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nero_bolt · ‎04-12-2014

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

idlewhile · ‎05-12-2014

@paintsew007 wrote:
Have you read or made any commendable contributions to any of the posts in this thread or do you just come here with a measuring tape and to look at the pwetty colours ?......red not your fav colour?

maybe you will find this more attractive:

.........TA's been having a bad hair week

Commendable comment, I must have missed that.

icyfroth · ‎05-12-2014

@lillywhile wrote:
@paintsew007 wrote:
Have you read or made any commendable contributions to any of the posts in this thread or do you just come here with a measuring tape and to look at the pwetty colours ?......red not your fav colour?

maybe you will find this more attractive:

.........TA's been having a bad hair week
Commendable comment, I must have missed that.

Actually, I think that look suits him lol.

fourandsixpants · ‎05-12-2014

paintsew007 wrote:

Have you read or made any commendable contributions to any of the posts in this thread or do you just come here with a measuring tape and to look at the pwetty colours ?......red not your fav colour?

maybe you will find this more attractive:

.........TA's been having a bad hair week

Commendable comment, I must have missed that.

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Why, yes it is ...................this is friendly

nero_bolt · ‎05-12-2014

Shorten still throwing our future away

WHATEVER Opposition leader Bill Shorten may say about Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Labor policies were responsible for the nation’s perilous finances and he has no solutions.

He leads a party which could meaningfully negotiate with the government and negate the debilitating effect on public confidence of the truly stupid minority party senators but he prefers to put at risk the nation’s reputation for good governance for petty political gain.

The disorderly former PUP Senator Jacqui Lambie and her cross-bench colleagues owe their disruptive balance of power to Labor’s determination to be wreckers, not builders. Without Labor, they would be toast.

Australians have been twice warned in the space of a fortnight that they face a deteriorating standard of living.

Outgoing Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson warned last week that unless tough decisions are taken over the next few years, the future is bleak.

“It’s not feasible to materially reduce spending growth without looking at the largest spending categories … this is health, welfare and higher education,” he said.

They are the three policy areas which the Senate has refused to embrace change, areas which Labor has in the past sought to reform but is now rejecting necessary reorganisation.

Parkinson warned: “We know what failure looks like. Declining growth in living standards, perhaps even falling living standards, lower wages, few opportunities for our young and, in all likelihood, declining public services and rising personal tax burdens.

“The implications for fiscal sustainability of failing to take action seem to have been lost in the public debate, as if this does not matter to Australia’s future prosperity,” he said.

Shorten and his team are just sitting on their hands. Yet he was a minister in the successive Labor governments which constantly failed to produce promised surpluses and presented nothing but deficits, culminating in the $48.5 billion deficit for 2013/14, $30 billion larger than Labor forecast last year.

Parkinson’s analysis made three specific points.

In addition to emphasising the need to examine the three big spending policy areas, he said it was better to cut spending that increase taxation, and he stressed the need to act now or face another ten years of budget deficits.

“This should be understood for what it is,” Parkinson said. “A serious warning to us as a nation that unless we tackle structural reform, including fixing our fundamental budget problem, we will not be able to guarantee rising income and living standards for Australians.”

In the next fortnight, Treasurer Joe Hockey will deliver the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) setting the direction until next May’s federal budget.

This opportunity to regain control of the debate must not be squandered.

With the ABC and Fairfax promoting the minority parties and generally supporting Labor’s negative approach to any of the Coalition’s budgetary measures, about 90 per cent of the media are working with the Opposition to consign Australians to reduced standards of living in the next decade.

Labor has a role to play in Opposition but under Shorten it has vacated its authoritative position and preferred to let the nation think crazy cross-benchers are running the country.

It is actively promoting the chaos.

With grotesque hypocrisy, it is actually blocking $5.7bn of cuts it advocated when it was in office, including research and development tax changes and tax cuts linked to the now extinct job-destroying carbon tax.

Labor has a record of cutting university research funds and promoted an overall reduction in spending on the tertiary sector.

Now it is looking the other way, or actively promoting, demented radicals from the noisy but essentially irrelevant Social Alliance organisation and other disruptive fanatics from the fringes of the spectrum.

The GP co-payment should not be a conversation killer, the Hawke Labor government backed the initiative over 20 years ago, New Zealanders have lived with a co-payment without any fuss, and such a market mechanism is universally regarded as a common-sense solution to reducing unnecessary demands on an already over-stretched public health system.

But Labor, under Shorten, has sacrificed rational and coherent long-term policy objectives which would benefit the nation for short-term headline catching negativity.

In his end-of-year remarks to Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott remarked that the fundamental tasks were national security and economic security.

He said that at least on one of those tasks, the government received a great deal of cooperation from the Opposition.

With his usual charitableness, he neglected to mention that Labor had slashed defence spending when in office and rundown our national security capability and he didn’t smash Labor for its ongoing determination to smash the economic security of current and future generations of Australians.

Parliament having risen for the year, Labor must ask itself whether it wants to continue building the reputations of minority party non-entities and cement itself as the party of negativity and destruction or whether it wants to participate in our democracy in a constructive manner.

While Shorten remains wedded to adolescent rabble-rousing rather than making contributions to constructive and productive policy, he will cement his identity as a road block on the path to a positive prosperous future.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/shorten-still-throwing-our-future-away/story-fni0cwl5-...

fourandsixpants · ‎05-12-2014

What are you really trying to say?

What's the main point?

If you are trying to make Bill look bad .....you cannot distract from the bebarnacle going on across the passageways LOL

alexander*beetle · ‎05-12-2014

So much that one could say about that article but this is the classic.

"Labor must ask itself whether it wants to continue building the reputations of minority party non-entities and cement itself as the party of negativity and destruction or whether it wants to participate in our democracy in a constructive manner."

The irony.

What are your thoughts nero? Do you have a cohesive argument to support this article?

myoclon1cjerk · ‎06-12-2014

Poor old Rupe and his B boys.Trying hard to peg back Labors lead in the polls and all it amounts to is psing into the wind. Bwahaha.

iapetus_rocks · ‎06-12-2014

They've done it to themselves (the LNP)

A mean, tricky and out of touch government.(2nd edition)

I just hope that the People (the electorate) won't forget all the bad things this govt has done when it begins to scatter the sweeteners, the bribes, the oh so reasonable concessions which will start to manifest themselves in the six months or so before the next federal election.