Mike Baird. I dunno about you...

[i-need-a-martini]

I have said on these borads before that I thought he was genuine and generally I didn't mind him.

But in the lead up to the NSW campaign, he has stooped to standard Liberal tactics of lying through his teeth.

Take his latest pledge - he is going to create 150,000 new jobs. 150,000!! Out of thin air apparently because nothing he has said actually backs this up. In fact, everything he is planning to do will actually throw more people on the unemployment scrap heap.

So how can any man with morals make a statement that is clearly untrue - that just by electing him, he will be able to create enough jobs to put a 20% dent in the current unemployment figures?

[gleee58]

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@idlewhile wrote:

Labor and the unions exposed for a lying and scare mongering campaign and then they descended into hate of the Chinese and Xenophobia.

All their  disgusting and grubby lies  has been exposed and they have completely shot themselves in the foot, done themselves enormous damage and they will be beaten on Saturday.

They were expecting to reap a lot of seats, expecting to rip over 10 seats from the Baird govt. and now they are going to pay for lying and scare mongering, even their own have turned agaist them, exposed them publicly for the liars they are.

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Why the hysteria?

What have they done?

That doesn't contain any information.

[polksaladallie]

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@idlewhile wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

What is  Baird's (Jr) policy/view on same gender marriage?

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It's a personal thing and in the beginning it was anathema for gay couples to even contemplate marriage, they abhorred it and derided it and celebrated their freedom from it.

Now it's a left wing political football and they are using it to for political purposes.

There's nothing stopping a gay couple from a civil union.

My best friend is gay and he married his partner in a civil union and is very happy with that.

PM Abbott should allow this gay marriage law vote and see how many Labor members will join in. and get rid of it off the political landscape forever.

Mike Baird will win this election and he deserves to. Labor will suffer for their lies and scaremongering, they have taken the voters of NSW for fools for too long.

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My question had nothing to do with left or right, Labor or Liberal.

I was genuinely curious as to what his thoughts were and what conversations might have occurred in his family on the subject.

[cherry*135]

[idlewhile]

Everything points to a Mike Baird win today.

A timely reminder  not lie and scare monger  the voters, they are a wake up to it.

Reform is needed but Labor are still tied to the old ways, union dominated and against change, they have learnt nothing from the Rudd/Gillard failures and the federal labor party are the same, mired in dogma and hogtied by the unions, captured by the Greens.

They are unfit to govern and the voters will tell them that today.

[Anonymous]

So the Baird government have essentially said they will do nothing unless we agree to the sell off

and labour have become stuck and sinking in the mud they have created.

May just as well toss a coin.

[Anonymous]

Labour must have found the Spin recipe on the back of a corn flakes box.

If Libs sell ( lease ) the poles and wires electricity prices will go up.

If labour wins and doesn't sell ( lease ) electricity prices will STILL go

up. Apart from the Carbon Tax refund they have ALWAYS gone up....lol

Such a shame that the Libs are going to get away with government sanctioned blackmail

with the unneccessary sale ( lease ) of one of our remaining profitable utilities.

This garage sale has been going on for many years ( eg Telstra Float ) and we are

no further in front.

Hang on !! If these poles and wires are such a gravy train for the owner then why

didn't they float ( like Telstra ) ???

[***super_nova***]

Since our power infra structure has been privatized in Victoria it has been allowed seriously run down.  Number of bushfires have been caused by faulty powerlines since; including one on Black Saturday that has been responsible for loss of many lives.  It is not surprising that overseas company, which is only interested i maximising its profits will try to keep maintenance to minimum.  Then when things go bad they will want more money to compensates for the cost.  Such things as our power and water should be always kept in our hands, not giving to somebody else to make profit on. 

[Anonymous]

Yes ***super_nova***

It still hasn't been pointed out just who will be responsible for ongoing maintenance.

Isn't the 'landlord' responsible ?

As has been pointed out by some economists, the money ( for promised infrastructure conditional on 'sale' )

could have been borrowed and easily serviced from current poles and wires income.

Under the covers there will be some pockets lined by the 'sale'.

[***super_nova***]

Friend of mine used to have a contract to replace the unsafe power poles.  He often said that the poles should have been replaced sooner.  He was doing that for about 30 years, and most of the time employing a  dozen of people.  After privatisation within short time he was down to 2 men, because the new owners' safety criteria were even less strict than the government used to be.  And so, just in that particular small country town 10 people became unemployed; I wonder how many jobs disappeared statewide. 

[cherry*135]

The prediction for today has always been Mike Baird will win.......