$50 Billion Budget blowout mocks Govt’s “Superior Economic Managers” Claim

That’s all very well but has the Abbott Government actually lied to anyone?

No one they give a shit about. 😉

And this whole problem was created by the ALP and the people who voted for them in 2007.

I think we are doomed. Labor cannot solve the problem they only create problems.

It has become so bad that Hockey is our only hope..

What a dud Hockey has proven to be. An opportunistic senate full of economic illiterates is only partly to blame.

Does anyone still think we shouldn’t worry about deficits?

Does anyone still think we shouldn’t worry about deficits?

Does anyone say that?

Perhaps you mean “worry so much” 😉

A deficit alone is not a problem, particularly if the economy is sift or external factors difficult

But, when you run a scare campaign so strong and hard without ever acknowledging it, and then find yourself in the position where a deficit is largely unavoidable, then I wish all the bad karma right back at ya

Sucked shit hockey and the libs, you are simply reaping what you have sown.

And, even now, they refuse to have an “adult” conversation about the budget, falling back on “less tax” and “bad Labor” sloganeering, even after Labor offered up olive branches of policies that they could piggy back off.

yabots witch hunt is becoming overly blatant now it appears

And yet the multinationals … keep on ripping us off

Which brings us to this comment TB

How many times to pollies have to review and report on the impracticalities of collecting GST in the interwebby

Every time the multinationals get busted ripping us off 😉

LOOK OVER THERE!

Wakey wakey nIl

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-04/verrender-document-reveals-tax-multinationals-should-pay/6441558

I recall rudd being accused of, guess what? class warfare! Swan was also accused of it

Every time Labor attempted reform, reform which now the media and grubmint (at times) are actually arguing for, they were slammed with the “class warfare” tag AO.

How much money is this witch hunt going to take up?

Is this the same twiggy who makes policy on the run for this grubmint TB?

nd their target will probably be anyone in or associated with a Union

I don’t know that union activism is a problem for any of those businesses. Unions seem to have successfully put (private sector) unionised organisations out of their misery.

Interest rates down to 2%

“they’re not cutting interest rates because the economy is doing well. Interest rates are being cut to 50 year lows because the economy is struggling.”

better value

I can’t think of better value than not giving mining skivers my tax yomm 😉

Maybe confidence in the Senate has “jumped” …

Pay that one TB 😉

From your link

“The ABC has been told it is protocol for an ambassador’s partner or spouse to be part of a welcoming party when the prime minister is travelling with his or her spouse.

The decision is most often made by staff or foreign affairs department, according to protocols.

Sounds like some Public Servant being anal with diplomatic protocol.

Bolt gives an explanation

I think the term is “piss poor excuse”

Yep, it is gutter politics. Sucked shit yabot . But, if you don’t want gutter politics, don’t play in the fucken gutter. And he deserves all that can be thrown at him. As for Shorten “toughening Up”, even what he did gets him attacked enough. I mean, that article alone drifted off to leadershit and backstabbing, the incident becomes all abot Shorten, not the PM whose office acted like such fuckwits in the first place. It’s really pathetic. We barely heard about yabot backstabbing the nbn killer, but a story about a homophobic pm office and it scrapes up old leadershit in Labor. And the abc article is simply a complete list of excuses and scapegoats, running a very poor backward defense. The public broadcaster has been pussy whipped into obedience it seems. It offers up many excuses, but doesn’t ever get to the guts, or even try to. Who made the call? And did yabot know? And if not, why not?

So, who will lose their job. I mean, the media guy lost his job over the Australia Day incident with Gillard, even though yabot started that one too, and all the media guy did was tell the public where a public figure was attending a public function ffs.

But no one will lose their job here because our pommypm felt “threatened” by a gay man will they? And the media will get this off the front pages as quickly as they forgot about yabot lying about talking to European “officials” on asylum seekers. The lies and bad behaviour come so thick and fast, but are moved on so quickly and succinctly, that it is almost like they didn’t happen. Did they?

Meanwhile, we are still reminded of ancient leadershit!

I don’t think Abbott is a homophobe

Maybe not, but that doesn’t stop him from being a pretentious imperious knob.

#threatened #overkill #hashtagyesweknowitis 😯

Meanwhile, in the midst of a “budget emergency”, the grubmint continue their witch hunt, regardless of the cost. A witch hunt that has miraculously been extended out to “the next election”. Can it be more obviously partisan political?

were made to feel like second class citizens

It’s a common theme with this mob who actually run the “class warfare” meme every time their mates are threatened.

Apparently it is diplomatic protocol.

Abbott travelling by himself is meet by the ambassador by himself.

Abbott travelling with his wife is meet by the Ambassador and his wife/partner.

The arrival was a small non-ceremonial event.

So what. These Public Servant types are anal about protocol.

Do we honestly think that the ambassador’s spouse would’ve been told to wait in the car if his partner was his wife?

That is what would have happened. And Abbott certainly would have nothing to do with who meets him at the airport.

Australians have politely asked if Prime Minister Tony Abbott would mind waiting in the car while they continue with 2015.

http://www.theshovel.com.au/2015/05/05/australia-asks-tony-abbott-to-wait-in-the-car-while-they-get-on-with-the-21st-century/

I don’t think it’s satire 😉

These Public Servant types are anal about protocol.

If they were anal about protocol, wouldn’t they have known that protocol wasn’t required in this situation?

But his staff clearly did.

And did yabot? I fear that he has “questions to answer” ROFL

With the budget less than a week away, here’s how the Government could reap billions in new revenue each year without targeting the poorest among us, writes Greg Jericho.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-06/jericho-a-path-to-surplus-that-doesnt-gouge-the-poor/6447744

I know they want it to be “dull and boring”, but I don’t think it can be. They made too much of it in opposition for us just to forget about it now. Mind you, they are pulling out all stops in hte “dull and boring” stakes.

But his staff clearly did.

No the Public Servant Protocol Officer did.

to more efficiency and value out of the taxes we already pay.

Except, as hockey found out, the ps is already running at a very efficient rate. They tried cutting further, but instead just broke things. This “efficiency” thing is so 20103 yomm. It has been exposed. labor cut to the bone. The libs went further, then wondered why we no longer have any idea what the actual unemployment rate, why our science departments are fracturing.

Always looking for the cut that isn’t there, yet, when someone points out that there is revenue (TAXES) sitting there, straight back to “cut”.

Move Along time I think yomm

No the Public Servant Protocol Officer did.

You mean, the one on his staff who called to tell the gay guy to stay in the car? 😉

What even is that?

From my earlier link

“literally screaming” at the protocol person

Apparently these people exist.

What a surprise, a CFMEU official says CFMEU officials do a great job!

Apparently these people exist.

Soon to be known as “Joe the Cameraman” I reckon.

With the budget less than a week away, here’s how the Government could reap billions in new revenue each year without targeting the poorest among us, writes Greg Jericho.

Why doesn’t Jericho resign from his job and seek election in the ALP and become Treasurer.

Trouble with these armchair critics is that it is not as easy as they think.

Jericho is just another dumb leftie who starts to worry about the budget after the Coalition is in power. Just like with Children in Detention.

basically not understanding protocol.

The slow is strong in the slow ones today.

“…Do we honestly think that the ambassador’s spouse would’ve been told to wait in the car if hi partner was his wife?…”

If the name was peta and not Peter 🙂

BTW, does Abbott just sit in the car mute while this is going on?
Who is the boss giving the directions to staff?

BTW, does Abbott just sit in the car mute while this is going on?

Depends on what peta says

Who is the boss giving the directions to staff?

See above 😉

pyne, proving yet again that he seems ideologically opposed to education

The Abbott government will axe funding for The Conversation website in next week’s budget, Education Minister Christopher Pyne says.

The Conversation, whose executive director is former Age editor Andrew Jaspan, was created in 2011 to give academics a platform to promote their research to a broader audience.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/government-funding-for-the-conversation-website-to-be-axed-christopher-pyne-20150505-ggv19d.html

Public service – the inefficiency isn’t just with Commonwealth public servants.

The federal government funds the health sector, where there has been a HUGE growth in non patient related overheads in the past decade or so. It funds local governments – ditto

…and the Victorian treasurer has just announced that public service wage related costs will increase by over 7% this year

There is plenty of room for efficiency in the money the government already collects.

For all this bleating about Negative Gearing (which I admit could do with a workover) dont forget that with interest rates this low Negatve Gearing just aint that negative anymore

There is plenty of room for efficiency in the money the government already collects.

That’s just what hokeypokey and his deficit plan used to play. Seems they couldn’t find it with razors even more inconsiderate than your yomm. I’m sure they’d love to see this “waste and mismanagement” they harped on about. 😉

Great choice of song, Tom R.

As always 🙂 I looked for a live one, but well, they really aren’t that great live, unless you are there.

I love SEEING them live, great showmen, great songs, but their musical talent ………………. oh wells

Now that would be just hilarious.

I wouldn’t put anything past anyone in this political climate.

REB 4 GREENS COMMISSAR!

The rush to blame Abbott personally for this incident and to use it to damn him as homophobic is cynical and wilfully dishonest. It doesn’t even make sense.

I am more anti-labor than pro=coalition but it is things like the protocol thing that confirms to me that most labor supporters have no principles. Everything they do seems to be for political advantage. It just depends what side of the bed they get out of what principle they will stand by.

“I’m sure they’d love to see this “waste and mismanagement” they harped on about.

Compare an organisation chart of a hospital or local government – today vs a decade ago.

Apparently, the pommypm thinks that it is below him to personally tell the gay guy to stay in the car. It’s all in the wording really 😉

Apparently, the pommypm thinks that it is below him to personally tell the gay guy to stay in the car

Did you call Gillard the Welsh PM. You really are a nasty person totally suitable for the ALP.

“PM says he’s the PM and “doesn’t concern himself” with protocol questions which are the job of a “junior”.

What is wrong with that??

As I said… let’s ignore the judicial findings, the 87 prosecutions (most of which involve multiple breaches)

Let’s ignore that this latest prosecution was caused by the CFMEU taking action against an employer that wished to make a union agreement, just not with that union.

Let’s just face it, it’s only the CFMEU that has a right to represent workers.

I think it’s fair to say that the CFMEU thinks that other unions eg AWU don’t have eights to represent workers without their permission.

And employers that deal with the AWU are likely to get into a serious union turf war.

But why would we get concerned about that?

What do the libs have against public transport. Soon it will be as underfunded as Public Schools to the point where they can no longer deliver acceptable services.

Oh………

Yeah!!

Unions should be free to please themselves about the law. Why should they have to obey things like that? Laws get in the way of unions, particularly when they want to have a blue with another union about which union people should be corralled into.

Laws are for wimps.

(same goes for taxes)

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/disgraceful-liberal-frontbencher-challenges-report-of-pm-snub-20150506-ggv2d4.html

“Mr Tudge said that his understanding was that the usual protocol required that if a Prime Minister was travelling with his or her spouse, then the ambassador would be accompanied by his or her spouse.

In this instance, Mr Abbott had been travelling without wife Margie and so “in that instance the usual protocol in my understanding is that the ambassador would therefore greet the Prime Minister by his or herself”.

what is with your recent spate of cheerleading for the CFMEU crime syndicate?

Probably because there has been a recent spate of attacks on Unions, and a recent spate of Unions protecting workers, and a recent spate of workers being exploited where the Unions are not able to protect workers

Speaking Spately of of course 😉

Tom R behind the wheel

Not that I’d mind 😉

Notice how the Young Liberal Troll is still pursuing – nay, pushing – the “protocol” story

Even though, apparently, there are no guidelines over who meets the pommypm, contradicting stories throughout the day defended the threatened pommypm

http://tenplay.com.au/news/national/2015/5/6/same-sex-partner-snubbed

At about 1.50 😉

… all quiet on the budget front ..

patience Grasshopper. The fun is yet to begin 🙂

“Probably because there has been a recent spate of attacks on Unions”

Tom R probably thinks this is an “attack”…

The concept of the rule of law was anathema to it.
The table contained a list of some 87 cases, involving contraventions of industrial legislation by the CFMEU, since 1999. In most of these cases the CFMEU was found to have sought, by means of threats, coercion or unlawful industrial action, to achieve industrial outcomes. Most of the cases involved multiple contraventions.
…the CFMEU’s record as being “dismal” and indicating “an attitude of indifference … to compliance with the requirements of the legislation ….
They, nonetheless, bespeak a deplorable attitude, on the part of the CFMEU, to its legal obligations and the statutory processes which govern relations between unions and employers in this country. This ongoing willingness to engage in contravening conduct must weigh heavily when the need for both specific and general deterrence is brought to account.

Some members of the judiciary have form in “attacking” criminals and those with a contempt for the law.

We’ll see how much AbbottCorp cares about it, Kneel.

It’s most likely that it will be a ‘saving their political arses’ budget, after last year’s repudiation.

You may find that AbbottCorp talked up the debt way harder when it was far less, then tried using that hyperbole to lubricate the implementation of ideologically masturbatory budget ‘fixes’ last year.

They have painted themselves, and you, into an almost inextricable corner. They are now unlikely to take drastic remedial budget action for fear of their political hides.

and those with a contempt for the law.

When a Union is fined $1.25 million over a dispute with Grocon about serious safety breaches and then that company is only fined just $250,000 after pleading guilty to its role in the deaths of three innocent people , then I would argue that some of the laws deserve contempt.

Wow they are supposed to clean up the mess in 2 years.

Well, that’s what they told us they’d do.

Also, their overblown negativity about debt has become a self fulfilling prophecy, whereby the horses are well and truly spooked.

Precisely. In the shadow of the GST, we had one half of the political spectrum, and the vast majority of the media aligned with them, talking down the economy every step of the way, spooking investment and raising “sovereign threat” on an almost daily basis. You really cannot blame business leaders for listening, after all, these were the supposed economic geniuses.

That myth is well and truly shattered now, in less than two years.

All indications to date are that this will be an “election” budget, with goodies rather than nasties. The “budget emergency” has faded into the past, replaced with “boring” giveaways.

The next big question is, does this mean that there WILL be an election before the end of the year?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/ambassador-to-france-stephen-brady-broke-the-rules-over-his-partner-meeting-tony-abbott-in-paris/story-fni0cx12-1227339295377

THE Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has confirmed Australia’s dummy spitting Ambassador to France contravened a longstanding protocol by insisting his partner be present when he greeted Tony ­Abbott in Paris two weeks ago.

Well now we know Peter Hartcher is a Labor supporter. Hartcher even stated on the radio that it was Abbott himself who issued the directive. And people wonder why i never trust what a Labor supporter says whether they are journalists or voters.

yabot reflecting on “the right order of things”

ROFL

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/paris-envoy-stephen-brady-threatens-to-resign-after-his-partner-barred-from-greeting-tony-abbott/story-fni0cx12-1227337850196

DFAT rules stipulate that when a PM is travelling alone, he or she is greeted by the ­ambassador only……………..The Paris Embassy was made aware of this in advance of Mr Abbott’s arrival.

TomR

You are insane and continue to make me believe Labor supporters are fools.

As if the PM of Australia no matter who it is spends time on the phone making sure there are no gay couples waiting to meet him. Also Brady and Abbott are on friendly terms and Abbott appointed him to France.

And i will continue to believe the media is not to be trusted and are mainly cheerleaders for the ALP.

I also note that the libs have taken up practicing “waste” against yomms best advice

Federal budget 2015: Census saved, $250m investment in Bureau of Statistics

http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/federal-budget-2015-census-saved-250m-investment-in-bureau-of-statistics-20150506-ggvdrp.html

liberal grubmint just pandering public servants I guess hey yomm 😉

coalition 2.0 hey wally 😉

Was funny hearing the journos saying how having this “moderate” will be good because tones can now negotiate with someone willing

ROFL. They still don’t get it that it’s the grubmints fucken policies, not the oppositions intransigence that is the problem. Keep looking everywhere BUT the source.

I’m Peter …

And Wendy can just stay in the car!

Welcome to Neverland, I’m Peter

Yeah unemployment at 11% I will vote for Keating. Govt debt triples under Hawke- vote Labor

Rudd/Gillard trash everything they touch- vote Labor

Laughing at you is another

Yeah you laughed when local car sales went from 25% to 10% and our car industry was destroyed.

I am not against subsidies but it should be linked to performance. If sales went from 25% of the market to 35% you give them some money.

But you have no conscience. Destroying peoples lives gives you a sexual thrill.

Destroying peoples lives gives you a sexual thrill

Perhaps he’s trying to snactify me ❓

Now is definitely NOT the time to borrow and invest.

For property investors they could be in real trouble if interest rates go back up to normal levels like say 8%.

Now is the time to get out of debt. I just wish Australian voters support a govt that wants to run surplus budgets.

The problem is that people have a nose for what’s ‘fair’, to a certain extent, Kneel.

The way the current government attempted to get back to surplus smelled ideological and didn’t pass the ‘fair’ test to a lot of people.

The Coalition are beholden to the privileged and go about making their alterations accordingly. A majority of people don’t belong to the ‘privileged’ category and respond accordingly.
If there was widespread public support for the types of changes the Coalition wants to make, they’d have eased the changes through.

I think it’s highly amusing that AbbottCorp thought they had enough political capital to try their unapologetic fetishes out in last year’s budget. In actuality, they gained government chiefly because the population had had enough of Rudd/Gillard Labor. ..not because of a lust for AbbottCorp.

our dollar skyrocketed, making it very difficult for manufacturing

Why?? Might make exports less attractive but i think local manufacturers get cheap imports with a high dollar or have i got that the wrong way around?

No, despite revenue returning to pre GFC levels, Swan couldn’t get spending under control – and he didn’t even have the senate to blame.

What the figures demonstrate is that it is an expenditure problem, rather than a revenue one.

Gee i wonder who Laura Tingle votes for??

Why are Labor supporters so full of hate and dishonesty?

Koukoulas another nasty ALP supporter.

Will the treasurer blithely accept the forecast for the unemployment rate to remain above 6% for the next couple of years?

That is where it was for 13 years of Hawke/keating govt.

“Historically unemployment sits at a mean of around 6% …”

Yep……….any lower and you are just left with a pool of scum to employ. Cream floats to the top. Mud tends to sink

Coalition never delivered a budget that cut govt spending in real terms. ALP did 5: 3 by Keating & 2 by Swan ”

That statement by Koukoulas shows how dishonest the man is. Easily the biggest fraud to post i have ever seen.

There are lies damn lies and statistics. If Labor is so good at cutting spending how come they never run surplus budgets?

All I know is, this budget is not going to be boring, no matter how much yabot and co want it to be.

A late surge in iron ore prices has failed to lift the budget’s bottom line, with estimates suggesting it has probably deteriorated by about $1 billion in the past four weeks.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/federal-budget-2015-numbers-deteriorated-as-final-pieces-were-put-in-place-20150507-ggwipn.html?stb=twt

’cause they actually DO stuff to advance society … Democracy 101 …

Well then don’t brag about our AAA credit rating when it suits your purposes. Lefties like to post pictures of our still low govt debt. But it will not be low much longer. If we had hit the GFC with debt at 60% of GDP well we would have been cactus.

And there goes your society.

#is that more than `one` now, team-cheerer

It has been for a considerable, #teamignorance 😉

But it will not be low much longer.

Nope, #hopelesshockey is making sure of that 😉

`historical-fact` is not on their side

Says the ColouredCartonCounter ROFL

Now you’re getting fussy about “reheated”. Well, does the fact that they have stated they remain committed, as they always have since the debate started, to pricing Carbon. Re-heated.

+ Multi-nationals, Super … yea, your counting sucks 😉

Historically unemployment sits at a mean of around 6% …

What history are you talking about?? Under Menzies unemployment was at 2% and anybody who wanted a job could get one. i remember my Dad telling me that under menzies if you did not like your job you left and got another one.

Under 23 years of Coalition rule unemployment was at 2% and anybody who wanted a job could get one. Then Gough was elected in 1972 and unemployment doubled to 4%.

Really??

It is really bad that you have to back to 1972 to find a Labor govt that ran a surplus budget. But Gough exploded spending. luckily he matched explosive spending with explosive revenue. But also luckily he lost office after just 2.5 years. Any longer and deficits here we come.

And unemployment was at 2% under Menzies. That is the history under the Coalition.

I’ve only noticed that there is one contributor who oscillates between illiterate and semi-literate.

’ve only noticed that there is one contributor who oscillates between illiterate and semi-literate.

I think that’s pretty harsh yomm.

You don’t oscillate 😉

This guy is actually our treasurer…

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/35-inconceivable-facts-about-the-princess-bride-35-photos-361.gif?w=1198&h=590

No, he wasn’t, he was speaking of households.

Was he? Can you show me a link. Also i am not saying Hockey is stupid. I will say he is better than Swan. Swan is the dumbest, biggest liar and the most evil treasurer this country has ever had.

OK Thanks TB. I have just got so used to leftoids telling me lies that i do not trust what you people say.

Households? What are we supposed to invest in? Most households are struggling to survive.

“The Vibe” is always preferable to the facts.

Personal experience is important in establishing things like the unemployment rate.

I am 100% occupied, therefore I estimate the unemployment rate to be 0%

lol. This budget hasn’t even been released yet and it’s already a fizzer, from their own team ROFL

National party senators are joining the Labor party and the Greens in questioning the cuts to single income families’ benefits that the Abbott government says are essential to pay for the new childcare package that forms the centrepiece of its budget.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/10/nationals-senators-to-oppose-cutting-benefits-to-pay-for-childcare-package?CMP=share_btn_tw

Not sure if it’s worth finding out what’s actually on offer because so much shit is already tied to it that even their own “coalition” won’t be a part of it 😯

Does abbott lying to people over his grand ppl scheme and now ripping Labors ppl scheme away from working mothers constitute “double dipping”?

your post at 9.48AM is quite deceitful.

When has any previous Treasurer of any ilk told an employer to fuck off and take their jobs with them?

Is that what Hockey said?? Perhaps you could post a link as to what Hockey actually said.

For once i agree with you. The media should not be trusted. Mark hawthorne said in the article you posted that the Coalition was not going to give the car industry any money. WRONG. Funding was guaranteed until 2020.

Hawthorne must vote for the same party as Hartcher who said Abbott was barking orders just before his plane was about to land that no same-sex couple should be meeting him.

Hawthorne is a liar and hartcher is a liar. And so are you.

Hockey wanted clarification because Holden was threatening he govt.

WRONG. Funding was guaranteed until 2020.

This the same funding that the libs just re-instated? 😉

You are just full of deceit.

ROFL

Labor cut $15 billion out of Family Tax Benefit payments when they were in Government

Was that part of their “waste”, or was that just bullshit too?

Topping up seems sensible, but aren’t there people claiming BOTH the government scheme based on the minimum wage, and an employer funded scheme based on thier actual earnings?

I like budget bingo but I’ll be out of town. I usually finish up pissed, so reb should ask Hockey to do bis budget speech on a Friday night. Or maybe Morrison next time.

That lomberg shite is all that is wrong with this grubmint. They tried to implement a political position into a University, with someone who not only reflects their obvious political position, but is also an academic minnow.

The list of academic takedowns of his novels is quite extensive and compelling, which alone should be enough to prove the argument against his position there. But add to that the bumbled process by which this think tank was thrust onto the Uni, which is now shown to be entirely from within the grubmint, and I cannot recall anything similar before. There are channels and processes by which Universities choose these things, none of which were followed. Good luck to them finding another Uni to push their denialism.

And wilson is a prize class toss-pot himself. That tweet above AO I along with quite a few others replied to. His stock standard reply was “Clearly didn’t read article …”, which, if you read the replies, was quite obviously wrong. It seemed like his dismissive way of silencing any argument. Or just a vain attempt to get people to read it. Which was a disappointment because it was so vacuous and obviously partisan. But, I guess that’s Freedom in the newspeak.

As for the Netflix tax, I’m not overly upset. I understand they probably won’t make any actual dollars out of it, but, I’m also not a fan of having one delivery system taxed without another. And that’s from a Netflix #fanboy. What I am incredulous about is their focus on foxtels/ruperts competitors, but that’s where they draw the line. “Strengthening” powers for a department from which they have slashed so much that no amount of powers will enable them to do anything is, quite obviously, the same as doing nothing, especially without changing the rules, because, as we have seen, what the multi-nationals are doing, is not currently illegal. Much ado about nothing.

Now we see why there has been a spate of highly visible “tewwa” waids without any actual outcome/clarification/ information.

SPY agencies and counterterrorism units will be among the big winners from today’s Budget with a $450 million boost to track down and capture terrorists before they strike.

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/federal-budget-450m-boost-to-foil-terrorists-before-they-strike/story-fnii5s3x-1227350934824

One would hope with all this additional funding they might actually be able to find somehting more than a plastic sword, should it even be there.

But, how the tables have turned. Why, just yesterday (figuratively speaking), it was all about Labors profligacy, but now, they were such tight arses the nothing worked (even though, there has been a spate of highly visible “tewwa” waids without any actual outcome/clarification/ information. )

Mr Abbott said he believed the threat of terrorist attacks was growing, despite the resources being pumped into the national security architecture — which had been run down under the former Labor government’s efficiency dividend budget cuts.

Yea, our “Death cult” pm reckons the “Death cults are becoming more Death cultish, (and Labor didn’t “waste” enough to stop the death cults)

I wonder if it ever occurs to them that the more they malign people, the more death cultish they become. I wonder…………..

But, haven’t we always been at war with death cults? 😯

A shame they won’t be able to find anything in the budget for the home grown terrors – such as homelessnesss, hunger, domestic abuse……………

Costello was the most profligate Treasurer in history, he is the source of the structural deficit – see Good Fight http://t.co/PzvJRWM3Xz—
Wayne Swan (@SwannyQLD) May 10, 2015

Swan continued to plough money into school halls

It’s yawnyomm time again, going over the same old rebutted crap like a broken watch that starts at the number 13.

THE Australian economy grew at a much slower pace in the first quarter than at the end of last year as the withdrawal of Kevin Rudd’s economic stimulus to combat the GFC, surprising weakness in business investment and sluggish growth in export volumes took some of the steam out of activity.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/mining-sector-investment-to-speed-up-recovery-from-slowdown/story-e6frg926-1225874550046

And yet still far larger than projected by Treasury under Labor

You mean like this prediction under Labor

The four years of surpluses I announce tonight are a powerful endorsement of the strength of our economy, resilience of our people, and success of our policies.

Wayne Swan 8/5/2012.

I have to say it again TomR. You are so deceitful and a perfect fit for the ALP.

As usual. No apology for Swans prediction which he made in May 2012. Just look over there.

You believe Hartcher, you believe treasury. Do you have any discernment?

Do you have any discernment?

Well, I can discern you are a fucken idiot 😉

the fact is that there was a year of lower revenue, after that it returned to pre GFC levels

Thank Dog Swan 😉

Although, to be honest yomm, no, you didn’t post a link, you posted a garbled text that might have said anything

https://theguttertrash.com/2015/05/04/4794/#comment-103473

I have never seen any Labor supporter condemn Swans prediction he made in his budget speech as Treasurer of Australia in May 2012 that we would have surplus budgets for the next 4 years.

Well that kinda makes you a liar really doesn’t it, cos I said it was stoopid.

and you are just a deceiver

Oh, I thought I was more than that 😉

Ah we having our annual drinking game tonight

Here is my selection

Deficit
Surplus
Taxes
Spending
Revenue
Madam Speaker

“Ah we having our annual drinking game tonight”

Don’t know, but I’ll be around.

(I think you mean ‘are’.)

cos I said it was stoopid.

Did you make any funny captions about Swans statement. here it is again on budget night to all of Australia in may 2012

The four years of surpluses I announce tonight are a powerful endorsement of the strength of our economy, resilience of our people, and success of our policies.

Wayne Swan 8/5/2012.

It is already looking like Hockeys predictions are more careful than Swans

“Madam Speaker, this Government knows there are many Australians who want a job and can’t get one. As part of our economic plan, we are doing more to help.”