Some may expect the government to reduce expenditure by over $100B in order to maintain a surplus. But thats a lot of services cut, or a lot of tax increases. $42B is just a spit in the ocean of what can be lost.
A source below...
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24999947-5001021,00.html
But actually considering the revenue lost. It makes you wonder what services will need to be cut in the long term
but if you don't have the necessary staff don't bother.
how about drinkable water ,i haven't been to Adelaide for 30 years and still have nightmares about there tap water
Prospector, that is, of course, just appalling. And it will be repeated in perhaps less dramatic fashion throughout Australia.
But $30,000 to cretins like this is just what Rudd & Co want! Because they will go out and spend it quickly on useless rubbish. Don't worry about that though because it will provide another quick spike in the quarterly figures so our esteemed leaders may say : "OK, folks, there we are now - see what a great job we're doing - Australia is still not in recession, just look at those retail figures."
This country - and the others who share this short term amoral attitude - needs a whole new political and governmental philosophy. It won't happen, of course. It's just all so depressing.
This is the problem with these handouts. When you think of all the positive, constructive things that would benefit society that $30,000 could be spent on. Multiply that effect by over one hundred thousand (i.e. billions in handouts) and all of this money that could be going to constructive social purposes is just being tipped down the drain. Its criminal, its an obnoxious waste of Australia's wealth.
30,000 - airconditioning in a school? Half a teachers wage? Half a nurses wage? A hospital bed? A training program? A tree planting program? A small medical research grant (or any other worthwhile research? Sporting equipment for a school? A pre-feasability study for a works project?
Or tip it into a pokie machine and a bottleshop or a flat screen TV?
Compare the resultant effect on society.
Multiply by over 100,000.
I hated it when Howard (and Costello) did it, and I hate it that Rudd is doing it - particularly on this scale. So uncreative, so uninspiring, so bland and visionless, and such a waste of opportunity.
Too true; we have wards closed in our Public Hospitals because we dont have the Nurses to staff them. I think that Nurses HECS fees should be paid for by the Government - they are the crux of the Public Health system.
Our water is good now - filtered etc. We just dont have enough of it!
- small to med business owners (who employ more than a certain amount of people) lay off no workers in the 2009 calendar year get a 50% tax break.
According to the latest Newspoll survey, taken exclusively for The Australian at the weekend, primary vote support for Labor jumped five percentage points to 48 per cent - the same as in December - after the $42 billion economic stimulus package was announced last week.
A large majority of those surveyed, 63 per cent, also think the Rudd Government is doing a good job managing the economy during the global financial crisis and only 33 per cent think the Coalition would do a better job.
Anyhow, while it's not too popular on ASF, seems the "general public" sees otherwise, and just sees the $$ in their eyes. It's a vote winner..
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25026302-5013871,00.html
Introduce work for the unemployment benefit for every person after 6 months of unemployment assistance.
I guarantee you will see more bludgers jumping off the couches and beds around Australia faster than one could ever point a stick at.
Nick Xenophon has the perfect opportunity to shame the Rudd government into diverting his popular handouts toward massive relief for the fire victims. Having seen first hand the horrific devastation to lives and property Mr Rudd does not have the right to play politics on this issue. He may lose in the popularity stakes but he would sleep better at night.
In addition to relief and rebuilding, the stage has been reached for massive injections into infrastructure to ensure SA and Vic never lose another life through lack of water.
Nick Xenophon has the perfect opportunity to shame the Rudd government into diverting his popular handouts toward massive relief for the fire victims. Having seen first hand the horrific devastation to lives and property Mr Rudd does not have the right to play politics on this issue. He may lose in the popularity stakes but he would sleep better at night.
In addition to relief and rebuilding, the stage has been reached for massive injections into infrastructure to ensure SA and Vic never lose another life through lack of water.
On "The Insiders" this morning Julia Gillard was asked about the unemployed receiving no hand out in Package No. 2 other than the 'training bonus'. Barry Cassidy suggested to her that to expect people on Newstart to live on $225 p.w. was pretty unrealistic. She skipped over the question (of course) and went on to laud the benefits of the training available.
Given that we may well see increased numbers of people seeking this benefit, is the government's approach yet another example of their short term view?
i.e. if people can't meet their mortgage repayments/rent, don't we then have a much greater problem to deal with in the form of homelessness, not to mention the personal distress of individuals?
And we might imagine that people who have been in the workforce for a while will be able to bolster the government's meagre assistance by using their own savings to supplement their government benefit. Ah but no, a single person may not be eligible for Newstart until their level of personal assets is less than $2500.
Isn't this completely unreasonable and in fact counter-productive?
Yes, that might go a long way towards addressing the shortage of nurses.
Better still, bring back the old system where nurses were trained in the hospitals, getting lots of hands on experience and getting paid a small wage at the same time. They lived in the nurses quarters for minimal rental, had all their meals provided, were accommodated right there on the job site......a far better system that what's in place today with nursing being a uni course, big on classroom experience but small on practical experience. And a dirty big hex bill at the end of it. Crazy.
My wife has a number of nursing degrees. She trained through the hospital system, says the uni trained nurses these days are graduating with limited practical skills due to their limited hands-on experience. She reckons the current nurse training system is a poor substitute for the old hospital-based training system.
says Obama in his loud braying voice.I can tell ya that doing nothing is not an option
says Obama in his loud braying voice.
Sound familiar? That's Mr Rudd's mantra. Except when it comes to allocating the billions of dollars needed to redistribute Australia's plentiful water resources to where they are needed desperately.
Pink bats and massive handouts to the undeserving for God's sake. As I have said before;
God helps those who help themselves. Rudd helps those who can't be bothered. And his excuse is that he knows they will spend it more quickly.
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