Beam Me Up, Scotty And While We’re At It Let’s Re-post Liberal Excuses Bingo
A few months before the 2013 Election, I posted what (I hope) is
the main image for this post. It was called Liberal Excuses Bingo, and
while it could be debated that the card is full, we certainly have
enough of them in row to shout “Bingo”!
Not that this a good thing.
But I notice that one of the first acts of the new SS Minister, Mr Morrison, is to cut funding to homeless groups.
But we should be fair here. Obviously this has been in the pipeline for
some time and it’s merely been announced now because – three days
before Christmas – this is the appropriate time. After all, the
Christmas narrative does involve a man, a pregnant woman and an ass who
found there was no room at the inn and if it was good enough for Jesus
to be homeless surely it should be good enough for you!
Mr Morrison declared his Christian beliefs with his maiden speech to
Parliament and I suspect he’s trying to make many of us more of like
Jesus. Or else he thinks we’re more like the ass. Whichever, he’s an
“extremely decent man”, Mr Abbott assured us. After all, he “has two
children”, which is a sure sign of decency. Although Mr Abbott also said
that Mr Morrison knew what it was like to struggle with a mortgage,
which suggests to me that a certain lack of financial acumen. After all,
we all need to live between our means and not go “putting things on the
credit card”, and the word “struggle” suggests that he may have
borrowed more than he should have. (While some may argue that a mortgage
isn’t the same thing as putting things on the credit card, they’re
probably the same ones who argue that when governments borrow money at
3% that’s not the same as putting something on the credit card.)
Whatever, the Cabinet re-shuffle is a work of genius! I know this
because I read it in the paper somewhere. By changing a handful of
positions, the government should function much better.
As someone else said, 2014 was Abbott’s year of a horrible anus – or
something like that. It began to go badly sometime around the time that
the Liberals started to realise that they were, in fact, governing the
country and that they’d have to start making some decisions.
The first decision was to remind us that only some promises could be
kept because, well, you can’t do everything. And, although some people
had tried to scaremonger before the election by pointing out that you
couldn’t get rid of the Carbon Tax(?)/Price Signal(?), while keeping the
tax breaks and compensation, this scaremongering did have a grain of
truth to it, so they might as well get down to business and declare that
they would boldly go where Labor didn’t: The Liberals had three main
promises and we were to judge them on these:
- They would stop the boats by turning them around. When people
pointed out that this would breach several conventions and possibly
international law, they overlooked just how little regard the current
mob of “traditionalists” had for such petty red tape. They did this
anyway. - They would repeal the Carbon Tax and Mining Tax. The Carbon tax was a
great big, enormous tax on everything raising billions for the
government and now they were back in charge they had no need for so much
revenue because they’d have the economy booming in no time. The Mining
Tax was simultaneous hardly raising anything, while being an enormous
burden on mining companies. It therefore had to go for two reasons,
which would seem to the economically ignorant to contradict each other. - Getting the Budget back in Surplus. This, of course, was the biggie.
The Article of Faith. This was the justification for ignoring all those
“no cuts” to this or that promises, the co-payments, levies and price
signals, because the ONE thing that Australians had elected this
government for, according to Abbott himself, was to get the Budget back
in the black. And they will. Unlike Wayne Swan, however, who promised a
surplus in 2013, the Liberals did no such thing. They merely suggested
that they’d get it back in their first year, but changed that to their
first term, then 2018, followed by sometime after they introduce their
PPL, but, well, given the changing economic circumstances who can put a
time line on any of it, hey, it’s not like we were specific about a
time, just that we’d do it, and we will, just as soon as the Senate
let’s abolish all those payments to people who don’t really need it like
the unemployed and the sick.
Whatever, I’m content in the knowlege that when they said “no cuts”,
what they claerly meant was “no cuts” before they were elected, and that
they’re a party who doesn’t make promises that they won’t be able to
keep, and that one day they’ll have the Budget back in the black because
that was one of the major promises. You know, one of the ones that
counted.
By the way, in the Liberal Christmas pantomime, who gets to play the ass?
Just in case it’s missing. (Click on image to enlarge)
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