on 04-12-2014 11:40 AM
Given the Pin Up Boy -- Bull Shorten is devoid of any constructive policy to GROW the Australian economy , he is seen here for what he is ---an ALP Leadership Fraud.
Like so many ALP leaders he avoids like the plague to make constructive policy suggestions to the people of Australia -- he is incapable along with his party of being constructive in any way.
Andrew Bolt –, Thursday, December, 04, 2014, (8:10am)
Time to get cracking. We need to scramble if we don’t want to get a whole lot poorer fast:
Outgoing Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson has issued an urgent call for corporate and personal tax cuts, warning that our tax system is stuck in the 1950s and that Australians’ standard of living will collapse without reform…
“ ... (U)nless we tackle structural reform, including fixing our fundamental budget problem, we will not be able to guarantee rising income and living standards for Australians."…
High corporate and personal tax rates are the key priorities for reform, he said, as inflation pulls the average wage earner into Australia’s second-highest tax bracket over the next decade and corporate tax rates fall globally.
Just to say that our tax rates are too high is to get that sinking feeling. How on earth can that argument be successfully run when the culture and the political opportunists are all against it?
Dr Parkinson acknowledged the difficulty in winning the “hearts and minds” of Australians in arguing for corporate tax cuts, but said that work done by Treasury showed “about half of all the benefit of a corporate income tax cut flow back relatively seamlessly towards employees ...
Good luck with that argument. It simply cannot be won unless Labor acknowledges the truth of it and fights to save Australia, rather than to destroy Tony Abbott.
Attack the Abbott Government all you like - and I have - but Labor is the true barrier to saving this country from the crash to come. If you doubt it, then listen again to Bill Shorten last night refusing to admit the plain truth that we are spending more than we now afford on health and welfare.
It would very much help the Abbott Government’s case to drop its paid parental leave scheme. That would not just avoid yet another humiliating Senate battle but would demonstrate that, yes indeed, the money truly is gone. It would then deny Labor the cheap comeback it’s exploited for a year, the one Shorten trotted out yet again last night:
You’ve said what would you do? ... Well here’s some options where Tony Abbott doesn’t even have to go to an election on. He could do these tomorrow. Dump his paid parental leave scheme, which is billions of dollars ...
Why does the Government keep offering Labor this free kick?
Just get the topic every time to Labor’s dangerous irresponsibility - both in office and now. A little scrutiny is enough to have Shorten struggling for more than three words:
BILL SHORTEN: Yes, the concepts you’re asking are about sufficiently important. I just can’t give you a three-word slogan… you go for growth ... we’ve got to go for growth.... you go for growth… The only way this country will get ahead is by inclusive growth.... you can have inclusive growth ...
Which party - other than the Greens - doesn’t want growth? LABOR The aim is shared. It’s wishing the means that’s the problem
on 04-12-2014 02:34 PM
@i-need-a-martini wrote:......
It's also worth pointing out that it's a bit rich (actually it's laughable) that the right are now demanding policy statements from the Opposition Govt, when the current government couldn't even supply any on the eve of an election. In fact, even today their policies are rubbery to non existent.
That FACT hasn't gone unnoticed in mainstream media articles either.
04-12-2014 02:40 PM - edited 04-12-2014 02:44 PM
@lind9650 wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:
I don't think hockey has any idea how to fix the mess he's made eitherJoe Hockeys wife, Melissa Babbage is a financial guru for a mega Bank.
All he knows about finance is what his wife tells him.
Erica
In the interests of accuracy ,she left Deutsche Bank in 2011.
04-12-2014 02:42 PM - edited 04-12-2014 02:46 PM
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@alexander*beetle wrote:Now I see it's Andrew Bolt. Says it all. What a lowlife he is.
Not so long ago, as I recall, a poster here got reported and hounded off the boards for posting long tedious C&PS. Obviously the people who complained so vociferously about her must have had a change of heart. Or maybe it's not what you post but who you are that determines your freedom to bore the poants off everyone.
That is not true (far from it actually).
To address the thread title:
If we're running out of money the finger is pointed firmly in the direction of the Abbott Govt, the Treasurer & PM in particular.
on 04-12-2014 02:52 PM
@alexander*beetle wrote:
@nero_wulf wrote:I DON'T KNOW WHAT BILL SAID BUT I KNOW HE AGREES WIF IT
That is below the belt and a last resort for those who can't argue their position to then attack someone's disability. While his speech impediment is only a mild disability, it is obviously something he has no control over. Attack his policies by all means.
Oh get over it. How many times has Mr Abbot been meanly lambasted here for his quirks and peculiarities of speech?
If it's good for one it's good for the other.
on 04-12-2014 03:04 PM
@debra9275 wrote:
Oh no, not bolt again, lol obviously he has at least one avid reader in the OP
I watched a bit of his show last Sunday. He came across as nervous, insecure and just plain weird
Andrew Bolt?
Nervous? Insecure?
The coveted five laughy-face award.
Weird? No more than any Kerry O'Brien or Tony Jones.
04-12-2014 03:10 PM - edited 04-12-2014 03:12 PM
seriously. are you kidding??
The coveted five laughy-face award.
Tony Jones at least invites people of opppsing views on his show, which makes it interesting.
Kerry Obrien?? does he have a show?? i haven't seen it
when I watched bolt, he only had on people with the same views as him, can't remember who they were, some obscrure groups that I've never heard of. Is that the usual for bolts shows, only invite like minded people to appear.
Sharri markson backed out of Q & A a couple of weeks ago as she was afraid to be up against some man can't remember who he was
on 04-12-2014 03:22 PM
@debra9275 wrote:seriously. are you kidding??
The coveted five laughy-face award.
Tony Jones at least invites people of opppsing views on his show, which makes it interesting.
Kerry Obrien?? does he have a show?? i haven't seen it
when I watched bolt, he only had on people with the same views as him, can't remember who they were, some obscrure groups that I've never heard of. Is that the usual for bolts shows, only invite like minded people to appear.
Sharri markson backed out of Q & A a couple of weeks ago as she was afraid to be up against some man can't remember who he was
You should watch Bolt more often, then you'd know what was usual for his show.
on 04-12-2014 03:22 PM
Kerry Obrien?? does he have a show?? i haven't seen it
errr 4 corners
on 04-12-2014 03:23 PM
its never going to be good again until government wakes up to the fact that we need real jobs for all Australians and letting manufacturers shut up shop and going over seas is never going to work for our economy
secondly selling the country to the Chinese and then letting them bring in their own workers and then exporting the produce and never paying tax is not the awnser
thirdly the so called level playing field has never been level as all other countries understand that they need to keep the people working and protect jobs and if this cant be done with tariff protection they support their industries with subsidies
on 04-12-2014 03:24 PM
no thanks I assume if he ever does have anyone on with different views to him theat they get the old fox news style shout over,
better things to watch than that
thank you