on 29-03-2014 08:44 AM
How do we afford this, what programs have to suffer or not get funding to pay for this madness?
Where does the money come from?
Completely predictable, but Labor still insisted on seeming good by promising a welfare scheme that ..., and the Liberals did not dare to completely oppose it:
COSTS on the pilots for the new national disability care program blew out by as much as 30 per cent in the first six months, hitting $46,000 a person, punching a hole in the May budget and threatening billion-dollar hits in the years ahead.
The blowout in the national disability insurance scheme is part of the “shocking” turnaround from the surplus Labor predicted for 2017-18 to a $32 billion deficit that Joe Hockey revealed to state treasurers yesterday…
For the following three months, from October to December last year, the average cost per person in the pilot programs had dropped to $40,466 but was still 15 per cent above the average budgeted cost…
The NDIS is due to be fully operational in 2019-20 at a current estimated annual cost of $22bn, including state government contributions.
on 29-03-2014 09:59 AM
well we don't have as many boat people these days, so maybe that will save us some money eventually and those savings could then be redirected to the NDIS
and no doubt someone will say something along the lines of send Gina the bill.....
but the bottom line is, the money tree is bare. It was bare when this scheme was sold to us with no way to fund it, and it is has only begun to rejuvenate, though I doubt it will be able to ever grow enough to fund that, the NBN, Gonski etc etc - you know all those really awesome proposals that sound good and that we do actually need (well, care for those with disabilities), but just don't add up on paper.
I daresay that there will be no alternative than to rise the medicare levy or perhaps introduce a co payment for medical services,selling public assets, you get the drift... find a solution to raise revenues (in a real hurry, by the looks)
but it will all be Mr Abbotts fault as a scrambles to cash cheques that the previous govt so ineptly wrote.
It's all fine and dandy to make a promise, but you need to have the money in the bank to pay for it.
but hey, as labor says "what's a bit of debt, eh"
on 29-03-2014 10:01 AM
@silverfaun wrote:LL the minions (sic) are asking where and how this scheme will be financed.
Just calling names and branding everyone liars is not the answer so if we could have the benefit of your sage advice on this it would be very much appreciated.
I've asked that all along.
not just about this, but the NBN, Gonski et al
on 29-03-2014 10:03 AM
@just_me_karen wrote:
What? But it's fully funded by the Medicare rise.
POST OF THE DAY
on 29-03-2014 10:05 AM
@azureline** wrote:What would you suggest happens to the people this scheme assists?
It would appear that these people do not deserve assistance.
on 29-03-2014 10:05 AM
@azureline** wrote:What would you suggest happens to the people this scheme assists?
they'll be right!
They'll all have the NBN and stuff like that!
How good is that, eh?
on 29-03-2014 10:07 AM
@lakeland27 wrote:tone promised
is he going to break another ? he's definitely not someone who's assurances can be taken seriously is he ? what an untrustworthy weasel .. but we knew that already didn;t we ..
ironic, eh?
I felt that way every time Labor announced some new scheme that they knew they'd never have to worry about funding and implementing.
on 29-03-2014 10:07 AM
@diamond-halo wrote:
@silverfaun wrote:LL the minions (sic) are asking where and how this scheme will be financed.
Just calling names and branding everyone liars is not the answer so if we could have the benefit of your sage advice on this it would be very much appreciated.
I've asked that all along.
not just about this, but the NBN, Gonski et al
The NBN is not funded by the budget, for about the hundred and sixty fourth time.
on 29-03-2014 10:10 AM
Maybe, we can reduce the pension. Increase retirement age, heck, lets not let people ever retire! There's one problem solved, if they don't retire, we don't have to provide them with a pension, eh?
WOOT!
now there's a corker of an idea
on 29-03-2014 10:11 AM
@freakiness wrote:
@azureline** wrote:What would you suggest happens to the people this scheme assists?
It would appear that these people do not deserve assistance.
nup
He is NOT saying that at ALL
He is asking HOW we are going to pay for it?
on 29-03-2014 10:12 AM
@freakiness wrote:
@diamond-halo wrote:
@silverfaun wrote:LL the minions (sic) are asking where and how this scheme will be financed.
Just calling names and branding everyone liars is not the answer so if we could have the benefit of your sage advice on this it would be very much appreciated.
I've asked that all along.
not just about this, but the NBN, Gonski et al
The NBN is not funded by the budget, for about the hundred and sixty fourth time.
what's it funded by?