JKJ,

No - there is not a budget emergency.

If you had interpreted that cartoon correctly you would realise that Hockey's "budget emergency" (the fake one) has proven to be a dud. It's represented by the stunned cat which he is thumping against the glass to release the next "emergency"...the one based on a terrorist threat.

When all is said and done, the budget emergency was introduced to facilitate an agenda - and the latest spin is to take the population for a further walk up the garden path in order to make Abbott look like a statesman and to address his woeful polls.

Simple really.

Please provide a detailed, link free, description of your solution to this global problem.
ConservativeHippie,
Instead of giving money in foregn aid send free contraception & sterilising food to the Middle east & wherever people breed too much & expect us to keep them.
The Australian Tax Office should have boxes to tick in the Tax forms which ask which organisation you want to give your aid dollar too.
Do not provide residency Visa for people who do not want to denounce religion of any flavour.
We need to cut back on the number of religious morons if we want God to take us serious.

Poirot

Your evasion = intellectual dishonesty.

JKJ,

Your raising of other issues in my direction = attempting to post off topic.

Hi Hal,

The Azov Platoon ? Piss ants. Vlasov ? A division. Mind you, I feel great sympathy for him, he was caught in a terrible dilemma, and was hanged for his choices, the last 'pro-Nazi' to be hanged by the Soviets.

Seruously, ALL Eastern European countries had their share of supposedly Nazi-sympathisers during the Second World War much of it 'understandable' in response to Stalin's bullying: and after all, Russia DID invade all of eastern Poland in 1939 (hence Katyn).

And I can understand why Ukrainians - the few who actually did - would side with the Nazis, after the dreadful famine inflicted on them by Stalin, after whom I was named, a famine that even Gorbachev wrote of in condemning words, witnessing as a child bodies in the streets of his village.

In other words, there wasn't much to choose between Stalin's fascism, dressed up as 'socialism', and Hitler's.

What is quite amazing is not only the paucity of fascist support for the Ukrainian government but the strong Russian support for fascisms of all sorts, the Pan-Eurasian League or whatever it's called, Zhirinovsky's influence over Putin, etc. Putin's Russia is, after all, imperialist as well as proto-fascist, isn't that so ?

Keep your eye on Kazakhstan, after Putin's veiled threat against its President, Hal.

Also watch how China deals with Russia's invasion and dismemberment of Ukraine.

No love between imperialists, that's for sure :) 'Fascism means war', as Dimitrov wrote, before Stalin had him killed off.

Joe

sending young guys to their death on their behalf.
Ojnab,
Wrong,
These young guys are literally wasting their life for the likes of you. You're not worth it judging by your posts.