Diary of our stinking Govt.

[boris1gary]

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.

[debra9275]

Very true- I do not like or trust them at all . Still waiting for some grown -ups to take charge

[dellynt]

What a sad life that must be for you....

[debra9275]

It is a bit sad when I see what they're doing, ... But my life is OK thanks very much

[monman12]

"Very true- I do not like or trust them at all . Still waiting for some grown -ups to take charge "

Keep looking for a investigative C&P article then,  because you will rarely t find any  unbiased  "grown -ups" out there,  or here,  where  MYOP politics are concerned,  and you are a perfect example !

Try some thoughts of your own, and not repeated C&P codswallop.from others.

[debra9275]

what an awful picture 

[myoclon1cjerk]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/study-links-low-intelligence-with-right-wing-beli...

[debra9275]

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-27/alberici-focussing-on-my-aggression-ignores-the-budget/6499896

As long as we're talking about the style of interviews our economic leaders are subjected to, we're missing an opportunity to talk about the things that actually matter, writes Emma Alberici.

During his first budget reply on May 12, 2011, Tony Abbott said: "People can be confident that spending, debt and taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government."

When I reminded Senator Cormann of this claim, he insisted they were in a stronger position than if Labor had been in government, but was also quick to explain that changes in "economic conditions" had seen revenue plunge by $90 billion.

But when former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan delivered his last budget in May 2013 and announced that weaker commodity prices and a stubbornly high Australian dollar had conspired to wipe $170 billion off tax receipts since the Global Financial Crisis in 2009, Mathias Cormann said Labor was not fit for government. Julie Bishop went further, calling Wayne Swan "the worst treasurer that this country has ever seen".

Is that a double standard? When commodity prices and global demand fall, it's beyond the control of the Coalition, but when the same fate befalls the former treasurer, Senator Cormann labels him "reckless and incompetent".

Former treasurer Wayne Swan delivered a budget deficit of $19.4 billion in 2012-13. He projected a deficit marginally better in 2013-14 of $18 billion but just three months later in the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO), that figure had ballooned to $30 billion. The Finance Office and Treasury blamed volatility in commodity prices and a depressed global growth environment for the downward revision.

It's the same set of events that keeps punching holes in Joe Hockey's estimates. When in opposition, the Treasurer liked to caution that "if debt is the problem then more debt is not the answer", but that mantra has been mothballed right alongside the pledge to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Given that such truths are somewhat tricky to explain to a restive electorate still bruised by the 2014 budget, it's become easier to deny the truth, confuse the public message and hope the 24-hour news cycle drowns out any attempts to set the record straight.

If, by chance, a pesky journalist has the audacity to bring it up, call them "aggressive" and "biased".

Emma Alberici has some good points in this article.

[gleee58]

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@debra9275 wrote:

Emma Alberici has some good points in this article.

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Yes, she does. As does Dr Craig Emerson in his

http://nofibs.com.au/2015/05/26/a-budget2015-for-the-true-believers-drcraigemerson-comments/

Treasury figures confirm that the top 20 per cent of income earners receive 55 per cent of the total value of superannuation tax concessions. They would save most of their incomes anyway, but John Howard and Peter Costello figured they deserved a break from the drudgery of paying tax and gave them one by increasing the generosity of superannuation tax concessions for them, especially those over the age of sixty.

When the Gillard Government announced it would rein in the rorts, Abbott ran a “hands off our super” campaign and scrapped Labor’s modest policy upon winning office. Now Abbott’s at it again. Most economists agree the top-end concessions are unsustainable, the Labor Opposition has announced it will reduce them and Abbott has pledged to keep them wide open forever and a day.

His pretext is that closing down tax concessions constitutes a tax rise and he’s opposed to all tax rises. Yet he had no difficulty re-imposing the 15 per cent superannuation contributions tax that Labor had abolished for Australia’s 3.6 million lowest-paid workers. And he has no problem taking through bracket creep an increasing share of the declining real wages of workers. It’s only the tax breaks for the rich that are sacrosanct.

- See more at: http://nofibs.com.au/2015/05/26/a-budget2015-for-the-true-believers-drcraigemerson-comments/#sthash....

[icyfroth]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/study-links-low-intelligence-with-right-wing-beli...

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Pity the lefty leaders don't have the same level of intelligence as their followers supposedly have then, lol