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Coalition caught out misleading the nation over infrastructure investment : Comments
By Anthony Albanese, published 2/2/2017It is an article of faith for propagandists that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
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Posted by Foxy, Sunday, 5 February 2017 1:17:39 PM
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Dear Shadow Minister,
You wrote; “Coming from a government that wasted $16bn building school halls that were worth a fraction of that.” Absolute tosh. More 'alternative' facts, unless of course you can back any of it up. Rudd was at the top of the tree of world leaders who saw the GFC coming and took concrete and highly effective steps to mitigate the damage. Now that your hero Trump is setting about dismantling the protections Obama put in place to prevent another collapse we may well experience it all over again. “President Trump on Friday moved to chisel away at the Obama administration’s legacy on financial regulation, announcing steps to revisit the rules enacted after the 2008 financial crisis and to back away from a measure intended to protect consumers from bad investment advice.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/business/dealbook/trump-congress-financial-regulations.html For all his other faults there is not a single person in the Liberal party who would have the intelligence or the imagination to do what Rudd did. God help us. Posted by SteeleRedux, Sunday, 5 February 2017 8:17:04 PM
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Here we are arguing about exactly how much money we are spending
that we haven't got. All that money that has been spent on solar & wind that will have to be written off ! Posted by Bazz, Monday, 6 February 2017 1:55:21 PM
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Foxy,
Considering that it was Albanese who was pointing the bone, I simply thought that I should point out his own party's fiscal incompetence. SR, A little rich coming from the chief purveyor of Labor lies. http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/gfc-stimulus-harmed-economy-report-says/news-story/b9fe23ae1e512d3e2befe64c56fffc19 http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/school-billions-miss-their-target-in-rush-to-spend-rudd-stimulus-money-20100214-nzkp.html And there are many more... It is a matter of record that the stimulus packages were poorly designed, largely ineffective, left the country with virtually no productive infrastructure, and is a text book example of how not to respond. Posted by Shadow Minister, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 7:52:33 AM
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Dear Shadow Minister,
That is precisely the kind of reaction that Australian voters are getting sick and tired of politicians doing. Don't fall into the same trap. Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 8:54:34 AM
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cont'd ...
Here is a link that totally disagrees with your cited perspectives: http://www.onlineopinion.com/view.asp?article=15380&page=0 Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 9:15:40 AM
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It is pointless finger-pointing and blaming the other
side for one's own failings. Both sides of politics
of course do that. That seems to be the way the game
is played. However the following link gives us a
partial insight into why this is so. Kindly don't brush it
aside as a "Left-wing whinge." Do try to keep an open
mind if you can.
http://theconversation.com/election-2016-will-the-infrastructure-promises-meet-australias-needs-61140