As it's more than 100 days now, it has been suggested that a new thread was needed. The current govt has been breaking promises and telling lies at a rate so fast it's hard to keep up.
This below is worrying, "independent" pffft, as if your own doctor is somehow what? biased, it's ridiculous. So far there is talk of only including people under a certain age 30-35, for now. Remember that if your injured in a car, injured at work or get ill, you too might need to go on the DSP. They have done a similar think in the UK with devastating consequences.
and this is the 2nd time recently where the Govt has referred to work as welfare???? So when you go to work tomorrow (or tuesday), just remember that's welfare.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-20/disability-pensioners-may-be-reassessed-kevin-andrews/5400598
Independent doctors could be called in to reassess disability pensioners, Federal Government says
The Federal Government is considering using independent doctors to examine disability pensioners and assess whether they should continue to receive payments.
Currently family doctors provide reports supporting claims for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
But Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews is considering a measure that would see independent doctors reassess eligibility.
"We are concerned that where people can work, the best form of welfare is work," Mr Andrews said at a press conference.
on twitter there's a hashtag all labor's fault, I'ts hilarious the things people are coming up with 
here's another problem that's ALL LABOR'S FAULT
well the constant blaming is not helping them at all, probably better for them if they shut up for a month, team australia gets smaller everyday
Deficit size fetishism: Why Joe Hockey needs to learn economics
Treasurer Joe Hockey – and many other treasurers in developed countries – have a poor grasp of economics, wrongly conflating national fiscal policy with running a household budget. UNSW Professor Geoff Harcourt explains (via The Conversation).
THOUGH MONEY AND FINANCIAL FACTORS are integrated in complex ways in the workings of the economy, ultimately it is real resources – work forces (sizes and skills), capital goods and natural resources – that set the upper limit at any moment of time on the size of the community’s standard of living.
And yet that hasn’t stopped successive Australian Federal treasurers – along with their counterparts in other advanced capitalist economies – increasingly using terms which reflect misunderstandings of the role of fiscal policy in economic policy.
When used by treasurers, phrases such as “we cannot afford it financially” or “where is the money to come from?” or “you are using taxpayers’ money”, confuse affairs of the state with what should be left to the workings of individual households.
Obsessed with the relationship of government expenditure and taxation, many treasurers suffer from deficit size fetishism, and fall victim to the “balancing the budget over the cycle” fallacy. Many also get caught up with hypothecation — matching specific government expenditures with particular tax sources.
Surround yourself with rich buds.
Rich folks dress fancier, own better stuff, and sometimes wield the influence they have as the owner of a massive media empire to help you get elected. Sure you're basically the Peter Pettigrew of the gang, always trying to suck up and impress everyone just so you don't have to be alone with the atrocities you're responsible for, but it's better than being poor.
If you're going to involve yourself in an international dispute, make sure you join the side with the hugest missiles.
Becoming best buds with Israel was a totally smart choice. Tony & Friends get to hang out in the company of the US and they get to help blow innocent people back into the bleeping stone age. Win-win?
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Lie about heaps of stuff.
Seriously, it's not like anyone will notice. If you're gonna lie, though, make sure you appeal to people's most basic prejudices.
Really play up the fear that their existence is frighteningly precarious and then give them wildly unrealistic expectations about how you're going to fix that. Later, tell them it's all better. Good lies include, but aren't limited to: people from overseas are coming to steal your job; your country is going through a massive budget crisis and you deserve to be rich; and "Noooo, we totally didn't invite all these US Marines to hang out in order to scare the bleep out of China."
"Does Nero have visual problems? They are keen posting supersized images. I am not, it takes longer for me to scroll quickly past them."
Just close your eyes if it is a comic image that offends your pink views.
What is happening here?, now we are seeing more and more childish cartoons/images to support a cycloptic political outlook , and most are actually others efforts: " nothing original to see here move along" !
However if it makes one feel "secure" why not, catharsis does help in whatever form.
Perhaps our non-researchers could start by putting moustaches or red noses on images of those that produce attacks of PPTSD within them, then advance to writing comments that upon checking are total nonsense, what? they already have, whoops I forgot for a moment.
So children as this odorous government continues, the real (important) picture (not cartoons) that sums it up, and currently is smelling like roses:
TLS (thank you ALP and Conroy)
Did I mention the dividends? They could be summed up thus : A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (regardless of which herd are in power)
OK children comic book time!
