I'm glad you like Tony's budgy (sic) smugglers, you can see the outline of his polices.
LMAO, yes and he has it firmly in hand most of the time as he practices his lines in front of the mirror. "Magic Mirror tell me today, have all my toe cutters had fun at play"
Elantra, and MM, you are so right, and the glaringly obvious disparity between the have's and have not's in Johnny's last year of Govt, demonstrates exactly who paid for the surplus. Us !! Average Aussies went without to fund that position, while the Mining companies were given the concession of all concessions. Our wealth at $1.00 in $7.00. The previous Labour Govt charged $1.00 in $3.00. It's self evident who was favoured in that little back room deal yes? Why are the mining companies paying so little since the Howard Govt eh? How do they reconcile that with the NATIONAL interests? Under Abbott, they'll probably be paying .50 cents in $7.00. I'd like this issue debated given that it concerns short sheeting Australia's return on their own wealth.
And lest we forget, During the last two years of the Howard Govt. the richest 200 Australians announced RECORD profits of 22% & 26% respectively on the back of the commodities boom. I posted a point form glimpse of how Average Aussies were fairing in the same Year Little Johnny was Telling us 'We'd never been better off". Where I live, the unemployment was out of control - 23 jobs advertised per week with 12,000 job seekers. We had one of the highest foreclosure figures in the country, the lowest wage rates, and no access to any services because Johnny had literally starved them dry from the Fed level down. Meanwhile Johnny and Stone were asserting that we had a 'Once in a Lifetime' labour market and anyone not employed was simply 'work avoidant'. I wrote to Howard at the time with statistics, pointing out that with 23 jobs per week and 12,000 job seekers, "Work was avoiding us". (btw, I wasn't unemployed thankfully, but many many of my fellow residents were)
His Govt. robbed 1billion dollars from the public health budget and gave it to the Private Health market (this in a time when the wealthy, or otherwise better off, didn't really need such biased concessions).
In fact, I'll go back and do an analysis as I did previously, on exactly how Johnny robbed Peter (The Aussie Punters), to Pay Paul (The Aussie Rich). It should then be self evident how Johnny was able to put us into surplus. Nero fiddles, Rome Burns.
Abbott's now proposing to rob another billion out of the National Public Health Budget? What's changed? They can't tax mining. Oh heavens no, let's rob the public purse instead and provide sub standard 2nd world health & hospital standards instead ?
But as I said, I'll go and get the actual factual evidence so you can figure it out for yourself. Any Govt that has to Rob people of basic services while advantaging the rich in every direction is not acting in the National Interest. I challenge both parties to bring the issue of mining remuneration to the next debate. Let's see which of the two kings are wearing no clothes.
