So it seems the idea, judging from Cormann’s comments this morning, is to king-hit the poor and low income earners, and then … blame Labor for not allowing them to spread the pain to the upper-income echelons.
“Oh, ye poor and humble of circumstance… IT’S ALL LABOR’S FAULT we’re kicking only youse in the guts.”
They are effectively holding a gun to the head of the electorate.
“Pass our legislation, or the cripple gets it. And I’ll shoot the kids, and the Abo too. One hostage every hour until Labor caves in.”
Their modus vivendi is intimidation. They are political standover merchants. Always threatening, always dividing. Their “class warfare” allegations against Labor are the mistaken take on affairs that comes from preening yourself in front of a mirror too often. It’s they who are the wreckers.
“Nice little country you got here. Pity if sumpin’ bad was ta happen to it.”
Mark Simkin, last night on ABC TV news, put it pathetically. Tony Abbott is showing that he is prepared to make sacrifices too. What a guy! Simkin had in his eyes a look that was a mixture of outright embarrassment and ideological fire. He’s a well-coiffed, well-dressed out-and-out Abbott luvvie, but even he couldn’t disguise the disgust, mixed with excitement that he was feeling as he did his piece to air.
Good God… if they pulled this off (his eyes were eloquent) then Abbott really is a political genius. The punters would swallow anything at all if they swallowed the claptrap about how Abbott was making sacrifices too.
Yesterday was the ultimate test of chutzpah: how to break a promise and expect the public to thank you for it, after all the railing, garment renting and teeth gnashing about broken promises when they were in Opposition.
Get Kennet and anyone else handy out onto the hustings to tell us what dire straits we are in. Who knew? They believed Treasury and MYEFO. But Treasury and MYEFO were nobbled, with Treasury full of traitors and MYEFO hopelessly based on impractical, pie-in-the-sky assumptions. Trust Labor to trash and misuse the very institutions put in place to safeguard our nation’s economy.
They always put us on the back foot. There’s always an emergency, or a threat we have to react to. Under this mob there is no “business as usual”. There is only chaos and uncertainty. The Whirling Dervish of the boxing ring has made it his life’s work to cause turmoil and upset and then seek to benefit from it. He knows no other way. As they say, it’s in his DNA… anarchy. He is no happier than when the punters are restless, because in confusion is profit.
He was thrown out of the seminary because he caused too much trouble. He was in open revolt against the ruling circles of the Church and they had to get rid of him. He waged a whispering guerilla campaign of destabilization and pseudo-intellectual moralizing. God knows what he, a would-be parish priest, thought he could accomplish from it. There was no other option for the Church but to let him go.
Ever since he’s made a lifestyle out of the king-hit, the unexpected “Where-the-f**k-did-that-come from?” assault on ordinary people, from various walks of life, just trying to get on with their daily business.
Unless you understand that Abbott is never happy unless he is causing trouble, you can’t understand the way this country is headed: government by brain fart, holes punched in walls either side of innocent people, isloation and encirclement of hapless victims, threats, going the heavy, holing hostages.
Abbott doesn’t work by raising others to a higher plane. He works by flattening all opposition, then kicking them when they are down. Look at the photo above. They’re trying to hold him back. That way he comes out on top simply because he is the last man standing. Everything about him is menacing and violent because that’s the best, quickest way to rip apart the polity and put your own twisted nightmare in its place.
For a long time I’ve wondered whether Abbott was acting as if he knew he was on borrowed time – political or even existential time. His entire life has been devoted to making it through the day, by and means, fair or foul, the better to be present next morning so he could tarnish another reputation, destroy another institution or corrupt another tradition.
He will say literally anything. He set it all out in that famous interview with Kerry O’Brien: tell a lie, don’t get nailed down, seek forgiveness later. He is always testing his audience: seeing what he can get away with. Giving in to him only encourages him to go further next time.
And if they won’t forgive you, ruin them as an example of how you base your life on pure aggression, an aggression so fierce and malignant that normal people can’t be bothered fighting you. It’s just not worth it. Cut Abbott some slack and he might go away and pick on someone else for a change.
He has all the fire of a zealot, with the talent for intimidation of a gangster. Bull or bear market, Abbott takes his profit by simply threatening peace loving people with aggravation until they give in.
Previously he’s had mentors to back him up, and to guide him. But now he’s the boss and we’re seeing just what a mad dog can do when it’s put in front of the pack.
Australia has to make a decision. It needs to keep in mind, though, that there is no satisfying the Abbott’s of this world. Anarchists are never satisfied, by definition. They’re always looking for the next thuggish high, an even bigger hit to feed their habit.
Abbott has given himself three years to wreak as much irreversible damage on Australia as he can before he’s railroaded out of politics for good. Even he must realize that he’s cooked his own goose in the last 8 months. There’s no second term for him in the offing. That’s plain now.
His party is in revolt, even the cherished Murdoch newspapers are writing nasty things about him.
Speaking of Murdoch, he probably thinks he has Abbott’s measure, that he can control him. But you can never have the measure of a madman. Sociopaths like the Prime Minister see trust as a weakness, to be exploited. They don’t care if they shit in their own nests, and they certainly have no trouble with shitting in anyone else’s nest. The only thing that matters is the high they get from causing trouble and panic in others, from seeing their opponents decked on the mat, bleeding from the ears.
There are others who believe they had his measure, too. Hockey, Reith, Pauline Hansen, Arthur Sinodinos in the political sphere come to mind. SBY and the Malaysians in the geopolitical circle.
He dudded Reith and Hockey, stabbed Hansen in the back, completely outclassed Turnbull, and gave Sinodinos the Jesuit’s kiss of death by telling the poor Greek gofer boy he was his greatest admirer (sad little Arthur, now a humble backbencher, probably still thinks he can make a comeback).
As to SBY, Abbott put out some weasel words about respecting Indonesia’s territorial waters, then invaded them. He sacked the poor low-level saps in the Navy who believed him when he said he’d back them all the way.
He big-noted himself about about finding the Malaysians’ plane, made out that he was personally in charge, bragged that he had a secret that he he could only tell to the Chinese (the Malaysians must have twigged by then, let’s hope), then abandoned the search and, for good measure, will be sending the Malaysians the bill.
To Abbott, promises are just a breath of air, evanescent, temporary measures designed to get him to the next square on the big political game board.
He has made parsing his own words – always in his own favour, of course – not only a personal hobby, but a national pastime. When he says something a whole industry, from pundits to stakeholders, goes into overdrive trying to figure out the loopholes he’s left for himself, and who will be betrayed this time.
The carnival barker always lies. The mob take that for granted. So the spruiker’s job, in these circumstances, is to bet the crowd that they can outwit him. But the game is always rigged in his favour. If it looks like he might unaccountably lose out in the latest swindle, he simply packs up and walks away.
The punters, think they invested their vote – I mean, it’s only a vote, right? – a small risk. Then they are left empty-handed and bewildered. They all thought that other bloke, over there was the one being scammed, when it was them all along (or rather, all of them, all along).
Now even his own party is discovering they’ve been scammed, too. They’ve put a bull in charge of their own china shop. Abbott makes it up as he goes along. He is always confronting, testing, intimidating… not because it needs to be done, but because it give him his kicks.
He got to the top by deception and intrigue, and outright betrayal of his comrades on the way up. He places fait accomplis in everyone’s path: “Give in or I’ll wreck the joint.”
Sadly, many do give in, but they squirrel away their grudges for the day when they can get their revenge. Abbott is always embarrassing them into defending him. One day, however, someone will shout “Enough!” and start a movement to oust for good from politics, so he can’t do any more damage to them, or to – as many are now realizing – the nation.
Don’t expect Abbott to go quietly. That is not his style. He has a good deal more trouble to cause before he accepts that he’s finished. We’ve had one preening narcissist in charge of Australia from the Labor side, but at least Rudd, for all his madness, wanted to do good and even great things in among the murk and madness of the way he ran his office.
Abbott, on the other hand, has the purity of the perfect aggressor, with the added certainty of having God on his side. He exists only to dish out the next king hit on the next unsuspecting mug. His shit-eating grin is never broader than when he is causing trouble and mayhem, havoc and angst.
He tries to kid us (and may even try to kid himself) that there’s a purpose to it, but there isn’t. It’s just the way he is: a kid who grew up as a Golden Boy, who got away with everything by using charm and (if necessary) thuggery, deceit and lies.
Always protected in the past, he is on his own now, and we are seeing the full panoply of his capabilities to lie and deceive, to scam and falsely flatter. His canvas isn’t a back room at a party meeting, or a canteen at an aged care facility where he can wow the old ladies (or stare at the young ladies’ breasts). He isn’t on a bike ride anymore. He’s got a whole country to wreck now.
And Australia – you, me, our neighbours, our institutions and our values – are in his sights.
Until someone stands up to him, until someone takes him by the scruff of the neck and boots him out – like the Catholic Church did all those years ago at the seminary – it’s “Welcome to Abbott World”.
In case you didn’t realise, you’re standing in it.
THE PUB 
Thanks BB – insightful read.
Just had a check up on Newspoll. In 2013 and 2013, they’d published 7 federal polls by May 1. This year it’s 5.
Just got redirected here. Will catch on BB’s story now.
Good piece by Andrew Leigh on inherited privilege
http://inside.org.au/the-remarkable-persistence-of-power-and-privilege/
What Newspoll finds – as opposed to what they choose to tell us – over the next two to three months will decide Abbott’s fate. If he goes down the path of more taxes and if those taxes and cuts lead to poor polls then all the blaming of others and seeking forgiveness, let alone king-hitting anyone, will count for nothing. Murdoch wants to keep the LNP in power, not Abbott – in spite of how golden he thinks he is.
If things go as most reasonable people think, there is an almighty poll crash coming his way. Murdoch will prop him up for a while. You know the drill. Offensive cartoons of ALP people. Long noses. Small dicks. Rat tails. Then there will be some “Australia Needs Tony” posters. There will be wall to wall headlines about Royal commissions, although the ICAC ones seem to be on hold. For now.
But, this time, he might have gone too far. More taxes? Less pensions? GP Co-payments? There are broken promises and then there are broken trusts. The former you can get away with. The latter you can’t, particularly if Rupert Murdoch sees that he has basically sacrificed half of his market share for someone who could only last one term.
If the polls go down, Abbott goes out. Not straight away but with the certainty that he will. But don’t expect any ‘faceless men” headlines…
More news from Morrison’s Luxury Resort
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/g4s-guard-describes-standoff-between-asylum-seekers-and-png-guards
This is the first time we have had the numbers of those involved.
Not pleasant reading.
There’s no-one holding him back now. He’s the boss. The Liberals put him there, at great cost to to the polity, and now they have to try to figure out a way to tame the untameable.
It can’t be done of course. Abbott is too convinced of his own self-importance for that.
Comb-overs won’t help him.
Abbott’s blue ties are now tied with a proper Windsor knot. Who taught him to do this?
Neither will Windsor knots. Even when he speak quietly he sounds like he’s about to make a threat.
BB
He looks more menacing by the day!
My feeling is that they think they can still get away with the ‘fixing up Labor’s mess’ meme they’ve had going. While’s there’s mileage in it they’ll continue on that way. It’s not accurate and it’s probably not fooling anyone either, but I guess it’s supposed to serve as a reminder of why people voted Coalition in the first place. It makes people place ‘Labor Waste’ (which they did believe in) alongside current criticisms of the Abbott government – confusion between the two helps to obscure people’s understanding.
But that line has a use-by date, and the one that comes along after that would be the ‘getting the bad news out of the way early’ meme, which some in the press are tentatively putting forward. The trouble with that one is that Abbott is doing nothing of the sort. He’s just throwing terrible ideas out there. The entire AS policy was a terrible, unworkable idea. Hockey’s rampant borrowing is a terrible idea. Deciding to throw money at searching for a plane that has nothing to do with us, that was a terrible idea. ‘Knights and Dames’ was a terrible idea. ‘Deficit Tax’ is a terrible idea. And as economists are already telling us, anything the Abbott government is doing budget-wise, is going to have no positive impact down the track, in fact they’ll likely make everything worse. So the idea of ‘pain now for gain later’ is dead before it’s even begun. But they’ll try it out anyway.
There’s no future in anything in the environment area, that’s all going to get a lot worse. And if Direct Action ever gets off the ground, it’ll be a massive waste of money as well. Truss has no ideas for infrastructure beyond the Badgerys Creek fiasco and taking credit for things the ALP did. Turnbull is using all his intellectual energy finding ways to explain away capitulating to Murdoch’s every whim, so communications are a mess. There’s no end-point in mind for anything, no forward thinking in any portfolio. The only ideas they ever had were Stop the Boats (they can’t, as it turns out) and Pay Off the Debt (which they’re getting further away from every day). So the idea of pain now for gain later is a complete fallacy.
So all that’s left is Abbott squirming and re-jigging things like PPL slightly to try to appease the public. Or rebranding the Debt Tax on a daily basis until one of his fraudulent explanations sneaks past the bullshit meter. It’s all short-term PR solutions from a short-term PR government.
The dominant theme, one we identified before the election by the way, is that of a party totally unprepared to govern because they never paid it a moment’s thought in the last two terms, and bluffing their way through everything. Salesmen with no product to sell.
Their main concern is working out what attitude best represents all the stuff they said to get elected. It was all crap, they know that, but they have to look as if they’re still selling it.
gorgeousdunny1
A year or so back there was an article about a paper which looked at the names of the nobles who came over with William the Conqueror. An amazing number of the families are still in the Toff class.
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ICAC & the missing $4k cheques: After 2011 state election John Caputo made chairman of fundraising of Tony Abbott’s Warringah branch. Bravo!
Yet Kennett says an election wipes the slate clean.
If election promises mean nothing, then why did the punters vote for them? Why bother making them? Why bother reassuring the mugs that they are ALL ABOUT keeping their promises? That’s a promise to keep a promise, actually.
Was it wishful thinking by the voters? They they really believe that, from Day #1, everything would change? That the shops would be bursting with shoppers and profits would climb steeply?
Don’t laugh… there’s more truth to that than meets the eye.
The government that said it was adult, and that said there would be no surprises or excuses, has done nothing but surprise (and not in a good way) and nothing but make excuses.
All those hundreds of policies that were government-ready, prepared in case they had to take over in case of a No Confidence motion or a popular revolt (remember those days?), fully filled out and costed, have not appeared. They are still stuck up someone’s bum, waiting for the urge to brain fart to come along.
Sad that Julia Gillard had to deal every day with this vile character. And it’s him that the media praised, not Julia.
Bushfire Bill,
Top analysis and a great read.
Labor well ahead in NSW –
https://www.facebook.com/KeepCalmAbbottWontBePMForever?fref=nf
For those who can access the AFR (I can’t) here’s the link to the full story.
http://www.afr.com/p/national/nsw_asset_sell_off_will_be_an_uphill_ULlcjAZubLvR9lqAicME0H
If that polling had been done today it might have been even worse news for the Baird government. They flogged off the port of Newcastle yesterday, 50% to a Chinese company. Baird has beeen gloating about the amount he received- he hoped for $1 billion, the final amount was $1.75 billion. The money will be used to upgrade the Newcastle CBD and for new ‘infrastructure’, or so they say. It will most likely be frittered away.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/port-of-newcastle-leased-to-hastings-in-175-billion-deal-20140430-37hbu.html
Hockey will be pleased, this is what he wants the states to do. Flog off public assets and use the money to build new assets, which can then be flogged off to build more new stuff. Hockeynomics at its er – best.
Ignore the dumb headline on this piece – ‘Howard’s battlers’ was a term I loathed and I don’t like seeing it return.The article makes a good point though – Abbott is kicking his own supporters, voters in seats that are very vulnerable and could easily be lost next election.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/coalition-welfare-cuts-hit-john-howards-battlers/story-fn59nsif-1226901472127?sv=ecd162d085423ce050dc2b538997c20d#
rnm1953
A happy snap of Abbott and Caputo. Also Wendy Finianos from the Warringah Chamber of Commerce
Just got home My day. Spent $60 at GP. I think get $35 back. Call that a co payment. Another friend has just cancelled a appointment with a neuro specialist. Cannot afford the $310 up front. One gets a $100 back I believe. Yes, also on the t pension. Has deeded he will jus have to put up with the shakes. Only a real problem if one wants to write one signature.
Get to Woolworths checkout. Woman behind counter saying she will be keeping the job she has had for 13 years, as now she has to work to 70. Doesn’t think she will get another.
Man ahead f me, said to all present that he will have to set up another slosh fund, to pay for next weeks grocery.
I got the sense, during my visit to he local shopping area, that none believe in is about Austral being broke. Got the sense, there is anger in the air.
Did anyone watch Kennett’s rant last night. It seems that Oppositions tell us nothing before they are elected, and put the boot in from day one after they are.,
Should have cut everything, including penalty rats. Seems to think Abbo0tt is gu6tless for ot doing so,
It appears we will have competitive federalism. Yes, private enterprise will supply all.
I wonder who will allot all those contracts.
How did government departments come about in t e first place. Could it have been, that private enterprise cloudy not or refuse to supply what people need.
What will replace all the departments. Will they appoint business managers to take over the role of the PS and the government.
How can one bring such drastic changer to the process of government, with out sending the economy into free fall.
Another whinge heard loud and clear while at the shopping centre. Yes the seeling off Newcastle Harbour., Complaint that the money s not to be spent in tis region, but going to Sydney.
It is not usual to hear anyone talking about politics here. Even when the Thomson mater was in the news each day.
That used to be Bertie Wooster’s claim to ancestral fame, KK. Came over in the Conquest, don’t-ya-know. Fictional, of course, and Wodehouse’s own ancestors actually got ahead through the upward mobility of the more recent Empire class of soldiers, merchants and bureaucrats.
I could believe it, though. I remember reading about when the Normans set up, one of the keys was a series of fortresses from which could be despatched ruthless cavalry. They made short work of any sniff of rebellion, looting and possibly torching the surrounding country, before returning to the safety of the fortress. It was pretty much like the Mafia (maybe not so surprising that they ran Sicily for a while) in control and punishment right down to paying off God in a big way for all the sins they’d committed.
Vandals
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/commission-of-audit
Yes, no penalty rates, increase the GST, no hurry for Gonski, clean Labor’s mess, never mind if you break all the promises.
Kennett – arrogant, irrational, lunatic, crazy and monstrously unattractive.
The shape of things to come or just a way of making Abbott look like a good guy by saying ‘but we only want you to pay $6?’
Will be interesting to see if any f the so called journalist question them on ideology, not this so called audit. I wonder if any will challenge the assumption that Hockey and Cormann has put forwarded.
The Henry report was on economics. This is not. This is about remaking the government., budget and economy in their image.
Well i believe I paid 25 this morning. I, get 35 back GP
And the $15 payment is for everyone, not just high income earners, and those on concession cards will have to pay $5.
@TurnbullMalcolm Didn’t make to your mate #NevilleWran funeral? Did Abbott say no again? Nuts like cotton wool #auspol
Old Roy getting cranky again. I happened to be walking past Town Hall again (having had no idea what was on) and went over for a squiz. Got “this close” to PJK. Overheard his partner (?) making her annoyance at the Turnbull – wasn’t he a business partner and mate? – no-show.
Has anyone heard any reference to the fact we have had a very high dollar for years s, that has had huge impact on business, leading to reduce taxation revenues that could explain the so called deficit.
Maybe the system is not at fault.
Turnbull is godfather to Wran’s son, Hugo. To me that means the two men were close. You don’t ask a passing acquaintance to be godparent to your child. Turnbull said Wran was a ‘dear friend’. So why wasn’t he at the funeral? Bastard.
Sounds like Hockey’s making a complete hash of explaining the Commission of Audit to us. Brainfarts all over the place. And from what I’m hearing he admitted not once but twice during questions that there won’t ever be a surplus. He also said something about it being ridiculous to expect them to keep all the promises they made pre-election.
Again – they shouted “Budget Emergency!” at us all last year, and now they’re saying the economy isn’t as healthy as they expected it to be. Lies, lies, lies.
I actually like a couple of recommendations. Feds moving out of the education field. Would mean Pyne would have no say.
Have sad for a long time, we should look returning taxation power back to the states. Staters would then b responsible for raising the money for their programmes. I cannot see this one coming off. Cannot see the feds giving up their power over the states..
The auditors who produced Tony’s shiny new report have each been paid $1500 a day for their work. Thank heavens Abbottdidn’t ask Costello, he charged Newman $3300 a day. Apparently $1500 a day is a bargain rate for consultants. I could be nasty and say ‘you pay peanuts you get monkeys’, I suspect that’s just what Abbott has done. Paid peanuts to five trained monkeys who were commissioned to parrot back the government’s agenda for the next 6 years.
Still, it’s good news for Abbott. He’s managed to take some of the heat off himself by making people angry at the whole party. All he has to do now is wait for a unicorn.
The only thing I can’t understand is why the Liberals are so keen on making themselves unelectable for a generation. There must be some sort of reasoning behind it.
I take it the Commission of Audit process went: “Here guys, take this list of things we and the IPA want to do, and this barrel of money, and go and write a report telling Australians it’s what the country needs.”
Shorten and Bowen are using “Joe Hockey is lying” and “Tony Abbott is lying” quite a lot. Good on them.
Doing this review of growers on the Murray River in our council area has been an eyeopener…..most of these farms are family holdings…some small some larger, but most are limited by the natural accumulation of generational capabilities. Now, because of market control shifting from local to interstate / international , from state identities to multinational corp’s and the “free market philosophy”, their markets have shifted so that their source of revenue has become completely unstable…and with many older farmers being out of touch with internet sourcing of markets, and the property being run by either a manager / son the job of keeping the operation going is becoming impossible.
So that some of these properties, even with a good product, good management, hard work, cannot compete against the huge “fund managed” or “Managed Investment Scheme” mega-farms that dump massive volume onto the market…..you end up with the one person manager / worker / expertise / marketer / family-man working part time off-farm trying to bring in a bit of extra income to keep the farm going…..it doesn’t bode well.
That is what happens when the big shopping malls come to town….the local produce gets swapped for interstate mega-suppliers, and the local stores cannot buy into the cheap contract produce till the entire supply chain from the farm-gate to the kitchen table comes under the control of “Fund Managed” shareholders and the bottom line.
The following section of dialogue is from a “ABC. Landline” program : 2/6/2009.
“…BILL MCCLUMPHA: MIS schemes are inherently unstable and economically corrupt. Undesirable economic outcomes are inevitable whatever the scheme.
PRUE ADAMS: Bill McClumpha is an anti-MIS flamethrower from way back. When Landline reported on managed investment schemes three years ago, Mr McClumpha and some of his colleagues vented their frustration by setting alight an effigy of an MIS manager.
BILL MCCLUMPHA: We could see commodity markets being flooded, we could see our future gradually diminishing, and that’s pretty much exactly what happened.
You just drive around this district, Prue, you can see all the dried-off properties, you can talk to the agencies that help people in trouble; the financial agencies, the social agencies; and it’s a bloodbath.
PRUE ADAMS: In fairness, the Sunraysia’s woes can’t all be blamed on managed investment schemes. One thing is certain, though; MIS companies have bought lots of water, applying price pressure during the drought.
BILL MCCLUMPHA: A lot of growers such as myself ended up paying $1100 per mega litre for their water which is absolutely unsustainable.
PRUE ADAMS: Timbercorp alone has huge dams. It’s bought and leased a total of 153 gig litres. To put that in perspective, it’s well over half Adelaide’s annual needs.
The water is one of the failed company’s chief assets. Some are calling for it to be sold off as environmental flows, but the local MP has issued his own plea to Korda Mentha.
JOHN FORREST: Don’t fall for selling the water to the Government. If some of that water is available that could be spared to generate revenue, put it back into the marketplace and give some of my struggling growers an opportunity to have access to it.
PRUE ADAMS: When you fly between Mildura and Swan Hill one thing is glaringly obvious; Timbercorp didn’t just dabble in horticulture, they planted it out big time.
The main crops of choice here are olives and almonds…”
(PS. The water permits they bought was in many cases from the dairy farmers that were forced out of the industry…..JC.)
Just got in,
Thanks BB for the effort in putting up that great post.
I guess we will see soon if the Australian public are really that gullible to be sucked in again by this rabble.
I hope not ,and that things become very nasty for the idiot and his rabble.
Yet you will see these “struggling farmers” once again go to the ballot box fiercly clutching the LNP. “how to vote” card in their hand!
Shanahan writes:
Apart from the fact that this comes from the keyboard of someone who has a political horizon of 2 weeks (the period between Newspolls), to hear Shanahan say it’s a courageous report that will require “guts” to implement is music to my ears.
Abbott’s crash-through or crash mode of living is about to meet harsh reality.
In case he doesn’t get it, the hard times were supposed to be dropped upon those people, over there.
Y’know… the bludgers, single mums, disability rorters, overseas pensioners, wrinklies, low paid workers, women without calibre, parents who send their kids to state schools, tree-huggers, manufacturing sector workers, unionists, people who can fruit that Janet Albrechtsen doesn’t want to eat, Eddie Obeid, the chronically ill, Western Sydney, anyone who doesn’t listen to Ray Hadley, and especially poufters who want to get married***.
Not us.
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*** And if you live on the Central Coast, not chinks or Lebbos, either.
It’s all turning into a bit of a reckless Tea Party show. I reckon,Joe,that ordinary families are starting to have doubt about what they did at the election. Would be a fine weekend for a Newspoll.
The IPA list I read last year is now on show for everyone.
Al,
Not just ordinary families. Fed up posted earlier about the super market whingers.
A bloke I know who is a rabid Lib supporter couldn’t bing himself to mention Abbott by name but was frothing at the mouth about all of these new taxes that the “Govt in Canberra” is going to bring in.
I believe Mark Simkin is an old Scotch boy, Jeff Kennett’s alma mater.
Scotch boys are aware they are privileged but clueless about how any one else lives – too busy deflecting the bullies
That promised $550 that every household would be better off after the scrapping of the Carbon Tax just grew wings and is flying out the door at a rapid rate
Mark Simkin went to St Aloysius College, Milson’s Point.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2005/03/30/famous-alumni-on-lathams-hit-list/