I found last nights budget delivered by Labor's Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, with its modest forecast of a $4.2 billion surplus, and some reasonable expenditure outlays, to be an acceptably good budget, certainly not excellent, but it should be pleasing to most sections of Australian society. What do others think?

Paul it is an election budget that will drive higher inflation and interest rates as there is too much free money without productivity.

Jose,

There is no election in the offing, so its not an election budget. Independent analysis puts the inflationary effect at minus 0.75%. As for so called "free money", that will come with the 'Noalitions' already legislated tax cuts for the rich. Other than government payments they receive, those of your mentality want the less fortunate in society penalised for being undeserving.

tend to agree with Josephus, but unfortunately there are too many people that find that they have to live off social security and are therefore unable to contribute to society. The fortunate people in society are the ones that live in a family where self discipline is imposed at an early age and the importance of education is instilled. A prime example is of course is Albanese who grew up in a single parent household whose mother recognised the importance of these things. We seem to have lost the value of living without excess of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling etc which all create disruptive behaviour and a bad environment to grow up in. But we don’t appear to draw attention to these things as we did in the past and it is now more politically correct to avoid doing so. How many of the population are single parents who don’t have the capacity because often the father (if known) doesn’t even make a contribution to the upbringing of his child. The lucky offspring is the one who gets a good education and some of the modern advantages that are now on offer which perhaps were not available years ago. The problem is in many cases (not all in the case of disability) of having the intelligence and general education taught at home that behaviour in a pluralistic society is important and respected. There is also a liability to regard the government as a cash cow with all the entitlements that sometimes get abused. There are always exceptions to what I have mentioned here which I am not in a position to deny and readily acknowledge. It’s hard to express an opinion in only a few words and apologise for my generalisation.

This is a typical Labor budget, Labor plans to spend big and promises a budget surplus just as Whine Swan did many times before.

Instead, we ended up with $trillion of Labor debt and buckets of money wasted on the school hall debacle etc.

Labor have already lost it ! At our expense I should add.