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Flushing the fair go : Comments

By Andrew Leigh, published 23/5/2014

Budgets are like plumbing. If everything works as it should, then no-one takes much notice. But get it wrong, and things start to smell bad fast.

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Mind you Andrew it is good to see you've stopped trying to corrupt the meaning of our egalitarianism.

Well done. Credit where it is due.
Posted by imajulianutter, Friday, 23 May 2014 5:25:00 PM
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Labor supporters are in a massive panic to portray Abbott in the light they do. They believe by singleing out Abbott they can stir up the rest of the Coalition against him & thus breaking up this Government. It really is a sickening display of total lack of integrity. They really are the stuff that goes down the toilet.
Andrew could you please explain why Labor didn't implement the economic strategies they're waffling on about now, whilst they were still in government ?
Posted by individual, Friday, 23 May 2014 7:21:59 PM
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Andrew, by the way it was Labor who did the flushing of the fair go many years ago when they created the hangers-on brigade within the left. There's nothing fair about the working class having to support the bureaucrats.
Perhaps this will ring a bell ?
fair go Austral./NZ informal used for emphasis or to request someone to be reasonable or fair: Fair go! How can I ask a thing like that?
A thing like asking us to support so many useless & incomptent people for nothing whatsoever in return, not even basic gratitude.
Now that this Government is asking people to pull at least some of their weight the lefties are screaming blue murder. What integrity devoid moronic creeps.
Posted by individual, Friday, 23 May 2014 7:32:23 PM
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To be inherently fair, when bagging someone else's ideas, the truly ethical or Labor, would enunciate their alternatives.
If the opposition thinks that their ideas are just too brilliant to share, then they do have the option to block supply, and then put them to the people?
Always providing it isn't more of the same incompetent rubbish that led to the landslide against them initially!
For mine, it really is past time we stopped playing the blame game, and or, the divide and rule philosophy, that sets Australian against Australian, at the time, we should be standing shoulder to shoulder against the world!
We need to stop selling our "economic sovereignty", and just cease importing 91% of our oil requirements at a cost to the economy of 26+ billions per. If we weren't so dumb, we would at the very least access our own oil and keep this money onshore.
And then allow it to percolate through and around our domestic economy, where given the usual multiplier factors and leveraging, it could do as much as 175 billions worth of economic work inside the domestic economy!
I also believe, Labor can drag back all that it lost to the greens support and more, if they once again embraced work friendly policies, even if that meant, mining the reef!
Economies work at their very best, when our still very finite money supply, passes through as many Australian hands as possible!
I am really very tired of our so called leaders, inventing myriad and quite fallacious reasons, that that just can't be done.
Moreover, the traditional fuels we can recover here, produce four times less carbon than that which we import!
That being so, makes a complete nonsense out of really dumb green inspired objections, against mining the reef, or even dumber ones, coming from the other side, that say the government has no business in business!
What's the only other alternative?
Our remaining economic sovereignty sold at bargain basement prices; and another four trillions of foreign debt, and we Australians beggars in our own, sold down the river, country?
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Friday, 23 May 2014 11:50:03 PM
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then they do have the option to block supply,
Rhrosty,
Yes if the concern is that a policy is detrimental to the scheme of things but in the case of Labor intending to block literally everything is nothing short of treason. It has nothing to do with genuine concern but has everything to do with plain moronic vindictiveness & spite. School kids act like that on occasions just like Billy the Kid does now.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 24 May 2014 9:47:27 AM
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Don't worry individual, nobody on Labor's side, has the testicular fortitude to actually block supply, any more than Tony Abbott is going to bring on a double dissolution!
One needs courage of conviction to choose either path, and that is in seriously short supply right now, when the aim is to just occupy the treasury benches, and far queue.
Labor learned a huge lesson from Dr Noooo, during its last term of government, and it is using it against the coalition.
All you need to do is continually remind the people that the leader is a wriggling worm, who has broken core promises!
The hate message just works too well, and consequently, Tony Abbott's political career is already in it's last days?
Everyone has parents and or grandparents, and too many of them, including Clive Palmer's mum, are being unfairly and harshly targeted by the coalition's very first budget.
And given that is so, we can all of us see it, and happening to our own!
Therefore the negative campaign is working big time!
And even more pain is flagged, if the coalition wins the next election!
Every successful business man can tell you, they are targeting the wrong demographic and in so doing, have seriously harmed discretionary spending, which in turn can only ever result in economic contraction; which hurts the employer class far more than the average worker, who arguably has no fat to cut!
There were other options, which included REAL tax reform and growing the economy!
To in effect trade out of difficulty!
This is what every successful business will resort to as the first choice, but particularly, when good staff are more or less an extended and loyal family!
Everyone needs to share the pain?
Yeah sure they do!
Problem is, those with the least are being asked to carry the lions share, and every fair-minded person among us knows it, hence the huge backlash against the Coalition!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Saturday, 24 May 2014 10:52:21 AM
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