Abbott getting slammed wherever you look/read.
"So the Prime Minister is not just a liar. He's a winker. A granny calls a radio show and explains that she works on a sex chat line to make ends meet (so to speak), and Tony Abbott's initial response is a knowing nictation (sorry, just had to put that in) and an adolescent smirk.
....All good fun, amusing for one giddy turn of the news cycle, and I suppose it reminded a lot of people exactly why they dislike Abbott so much. The next day, under some pressure, he admitted it had been a mistake.
But in the grand scheme of things the wink doesn't matter a hill of beans. It is this rapacious and incompetent budget that is the real issue.
.....The other startling thing is the sheer muddle of it all. No one in the government, from the prime minister on down, seems to know when the rise in university fees will cut in, or just who will have to pay the new doctor tax of $7 a visit. When Abbott and Joe Hockey tried to faff their way through this stuff on Wednesday with bland assurances they were swiftly contradicted by the Australian Medical Association and a gaggle of university vice-chancellors.
Still, hope springs eternal. "I would like to be in a position to offer tax cuts in our next term,’’ Abbott said on Wednesday. “... the whole point of getting the budget under control now is so that we can give ** tax cuts in the not-too-distant future.’’
Yes, yes. Another day, another Abbott wink-nudge for the gullible. Pigs cleared for take-off."
Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-wink-a-distraction-from-the-real-problem-20140522-zrl1m.h...** tax cuts that will make the high income earners better off, Hockeys plan all along.
