]

Comedy gold!

That would be a "classical liberal" party. And the only classically liberal party in Oz is categorized as Nazis.

They had a leader trying to do that.
They decided instead to commit political suicide.

 

[Darc Knight]

Comedy gold!

That would be a "classical liberal" party. And the only classically liberal party in Oz is categorized as Nazis.

Geez Wayne. All your Kommy name calling mighta been misdirected hey!

 

[wayneL]

Geez Wayne. All your Kommy name calling mighta been misdirected hey!

Commy name calling?

Not another straw man fallacy?

 

[Darc Knight]

Commy name calling?

Not another straw man fallacy?

Cmon Wayne, how many times have you called me/us Commies or Komrades. Not that I'm complaining, there's something quite amusing about it all.

 

[wayneL]

Cmon Wayne, how many times have you called me/us Commies or Komrades. Not that I'm complaining, there's something quite amusing about it all.

I have never told anyone here commie, unless I was three sheets to the wind one night, and can't remember.

However, "Comrades" is merely the term Labor Party members refer to each other.

I use "Komrades" for the requisite comedic effect

 

[PZ99]

Let's just get a Government that sits a bit to the right on the economy and a bit to the left socially. Then paddle like crazy!

I like that one...

"damn the torpedoes... ​

keep paddling!..."​

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[IFocus]

I have never told anyone here commie, unless I was three sheets to the wind one night, and can't remember.

However, "Comrades" is merely the term Labor Party members refer to each other.

I use "Komrades" for the requisite comedic effect

When I was active in the union movement during the 70's the old timers used Comrade by the mid 90's it was long gone modern Labor follow neo-liberalism.............you are still in that echo chamber.

 

[wayneL]

When I was active in the union movement during the 70's the old timers used Comrade by the mid 90's it was long gone modern Labor follow neo-liberalism.............you are still in that echo chamber.

Okay.

But I still think "Komrade" is apt.

 

[PZ99]

Here you go... perfect illustration of Liberal Party definition of a wage "rise"

Tasmanian public sector workers have flagged full-day strikes after rejecting the state government's latest pay and conditions offer.

The Liberal government recently budged from their two-per-cent wage cap, a position they held for months that put them at loggerheads with unions who demanded more.

Their new offer included a 2 per cent increase in the the first year, followed by 2.25 per cent and 2.5 per cent in the two years following.

But unions have rejected the proposal, saying it doesn't keep pace with the cost of living and includes a loss of conditions.

https://www.news.com.au/national/br...r/news-story/18172a5063eb1bac59e02c8683ca499b

Maybe our popular Josh should tell 'em to do it Trump style

 

[Junior]

They had a leader trying to do that.
They decided instead to commit political suicide.

You're right about that.

Malcolm was very popular with the public when he first took office. If his party got behind him on just a few key issues, they would easily have been able to knock off Shorten this year. Appease younger voters on climate change, SSM etc. and appease long term Liberal voters by supporting middle/higher income earners, small business, retirees, in terms of tax policy. Sounds easy but they managed to complete f*** it up with internal bickering and ideological b/s.