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257 000 unemployed youth (over 18) and 16500 public servants won't be feeling calm, nor likely to vote for the LNP next election.

Abbott gave the number of public servants to lose their jobs before the election as 12,000. Now he just tacks on another 4500 to that total.
Anyone would have to be living in cloud cuckoo land if they can't see the flow effect that will have... That many people without work, they wont be spending a cent apart from basic living necessities. Retailers, restaurants, and other services will feel that badly and in turn will have to cut staff and/or close down.

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this is same thing/pattern that LNP work to every time they get 'in' to mess with us. Nothing new here but totally unacceptable all the same.

What Spot said too about the part-timers and casual workers need to be counted in the total resulting unemployed figures too.....this cagey lot holding the sceptre at the moment ......my goodness me words escape me that are unrepeatable on here.

Paying this lot for what they are doing feels like being forced to fund national and international crime atm.

While those families in the bottom quintile (or 20 per cent) of income earners see an average 5 per cent reduction in disposable incomes, those in the top quintile barely register a decline, down just 0.3 per cent.

and my favourite headline of the day....

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-name-is-mud-20140515-zrd9w.html

Tony Abbott's name is mud

The Prime Minister is a liar. There is no point mincing words. We have never seen anything like it.

With this budget he has shown himself to be cynically dishonest on a scale unprecedented in modern politics. Although Abbott is not the first political leader to break an election promise and will not be the last, no prime minister in memory, Liberal or Labor, has come even close to his contemptuous deception of the electorate he sucker-punched on Tuesday.

The budget isn't all bad news.  People forget that the government has committed $12.4 billion dollars to purchase 58 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.  People also tend to ignore the $50 billion dollar medical innovation fund, a policy that was first mooted in the Hollowmen episode Rear Vision.

yes true the defence budget is up and we might find a cure for cancer, for those that can afford it. Still the downside for defence is we are throwing 40 of our top military scientists and engineers on the scrapheap, but like the cartoon says - there is always wikipedia.

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@boris1gary wrote:

While those families in the bottom quintile (or 20 per cent) of income earners see an average 5 per cent reduction in disposable incomes, those in the top quintile barely register a decline, down just 0.3 per cent.

 

and my favourite headline of the day....

 

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-name-is-mud-20140515-zrd9w.html

 

Tony Abbott's name is mud

 

The Prime Minister is a liar. There is no point mincing words. We have never seen anything like it.

 

With this budget he has shown himself to be cynically dishonest on a scale unprecedented in modern politics. Although Abbott is not the first political leader to break an election promise and will not be the last, no prime minister in memory, Liberal or Labor, has come even close to his contemptuous deception of the electorate he sucker-punched on Tuesday.

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Calling our PM a liar on here is unacceptable and against the cs values. Name calling of any kind is not in line with the cs rules and regs.

The Prime Minister IS a liar.

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@silverfaun wrote:

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Calling our PM a liar on here is unacceptable and against the cs values. Name calling of any kind is not in line with the cs rules and regs.

 

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Since when is the PM a CS member?