AWARD for : Most incompetent Treasurer never to have got a budget through .......

[fourandsixpants]

.....wait for it.....Goes to....!!!!!!

maybe when Joe ends up losing his job he could apply to be the face.....(or another body part) for JCraig

[fourandsixpants]

.....MT perhaps?

ref the compensation with tie issue:

.....or the photographer could only make Joe look 'good' by getting him to lean ever so FAR forward.....to hide the gut.....in fact SO far forward .......because it is a substantial gut......that the tie is almost to his ankles LOL

.....or here's a theory: whilst taking the seated pose Joe's substantial girth *popped the fly zipper, so the request was to lean over for the shot to hide the damage.....Hhhhmmmmmn

So many theories and conspiracies to consider......I had best go and puff on a cigar and ponder on like mysteries

[fourandsixpants]

Julie apparently spat the dummy at the dummy yesterday......she was scheduled to go on a Foriegn Affairs trip by herself as usual and TA has organised a chaperone for her.....

I don't think she can use an abacus....though she can probably count to eleventy.

MT is up to his red eye-balls in tangled copper wire but I think TA would really be threatened if MT was appointed Treasurer!!

Who knows.....but one thing is fer sure , both TA and Hockit are D-OOOOOOooooooOOOOOOMMMMMMMMmmm-t

[polksaladallie]

The first sign of serious tensions between Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop have emerged, with reports the deputy Liberal leader "went bananas" at the Prime Minister after Fairfax Media reported she would be chaperoned on a key overseas mission.

Yes, I had this in the other thread.  Yesterday in question time the Labor party had some bananas or similar as props, obviously referring to the spat.  Nearly gave the speaker apoplexy.

[boris1gary]

Kevin Rudd was right

[nero_bolt]

[polksaladallie]

You go first.

[fourandsixpants]

Oh I'll go then! LOL

A change of face will not help the floundering LNP at all.

They have an unfair and unsaleable budget....& their policies are where?!

........................absolutely intangible..........

[boris1gary]

same old song - it's all Labors fault...lol...fewer & fewer people are falling for it, mostly its just boring.

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@monman12 wrote:

AWARD for : Most incompetent Treasurer never to have got a promised surplus budget.

In 2010 the Circus treasurer stated: " that a surplus would be delivered "come hell or high water"

Hmmmmmmmm I think the term is P007, because all five of Mr Swan's budgets returned deficits, low tides?

In his 2008 Budget speech Wayne Swan said “We are budgeting for a surplus of $21.7 billion in 2008-09

The result was a deficit of    $27billion

In 2009 Wayne Swan claimed that a major aim of the 2009 budget was to bring it back to surplus.

The result was a deficit of   $55billion.

It wasn’t third time lucky for Australia or Wayne Swan in 2010: “Our strategy will see us return to
surplus in three years.

The result was a deficit of    $48billion.

In 2011 Wayne Swan said the budget would be back in the black by 2012-13.

The result was a deficit of    $44billion.

2012: "“This Budget delivers a surplus this coming year, on time, as promised, and surpluses
each year after that, strengthening over time.” 

The result was a deficit of    $19billion.

Swan was not  floundering alone in the economic surf (waiting for high water?), one of the Circus  ringmasters, Poor Me,  said in a speech (April 2011) :   "My commitment to a surplus in 2012/13 was a promise made and it will be honoured." That was in the same promise category as the "no carbon tax" ?

Still remote from economic reality Poor Me announced (November 2012):

"We stand by the predictions, the entries in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. We stand by the figures and we're on track to deliver a budget surplus."

In keeping with the academic appreciation  often displayed herein, and wishing to "connect" :

Actually funny,  from a respected cartoonist,  and definitely not big enough, so:

         HALLELUJAH I CAN SEE A BUDGET SURPLUS

nɥºɾ

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By posting all that you are ruining Mr Swan's chances of writing his 'must read' memoirs. I can still remember the day that Mr Swan saved 70 children from a burning orphanage; was presented with the OECD Thomas J Alexander Fellows award for discarding his abacus and adopting a hand-held calculator; and giving a Canberra cop a clip behind the ear for having the hide to write him a speeding ticket. All that was done before morning tea. Can't wait for his book.