The Gillard Government

[MrBurns]

Question Time has just begun and already Gillard has said " Jobs and Growth and Disability " more than 10 times . She will run a cricket score before the days end

If you listen to question time for too long you risk a brain haemorrhage............all I hear from Labor is
"those opposite this and that" and it goes on for hours.

 

[Macquack]

Well why not just burn the witch at the stake (with a slow fire ) before dumping her at sea in chaff bag ?

How about banishing any friends or relations of Julia Gilliard to the South Pole for consorting with the witch ? Have we left anything out ? Can we possibly be any nastier or more spiteful ?

I have put little into this thread because I believed it was just a mindless, hate barrage of a politician who is doing their best as they see it. Unfortunately what everyone left of centre wanted to see was the PM turn up her toes and die. Not doing that seems to have enraged an Opposition leader who was determined to destroy this government rather than allow it to see a full term. And of course starting with Alan Jones, Larry Pickering and every other piece of nasty in the country we have had a hate chorus that seems to have infected millions. Just very troubling in my view.

With regard to the Disability care program and the emotional effect that passing the bill and effectively wedging the Libs to support it in the future. There was a good story in The Age on the circumstances around the PMs introduction of the bill into the house.




See you folks. Keep on bitching... Only a few months to go.

Good post basilio.

 

[bunyip]

Well why not just burn the witch at the stake (with a slow fire ) before dumping her at sea in chaff bag ?

How about banishing any friends or relations of Julia Gilliard to the South Pole for consorting with the witch ? Have we left anything out ? Can we possibly be any nastier or more spiteful ?

Talking of ‘spiteful and nasty’........if you consider yourself to be a fair-minded person then you should also mention how spiteful and nasty Gillard has been

Gillard has brought all the criticism on herself.

 

[bunyip]

Gillard promised us ‘There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead’.
But in her typical lying style she soon forgot about her promise, and introduced a carbon tax anyway.
And for what? Gillard and the Greens tell us we’re creating catastrophic climate change, and the carbon tax is necessary to address the problem.
This short video tells a different story.

The tax was a money-grab, nothing more and nothing less, and had nothing to do with Gillard supposedly wanting to save the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC1l4geSTP8

 

[Logique]

Good post basilio.

I do think we conservatives have at times made it too personal. There is a tip, and there is an iceberg.

 

[dutchie]

 

[wayneL]

I do think we conservatives have at times made it too personal.

It IS personal.... their friggin' hand is in my pocket more than mine is. :frown:

 

[springhill]

Well why not just burn the witch at the stake (with a slow fire ) before dumping her at sea in chaff bag ?

It is a waste of the chaff bag.

 

[Macquack]

It IS personal.... their friggin' hand is in my pocket more than mine is. :frown:

Those little cash jobs on the side would more than cover that.

 

[wayneL]

Those little cash jobs on the side would more than cover that.

There is the temptation, but it's an easy matter for ATO to add up 2 and 2 in my game.

Although it is legal for the ATO to rob me blind, they don't appreciate the reciprocal... and they have the guns.

 

[bunyip]

The following was supposedly written by Peter Costello. I haven't checked if he did in fact write it, but it's pretty well spot on regardless of who wrote it.

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What Wayne Swan won't say tonight in his Budget 2013 delivery
by: Peter Costello
From: The Daily Telegraph
May 14, 2013 12:00AM

TWO months ago I suggested Wayne Swan try something different in this year's Budget and tell the truth. I have put together a draft of the speech that might be useful for this purpose. It goes something like this:

Mr Speaker,

I guess by now you have all figured out I don't know what I'm doing. That awful truth has finally dawned on me as well.

I hadn't been too good before, but last year's budget was the one where I totally blew myself up - you remember? It was May 8. I thought I needed a dramatic opening. So I began by saying: "The four years of surpluses I announce tonight ... "

No one heard the rest of the sentence because of the guffaws from the other side. That smart alec Costello called it some of the best stand-up comedy ever delivered in the House of Representatives. But the thing is I really believed it. I'm not good at numbers - of the financial kind. As state secretary of the Queensland ALP I used to run numbers for party ballots. But the outcome was always fixed in advance. I thought that's how you did budgets.

I was just getting into my stride when I declared that Labor's core purpose was: "To share the tremendous benefits of the mining boom."

We were going to do this with a company tax cut starting from July 1 this year but I cancelled that in last year's budget. Also we were going to restore the Liberals' contribution levels for superannuation but I postponed that in last year's budget.

And last year I said we would give $1.8 billion to families in more generous payments from July 1 this year. But I'm cancelling that in this year's Budget. That's the thing about my budgets. I do take up a lot of time cancelling what I've announced before.

Anyway, there are only so many billion-dollar packages that you can fund out of a tax that raises $126 million. That Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) has shown me no R-E-S-P-E-C-T. When I announced it, I said it would raise $9 billion in the forthcoming year - whoops! I had high hopes for that tax. I called it "the greatest economic change in our lifetime". Of course I had no idea what I was saying but the Liberals are always going on about GST which raises $50 billion per year so I thought I had better lodge my nomination for the greatest tax "reform" ever.

Last year, I came home with a wet sail declaring: "The deficit years are behind us. The surplus years are here."

Looks like I got the words the wrong way around. I should have said that the surpluses were behind us and the deficit years are here. But I did so want to balance one budget before losing office.

I've been thinking about who to blame. For the first few budgets I blamed the financial crisis. But that was five years ago and we've been through a mining boom since then.

Now I'm blaming the high dollar although someone in the Treasury told me last year's budget forecasts were based on the dollar being just where it is. I'm desperate that people don't think it's my overspending because that is something I could have controlled. So we've been on a media blitz to say it's an unexpected revenue shortfall.

In April, I said the revenue was down $7.5 billion. A week later Julia said it was down $12 billion. Then Penny went out last week to say it was down $17 billion. I leaked out a Treasury briefing on the weekend to say we were $26 billion down.

How do you reconcile all these figures? Well, it beats me and I hope it beats all of you because that is the whole point - to try to cloud the issue.

At least no one in the press ever asks me to explain what these forecasts are "down" against. Because the truth is they are down on the false forecasts I made last year. Get it? I am not the victim of these downgrades, I am the culprit. Every time I downgrade, it just illustrates again how wrong I got it last year.

I know we can always rely on the ABC, but the thing that amazes me about those other guys in the press is they keep writing what I say - as if that is going to happen (LOL). How many times do you have to get it wrong before they start to see there is a pattern?

I want people to think I am cutting costs. I've told you every budget that I am about to do that. But when I see a state premier who is really cutting costs - like Campbell Newman -- I just take cheap shots. That's my default position, to attack expenditure restraint.

As well as cutting expenditure I also want you to think I am increasing it - on NDIS and Gonski. Last year I told you the most important thing for our economy was to balance the budget and this year I am telling you to do so would damage jobs.

So how do I reconcile all this? Well I can't. And I don't have to because on September 14 I'm handing it all over to the Liberals. That's their job: to clean up my mess.

· Peter Costello was federal treasurer from 1996 to 2007

 

[dutchie]

""The default view was ”I just don’t listen to what [Julia] Gillard has to say any more,” Mr Scales said.""

I reckon the vast majority of Australians switch channels whenever Gillard comes on.

To say she is disliked is an understatement. This understandable attitude will result in annihilation in September.

(Good riddance!)

 

[Calliope]

The following was supposedly written by Peter Costello. I haven't checked if he did in fact write it, but it's pretty well spot on regardless of who wrote it.

I gave the link for Costello's letter on Budget 2013 thread on 13 May.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion...ayne-swans-world/story-e6frfhqf-1226641521149

 

[Calliope]

Gillard, Swan and the obnoxious Wong keep harping about a Coalition "black hole". The obvious black holes are in their brain boxes.

IT is high time that the government dropped the rhetoric about the Coalition having a "$70 billion black hole" in its funding commitments. The numbers do not support such an attack.

Apart from the hypocrisy of a government that has failed to deliver its surplus forecast continuing to engage in such rhetoric, the $70bn figure is based on outdated assumptions.

All the more so now that the budget has been handed down and Tony Abbott has intimated that Labor's "saves" will largely be adopted by the Coalition.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...hole-dont-add-up/story-fn53lw5p-1226644814475

Thanks Dutchie

 

[bunyip]

I gave the link for Costello's letter on Budget 2013 thread on 13 May.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion...ayne-swans-world/story-e6frfhqf-1226641521149

I must have missed it.

 

[sptrawler]

Well the dust is settling from the budget, Swan was insipid, Abbott was commanding.
Today it was a day of hiss and spit from the handbaggers.lol

All they needed was a misogynist, to bash.

 

[Julia]

All they needed was a misogynist, to bash.

Well, that little tactic only worked for a short time and has apparently now been consigned to the McTernan dust bin, after being exposed for the tacky confection that it was.

Now, we will all be driven witless by exponential repetition of the phrase "cut to the bone".
(Sigh)

 

[sptrawler]

Well, that little tactic only worked for a short time and has apparently now been consigned to the McTernan dust bin, after being exposed for the tacky confection that it was.

Now, we will all be driven witless by exponential repetition of the phrase "cut to the bone".
(Sigh)

Yes I think McTernan has been 'sussed out' Abbott landed several body blows to Labor.
Today in response it comes over as stupid babble about cutting to the bone.
Well, when the idiot government has continually blown the deficit, blind freddy knows it won't be easy to pull it in.

What Labor are saying today is "trust us we can fix it without cutting to the bone" no one believes them.

Everyone is over them and just want them to leave the party, but they have said we aren't going till 3a.m, don't you just hate those sort of people.lol
The funny thing is they get louder the longer the night goes on and the more you tell them to sod off, the more they dig in.
Oh well we will just have to wait till 3a.m, then call for a public eviction.

 

[Calliope]

Now, we will all be driven witless by exponential repetition of the phrase "cut to the bone".
(Sigh)

I think they should cut to the chase.

Julia Gillard Opens the batting on Thursday

AT the forthcoming election, the Leader of the Opposition will ask the Australian people to endorse his plans. Well, the Australian people are entitled to know what those plans are. Those plans, I believe, are to cut to the bone.

Penny Wong has a crack:

THAT is in the Liberal Party DNA. They always cut too hard and they always cut in the wrong places. Liberals cut to the bone.

Does Mark Dreyfus also have a bone to add? Yes, yes he does:

I'D end with this ... this is not the time to cut to the bone, which is what Tony Abbott is going to do.

Question time, here we come! Gillard on Thursday:

I WAS making the very simple point that the opportunity the Leader of the Opposition has tonight is to lay out his alternate choice for the nation, a choice to cut to the bone.

And Wayne Swan:

WE on this side of the house are prepared to make those investments; those on that side of the house have a plan for cuts to the bone.

Swan again:

CAMPBELL Newman ... cut to the bone in the state of Queensland.

And, in case you missed his drift:

THE Leader of the Opposition is going to try to skate through tonight not providing any great detail ... because he knows that if he told the Australian people about his plans, they would never accept those sorts of vicious cuts to the bone.

Jenny Macklin steps up to the plate:

WE know that the Schoolkids Bonus is helping parents; in contrast, this Leader of the Opposition just wants to get out there and cut it to the bone.

David Bradbury goes for gold:

WE will see cuts to payments, cuts to pensions - cuts to the bone ... People ... have the choice between a government that has fully funded commitments and will deliver big reforms ... or an opposition whose only plan is to make savage cuts, cuts to the bone.

Gillard wraps up question time:

THE Leader of the Opposition should detail every cut tonight, every cut to the bone. With those words, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.

The following day, the ABC news website has detected a pattern:

GILLARD says Coalition will "cut to the bone".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...-it-in-our-bones/story-fn72xczz-1226645601987

 

[MrBurns]

Now, we will all be driven witless by exponential repetition of the phrase "cut to the bone".
(Sigh)

You're not wrong there, do these people think we are all so stupid that we don't notice these pathetic tactics ?