topic Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......? in Community Spirit

Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

fourandsixpants — Fri, 30 May 2014 06:10:06 GMT

.....or not?

Do you want to see a DD ?

Abbott said he was confident the government would get the budget through the Senate in the end, because the alternative would be a double dissolution election.....Labor, the Greens and the Palmer United party had vowed to block changes such as the GP co-payment and pension cuts.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/24/tony-abbott-talks-double-dissolution-in-fight-over-budget

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

fourandsixpants — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:16:39 GMT

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

debra9275 — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:21:22 GMT

It would cost the economy, but I wouldn't disagree on having a DD

The way I look at it is, it may save us money in the long run lol

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

debra9275 — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:40:14 GMT

Christine Milne said he made her promises behind closed doors then reneged on them in public. He'll have trouble making deals with anyone

it's a trust problem

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

fourandsixpants — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:38:18 GMT

trust of whom exactly?

About what exactly Debs....pls explaaaain ?! LOL

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

debra9275 — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:39:46 GMT

not sure what happened there paints I had a weird disappearance problem IYKWIM

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

fourandsixpants — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:48:24 GMT

LOL! hence my posting 'BOO!'

....IYKWIM

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debra9275 — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:52:13 GMT

Very spooky lol

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

lind9650 — Sat, 31 May 2014 01:38:41 GMT

I don't think a Double Dissolution would achive anything. I have not heard one politician come up with a plan to better our situation regarding all aspects of life.

Health, Education, Welfare and most of all Jobs. Everyone is a critic (including me) but nobody has a solid proposal to improve anything.

Erica 😞

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

debra9275 — Sat, 31 May 2014 02:16:48 GMT

Clive Palmer madea speech he made yesterday & he had some good ideas I thought. There were a couple of things he said that I didn't agree with though

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

freakiness — Sat, 31 May 2014 03:27:05 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
I don't think a Double Dissolution would achive anything. I have not heard one politician come up with a plan to better our situation regarding all aspects of life.
Health, Education, Welfare and most of all Jobs. Everyone is a critic (including me) but nobody has a solid proposal to improve anything.

Erica 😞

There were changes for the better in progress before this mob came in and wielded their sledge hammer through every single reform.

To some extent they have only themselves to blame but on the other they had 3 or more years under constant attack from the IPA and newscorp, neither of which are elected by anyone.

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

twyngwyn — Sat, 31 May 2014 05:23:19 GMT

interesting.....

http://www.news-mail.com.au/news/tony-abbott-will-be-dumped-own-party-within-week/2274684/

Re: Do You think a Double Dissolution.......?

boris1gary — Sat, 31 May 2014 06:04:20 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
I don't think a Double Dissolution would achive anything. I have not heard one politician come up with a plan to better our situation regarding all aspects of life.
Health, Education, Welfare and most of all Jobs. Everyone is a critic (including me) but nobody has a solid proposal to improve anything.

Erica 😞

There have been plenty of alternatives put up Erica, the "budget crisis" is a furphy to begin with...there are plenty of ways to increase revenue which this budget makes little attempt at doing...

Time to end Tony Abbott’s deceitful debt scare campaign

http://theaimn.com/2014/05/26/time-to-end-tony-abbotts-deceitful-debt-scare-campaign/

Myths, lies and deceit

http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2014/1640/06-fb-myth-lied-and-deceit.html

Don't tax students, tax the entitled

When it comes to forgoing potential government revenue by offering some people tax concessions Australia leads the OECD. In fact, we blow most other countries out of the water. Estimates suggest we give back about 8 per cent of our GDP, well over $120 billion, and that the vast bulk of OECD countries concede less than half of this portion.

And who does it benefit? Me – and others like me – who are investing extra income we made courtesy of our free university education.

It's the likes of Pyne and myself, who, come July 1, if we can find a handy $50,000 down the back of the couch can plough it into our superannuation at a tax rate of 15 per cent when as income it would have been taxed at double or triple that amount.

It's Hockey and me who are most likely to own an investment property or two that we can negatively gear to our advantage.

Surely winding back these arrangements is a fairer way to "lift not lean" than increasing the debts of students who already pay an appropriate amount for their degrees which will benefit them, but also all of us. Our scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, our Treasurer and Education Minister, and all but two prime ministers since 1950, have all had the benefit of an Australian university education.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dont-tax-students-tax-the-entitled-20140529-zrrvd.html#ixzz33GoxFuaj