Budget Night Bingo!

Found this at TPS…

http://www.politifact.com.au/truth-o-meter/article/2013/may/12/pollies-beware-Truth-O-Meter-open-business/

‘some fuckwit from a leftoid “think” tank’ was Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute, “the country’s most influential progressive think tank” according to their website.

They don’t even pretend to offer a diversity of opinion on the ABC.

“We’ve managed the tough times” (hic)

” that it is a crying shame the government has “lost” $150 Billion in revenue because of previous tax cuts and “loopholes”

They are actually Wayne Swans tax cuts so i am not sure why Costello gets a mention.

What gets me about lunatics like Koukamaniac is that they cannot blame Wayne Swan for the budget deficit. I mean Costello has been out of office for 6 years.

Ha ha you miss out on your $2 longnecks

Unfortunately, a coworker introduced me to the sublime pleasure of neat, expensive scotch about 9 months ago.

You definitely get what you pay for when it comes to decent whisky. Smooth as fuck.

Makes a mess…quickly.

All of you Abbottlickers (you know who you are) will be busy fixating on what a fucktard Swan is…but failing to project your imaginations forward a couple of years into the reign of Abbott & Hockey.

Teamplaying ideological golems.

‘The Daily Telegraph has learned the government has confirmed in the past few days, in a series of recent high level briefings, that the revised forecast for the world carbon price in today’s Budget would be between $12 and $15 a tonne.’

But…but… the European price is?

How many times did we hear Swan say he will return to Surplus during the normal course of economic cycle.

How loooooong is this f**king economic cycle ?

Peter Costello prepares Swans budget speech

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/nothing-adds-up-in-treasurer-wayne-swans-world/story-e6frfhqf-1226641521149

“Mr Speaker,

Well, it beats me and I hope it beats all of you because that is the whole point – to try to cloud the issue.”

I can possibly cope with a drinking game involving platitudes and excuses from Swan.

What I couldn’t keep up with is one involving a sip each time Catching Up posts a comment with a spelling error or blaming Howard & Costello, or Abbott.

I’d be pissed at 6.30am.

Am off today but think I’ll visit friends this evening, I’m sure I’ll hear all about it ad nauseum for the next few weeks & months, right up until the election. Not expecting any changes to the hysterical screeching commentary focus of this blog since the last election.

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Highlights from tonight’s trip into Fantasy Land will be

* A new $25 Billion Road and Rail infrastructure program to be announced probably with incentives for Super Funds to invest.

*Scrapping of the Baby Bonus and

* the best joke of the night will be Surplus 2015/2016 year

Oh…………….and there has been a few changes to the Thin Capitalisation Rules as well apparently.

The first figure everyone should Zero in on though is the Government Debt Ceiling Figure. That’s the actual worse case scenario for Treasury.

But really the only way Swan is going to get my attention is if he has something to add about Rolf Harris

Oh For Fucksake……………………………….The Baby Bonus will be scrapped but Family Benefit Part A will be INCREASED ……….!

These idiots just cannot help themselves.

“Also introduce means testing for everything, however the reality is that people earning over $180,000 only represent about 5% of the population…”

I agree

A “Family” on anything over $140K MUST NOT GET WELFARE. You cant do it straight away I grant you but you should be able to drop the limit by $10,000 per annum until you get down to around $120K.

It just encourages bigger and bigger houses that ultimately the taxpayer is subsidising the mortgage for.

Something must be done

Maybe some help with Childcare but thats it.

Then you can actually help pensioners properly and guess what Gillard you fucking idiot.

They might just vote for you

“revenue writedown”

++glug++

Over $120 million on a pilot program to coerce old empty nesters to give up their mansions and ‘downsize’.

Seems excessive.

“Sustainability”

That’s worth a bottle!

Gillard appears to be wearing a Grouho Marx mask.

Typically Leigh Sales goes easy on Swan.

She doesn’t ask why Swan didn’t qualify his promise of a surplus.

So Swan plans to provide a full decade of deficits, and he thinks this is good economic policy

Just heard on the radio we are now paying $14B/year on interest on the debt Labor has racked up since 2007.

It is a shame because we had no interest payments in 2007 because Costello had paid off all debt.

“This year we face the second largest revenue write-down since the Great Depression,” Mr Swan said in his budget speech.

Abolish Family Tax Benefit B

No increase to Tax Benefit A

No School Kid Bonus

No Gonski

Cut at least 20 000 jobs out of the Federal Public Service since it seems the laziest of those c*nts spend there days running a blog or complaining about how sick they are.

Cut harder into University funding except medical and science and get stuck up fucking academics to do lectures rather than paid articles and speeches.

Stop the ridiculous child care ratios that push up the cost of rebates .

I could go on

The major business changes seem to be

* changes to Thin Capitalisation Rules

* big business ( > $20m turnover )to pay PAYG income tax monthly

* changes to mining exploration costs.

So far I don’t see a lot for them to complain about. Most businesses with turnovers like that have an accountant.

But it is more red tape but no incentives

And extend the GST to food .

But increase the pensions and dole as well

How come forecast boat arrivals are 21,000 in one year and they drop the next year to 14,000 ?

And that coincides with the forecast surplus.

The other budget cut ?

Cut the Ford Holden and Toyota free

And i should add that the share market is doing rather rather well, even tonight. LOL.

FFS.

Oscar Wilde: “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

And the evidence is above.

‘How come forecast boat arrivals are 21,000 in one year and they drop the next year to 14,000 ?

‘And that coincides with the forecast surplus.’

Well caught.

‘Labor has pressed the button on big and iconic spending initiatives out to 2020, designed to warm ALP hearts in the coming wilderness. It is a dangerous step.’

Paul Kelly in the Oz

“(Although I don’t recall anyone complaining about the Attorney General).”

Well faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark me…………..

Is there is no end to this Government’s deception.

So Mark Dreyfuss is a woman………….??????????????????????

Today even Laura Tingle ( not too unkind to the Government in the past) in the AFR
has today seen through last night’s Budget and compares it to the “scorched earth” policies of the Soviet Union as it retreated from the German Army destroying everything it could and leaving only ruins behind for its political enemy.

It’s going to be very interesting how the Opinion Polls see this Budget. I get the feeling that just like Laura Tingle plenty of voters will also see it as just downright economically malicious in its intent and judge the government accordingly.

I don’t think the polls will narrow too much at all much like they never did in NSW , Queensland or WA. The voters have made up their mind.

The recurring image I have is of a voter who now has the baseball bat well in hand …………………….who has now had a few practice swings (in NSW, Queensland and WA)………………. and now he or she stands poised ready with the bat raised behind their head just waiting………………just waiting………………….until September when the target finally comes into sight.

Then WHACK…………………straight out of the Stadium

”The lone dissenting voice is scaper, who so far, despite the odds, has escaped a random banning.”

It’s hilarious!!

The single most discredited, delusional, dumb contributor in the blogosphere is towelling up the cafe crowd without any effort. It says plenty about the overall level of intelligence.

I think they’ll soon have to ban scpaer, as they hate to be defeated so regularly in a debate, but is it possible for them to find a dumber opponent?

Perhaps Bacchus can invent another sockpuppet.

Did anyone else notice that the Oz has dropped its paywall today ?

Neil doens’t even try, doesn’t raise a sweat, there’s no need. Neil just posts a factual comment, draws in a couple of dozen mindless types, and snots them.

I don’t know the others, but if they’re smart, they’ll be banned soon.

But what about global warming?

‘Ironically, the area where the government has attempted to sneakily take the heat out of their expenses spreadsheet is its climate change and renewable energies initiatives. Its pride and joy.

‘It has deferred its $3 billion Australian Renewable Energy Agency program by three years, “saving” $370 million in the forward estimates.

‘The agency will happen, apparently, just not this side of 2018.

‘It has moved $500 million worth of funding under its Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships Program into years outside the forward estimates, and, in the same sentence, once again, referred to that clear case of fudging as “savings”.

Andrew Carswell in the Terror

Hilarious.

Parliament’s back and 4 ALP members miss a vote all because they are at lunch resulting in an Opposition amendment to a minor Superannuation Bill being voted on and passed.

That’s what happens when you get rid of all your veteran whips after a leadership challenge .

So now the Chief Grub cant even control her own MPs

Chaos reigns supreme

Perhaps Gillard’s tears were the result of realisation that she’s going to be slaughtered in a few months, by a politician that people don’t even like or respect.

She’s loaded up with an incompetent Treasurer/deputy and a particularly low grade ministry. She has more talent on the backbench than on the front.

Anyone would cry.

Since I couldn’t make it here on budget night, I’ll be playing my own game of Tony Abbott’s Budget-in-reply bingo tonight. Don’t mind me, just go about your business.

We’re a good people let down by a bad government.

Hear, hear.

“No surprises and no excuses”

Chugalug

Margy? I dunno. His missus.

Gillard looks angry.

😯

he talks as if he thinks a surplus is a bad thing

“Tough cop on the beat”

Guzzle

“Foreign policy based on Jakarta, not Geneva”

😯

Budget Crisis.

Skol.

“A Grown-up Government”

Nice.

“The federal government employs six thousand health bureaucrats even though it doesn’t run a single hospital.”

Gimmee another drink, FFS.

”What did he say on superannuation?

According to ALP barrackers I predict he will have said-
• No woman shall have an abortion
• George Pell will be the next Governor General, followed by Sir Rupert Murdoch*
• The tax on superannuation for low income earners will be 100%
• People in the mining industry will be required to work for $2 per day
• Gina Reinhart is tax exempt

* did I mention that he intends to restore imperial honours?

“LOL! I’m downloading it right now on uTorrent!!!!”

I think it’s one of the best ww2 movies ever. Not forgetting Das Boat .

“I have to admit, despite how much I hate him, it was a really good speech…”

I’ve never really liked him since university . He kept shutting things down with his dumb protests.

A mate of mine reminded me the other night that he got a Radio Birdman concert cancelled.

But he was PM stuff tonight

“Pathetic,” he said. s’ That’s what it is. Pathetic.”

He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again.

“As I thought,” he said. “No better from this side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that’s what it is.”

I missed the whole thing, but after reading the comments here it appears the Coalition will win the next election in a canter.

The baby bonus dumping was a popular move… 93% of SMH readers support the idea.

TB you can harp on all you want about the superannuation change but as an example of rising business costs Palm Beach will lose another of its Cafes on Sundays.

An owner of 2 cafes where I sometimes get Sunday breakfast is closing up one shop on Sundays and laying off permanently 2 casual staff who are Uni and Tafe students . Needless to say they were in tears when told.

He is also not going to open either shop at all on public holidays.

The minimum rate for casuals according to him is $21.31 per hour and on a Sunday its $30.00 per hour which with super, payroll tax and workers comp becomes $34.30 according to him.

If it’s a public holiday the rate after on costs becomes $48.00 per hour. Like he said he just cant sell enough cappucinnos or croissants to cover it anymore.

And he’s not a well to do either . He drives a Toyota Hiace and his wife drives a 10 year old Holden and they live in the north west of Sydney at Hornsby.

This nation has its head up its arse if it still thinks it can pay penalties like that fashioned from an era when things were only open Monday to Friday yet we all know it’s a Monday to Sunday world now.

These are the job losses we dont hear about.

Lord knows what the real rate of underemployment is if you only ned to work 1 hour per week to be counted as “employed”

Students need work, in cafes and retail. They don’t need $40/hr on Sundays to earn some spending money.

It now seems likely that a double D election won’t be necessary, as they are confident of winning both houses in a landslide.

This is necessary if we are to dismantle that pernicious tax.

“Its not “punitive” its the cost of business … the cost of wanting a seven day working week … pushed for by the retailers association … not workers …”

I’m talking about food retail not merchandise.

Most people I know tend to eat 7 days per week LOL

I’m with you, TB.

Only the ‘established’, those who have the fat wallet to expect ‘service’, call for the dismantling of awards &/or penalty rates.

Easy from afar, when you aren’t the one working obscure, anti-social hours.

“Only the ‘established’, those who have the fat wallet to expect ‘service’, call for the dismantling of awards &/or penalty rates.
Easy from afar, when you aren’t the one working obscure, anti-social hours.”

That’s strange. I never realized that in the 21st century Saturdays and Sundays are so obscure and anti-social.

I must try and keep up with the times.

Anyway I don’t give a “rats” whether they get abolished or not since I can go and get Sunday breakfast somewhere else. More commonly these days from a family operation where the sons and daughters work for ordinary or perhaps time and a half at best on a Saturday or Sunday.

Oh and never mind that those types of operations make it even more difficult for the café owner I’m talking about to compete under the Award.

Those 2 Uni/TAFE students I’d imagine are quite happy now to not even have jobs . A huge relief I’d imagine.

I’m sure they’ll enjoy their extra leisure time on the weekend whilst living in abject squalor.

Better to have no job at all and live in poverty rather than be exploited by being paid anything less than double time.

Yep………………….us oldies sure know better about what’s good for them.

“I never realized that in the 21st century Saturdays and Sundays are so obscure and anti-social.”

That hardly surprises me.

While the rest of the country knocks off on Friday afternoon, returning to work on Monday, it’s those getting penalty rates who ‘miss out’ on that same, common (to non obscure hour working) leisure time.

“………………….us oldies sure know better about what’s good for them.”

Bullshit. Some do, others are so far removed from ‘how the other half live’ that they will always struggle to comprehend their subsistence existences.

Easy to advocate taking a little off of some poor bastard, working antisocial hours, who is on crumbs anyway…but usually only easy if the perspective is from On High.

“And conditions, T, public holidays, annual leave, long service leave … these days worker comp is at risk!”

Afknmen…and I mean that in the most unreligious way that I can possibly convey the sentiment.

The fuckers would prefer a whole workforce comprised of Labour Hire Agency workers. Expendable, no need for annual leave, sick leave etc.

What a Glorious New World under the unconstrained Freemarketeers.

It’s hard to get a leg up when the shiny shoes of the monopoly entitled are on your fucken head.

I don’t necessarily see your stance as vindictive, Evil One.

I can see sense in what you are saying…but, I am predisposed to strongly resist the targeting of conditions of employment. They tend to be removed, but rarely reinstated.

It is possible to arrange penalties that promote small business, for example, retail or hospitality business that are sole proprietors and employ (say) less than 15 people, can employ full time students on weekends at the base casual rate.

What’s the problem with this?

(other than speculation about thin ends of wedges)
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I’m now off for plenty of red, and some food.

“What’s the problem with this?”

Well, not everyone who works weekends is a student, for a start.

And, did I mention “it’s an incremental process of erosion of conditions of employment.”?

One sided flexibility, reb, sold under the guise of ‘options’ to the employee. Not in this Labour market though.

More like the ‘flexibility’ to cut Labour costs (warranted or therwise, it places all Labour in the crosshairs; particularly young & unskilled).

Conditions were hard fought; something that non-Labour employees are often ignorant of.

They are much easier to coerce, cajole, extricate & remove. Enterprise bargaining is a double edged sword; particularly if a majority of the bottom end of the Enterprise is uninformed.
At least there is strength in numbers; something which the employees of small business are bereft of; hence the ease of targeting them.

While we are at it lets go to big business.

Lets assume you all are in favour of keeping Holden and Ford here.

If Holden and Ford receive taxpayers money shouldn’t they go under a “quarantine” from general IR laws.

If you and I are paying for uneconomic vehicles why should ANYONE get penalties or any salary increase

That might be a bit abrupt the way I have phrased it but I chunk you can see where I’m coming from.

Meanwhile here in SA. Car companies shafted the SA gov.
Mitsubishi did get help, then pulled the pin, after the 380 flopped.
Holden is likely to do the same judging by their latest stunt after being given squillions.
Yeh, don’t hold your hopes to high on the libs helping small business.
I don’t remember getting any help from them when I started up in small business in 2000.
When GST goes up we will just be collecting more tax for them.
Rent is a problem, it is becoming a growing trend for business people buying their business premises as a super investment, then renting back to yourself……If you can afford it.

Too many trying too fleece too many … welcome to the free market economy … eventually (intelligent) people wake up and have family occasions at home …

Exactly, australian ‘battlers’ have decided that they hate working for anybody, can’t take orders from anyone, they all know best and why shouldn’t they just grab the customers and profits themselves. Lots of great tax incentives too, courtesy of our trickle up economic system. They expect employees to dangle on the end of the phone for the 1 or 2 hrs of work they throw their way. They whinge about paying any tax, no-one else works as hard as they do, and dole bludgers and the poor are just lazy shits who have never tried or wanted to better themselves, whip them or force them into the army to sort them out.

Oh, and the government should give them every assistance and make their employees work for next to nothing, no right to refuse any and every demand made of them [duty related or not] while imposing no obligations on the business owner. Workers should never whinge about anything because they have the magical saviour of superannuation [taxed more for the poor] for a future time when they are too sick and defeated to ever enjoy it.

*sniff*