Fix Budget Quit The Argy Bargy

[icyfroth]

NATIONAL Commission of Audit chairman Tony Shepherd has urged the Coalition and crossbench senators to reach a compromise on the budget, warning uncertainty will drain business confidence and distract the government from other important ­reforms.

Amid escalating frustration in the business community about the Senate derailing the ­Coalition’s agenda, the former Business Council of Australia president and respected company director has likened maintaining current government spending levels to a “short-term sugar hit”.

“Special interest groups say not us but the naysayers are not offering realistic alternatives to reducing expenditure and returning the budget to a sustainable surplus,” he writes.

If Australia continues down the fiscal path it’s on, there will be “no reserve” to deal with a future crisis.

And failing to put the budget on a sustainable path will “saddle our children and grandchildren with our profligacy”.

Entire Article Here

Totally agree. The media needs to stop pouncing on every utterance, every phrase or slip of the  tongue the Minister or Treasurer may make and let them get on with the job. 

This misplaced hostility against the current government because it won the election is deconstructive and bordering on the ridiculous.

[karliandjacko]

Why do you recommend we blindly follow the advice of this person who loves his money so much he thinks only he and his circle of friends should be the only ones to enjoy life?

Why should he granted so much influence over government policy when he is not an elected member of parliament?  

[boris1gary]

could have saved the UnAustralian the bother of printing so many words.....the not so many word version..

Blah blah blah, budget emergency thingy. the debt, the debt, save the kiddies from the debt, leaners, leaners, leaners, Big business is best, Big Business knows best, free the bigots.

Blah blah blah, privatise everything - let my mates buy it all, Public is bad, private is best, save the ballerinas. Yackety yack, yackety yack blah blah, Labor did it, the Unions are bad, Big Business is brilliant...blahblah. Kick the unemployed..leaners, leaners, leaners, tax payers, tax payers - emergency emergency, Gillard did it, blame Gillard, Gina is the Queen of Oz - all hail Gina blahblahblah. Take more money off the workers, the workers, the workers - Save the Billionaires. 

[cherry*135]

Fix Joe Hockey from making gaffes ( most recent about poor people and cars). Get him some better advisers maybe?. Three of his senior advisers have departed since the election. Perhaps he doesn't like to be given advice?

[cherry*135]

"Long-term structural savings including the $7 GP co-payment, "

From the link in the OP.

Is that correct, those $7's are funding Medical Research Fund?? Not back into Govt coffers, for improved health services.

[cherry*135]

Liberals attack Joe Hockey

Joe Hockey's colleagues and political allies have rounded on the Treasurer, questioning his judgment and the quality of advice he is receiving after a disastrous gaffe suggesting poor people "don't have cars or actually don't drive very far".

Mr Hockey has lost three key staff from his 17-person office in the nine months since the federal election. They include the second and third most senior people in the office, who have left since the budget and were charged with overseeing the budget process and providing crucial political and economic advice.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberals-attack-joe-hockey-20140814-3dpoj.html...