Australian Federal Election 2016

[bigfield]

My time for earning an income is limited. And I shall need savings to retire with. A country will always be collecting taxes and so doesn't need savings for its old age.

In other words, countries can magically produce money tree farms, similar to wind farms. A country, like a family cannot spend money it doesn't have indefinitely. Eventually the creditors will call in their money. If you don't repay your credit card, the bank will cut off your credit. Countries are run in similar fashion, only on a much bigger scale!

:laughing-smiley-014

Who is going to call in their money? Most of Australia's public debt is owned by other sovereign financiers, whose countries trade with Australia and therefore have a vested interest in our continued productivity.

The worst possible thing Australia could do is opt for austerity measures (a la Abbott's fake 'budget emergency') and kill our economic growth.

Thank you for once again demonstrating that you can't tell the difference between a household and a country.

The Labor party in power spends like a drunken sailor. It then takes a Liberal government up to three terms to bring the reckless spending under control. It's been like that for decades. The only sensible spending Labor government was the Hawke-Keating years.

Liberal governments sacrifice economic growth (and therefore revenue) in order to achieve surplus budgets; they are extremely short-sighted administrators and downhill skiers.

The wages Accord with the unions and opening up the financial institutions produced the prosperity Australia enjoyed, and still enjoying today, which was put at risk by Rudd/Gillard/Rudd. That's not ideology, those are facts!

Real household debt grew more quickly under Howard, and even more quickly under Abbott/Turnbull, than it has under any other government. Wages are declining under Abbott/Turnbull; something that has not happened since Fraser. Income growth is lower now than it has ever been since WW2. Business investment is lower now than has ever been since WW2, despite hitting a record high under Gillard. Innovation investment is at its lowest since Whitlam.

If we want prosperity, the facts show that we have the wrong party in Government.

 

[gmbteach]

My time for earning an income is limited. And I shall need savings to retire with. A country will always be collecting taxes and so doesn't need savings for its old age.

In other words, countries can magically produce money tree farms, similar to wind farms. A country, like a family cannot spend money it doesn't have indefinitely. Eventually the creditors will call in their money. If you don't repay your credit card, the bank will cut off your credit. Countries are run in similar fashion, only on a much bigger scale!

Are you kidding me?

Countries will continue to produce money as long as citizens within them have jobs and can pay taxes! To do that, sometimes a country has to spend to create jobs to keep the taxes coming in and thereby stimulating the economy.

Or you provide the means for people to spend in their local stores, which produces jobs, which bring in taxes.

Saving that money means that people are paying into the coffers, but getting nothing in return. Taxes are not there for the country to save, but to RUN THE FRICKING COUNTRY!

Now do you get it?

 

[bilby]

In other words, countries can magically produce money tree farms, similar to wind farms. A country, like a family cannot spend money it doesn't have indefinitely. Eventually the creditors will call in their money. If you don't repay your credit card, the bank will cut off your credit. Countries are run in similar fashion, only on a much bigger scale!

Are you kidding me?

Countries will continue to produce money as long as citizens within them have jobs and can pay taxes! To do that, sometimes a country has to spend to create jobs to keep the taxes coming in and thereby stimulating the economy.

Or you provide the means for people to spend in their local stores, which produces jobs, which bring in taxes.

Saving that money means that people are paying into the coffers, but getting nothing in return. Taxes are not there for the country to save, but to RUN THE FRICKING COUNTRY!

Now do you get it?

But what if the country wants to go on a nice holiday; Or to retire and play golf or go fishing; Or falls ill, or gets injured and can't work?

What happens if our nation gets fired, or is made redundant?

Savings are essential if our nation doesn't want to have to keep working until it dies of old age.

 

[gmbteach]

Are you kidding me?

Countries will continue to produce money as long as citizens within them have jobs and can pay taxes! To do that, sometimes a country has to spend to create jobs to keep the taxes coming in and thereby stimulating the economy.

Or you provide the means for people to spend in their local stores, which produces jobs, which bring in taxes.

Saving that money means that people are paying into the coffers, but getting nothing in return. Taxes are not there for the country to save, but to RUN THE FRICKING COUNTRY!

Now do you get it?

But what if the country wants to go on a nice holiday; Or to retire and play golf or go fishing; Or falls ill, or gets injured and can't work?

What happens if our nation gets fired, or is made redundant?

Savings are essential if our nation doesn't want to have to keep working until it dies of old age.

OMG! You have angelo disease! Quick - grab the smelling salts of common sense...

 

[angelo]

In other words, countries can magically produce money tree farms, similar to wind farms. A country, like a family cannot spend money it doesn't have indefinitely. Eventually the creditors will call in their money. If you don't repay your credit card, the bank will cut off your credit. Countries are run in similar fashion, only on a much bigger scale!

:laughing-smiley-014

Who is going to call in their money? Most of Australia's public debt is owned by other sovereign financiers, whose countries trade with Australia and therefore have a vested interest in our continued productivity.

The worst possible thing Australia could do is opt for austerity measures (a la Abbott's fake 'budget emergency') and kill our economic growth.

Thank you for once again demonstrating that you can't tell the difference between a household and a country.

The Labor party in power spends like a drunken sailor. It then takes a Liberal government up to three terms to bring the reckless spending under control. It's been like that for decades. The only sensible spending Labor government was the Hawke-Keating years.

Liberal governments sacrifice economic growth (and therefore revenue) in order to achieve surplus budgets; they are extremely short-sighted administrators and downhill skiers.

The wages Accord with the unions and opening up the financial institutions produced the prosperity Australia enjoyed, and still enjoying today, which was put at risk by Rudd/Gillard/Rudd. That's not ideology, those are facts!

Real household debt grew more quickly under Howard, and even more quickly under Abbott/Turnbull, than it has under any other government. Wages are declining under Abbott/Turnbull; something that has not happened since Fraser. Income growth is lower now than it has ever been since WW2. Business investment is lower now than has ever been since WW2, despite hitting a record high under Gillard. Innovation investment is at its lowest since Whitlam.

If we want prosperity, the facts show that we have the wrong party in Government.

Thank Zoroaster socialism doesn't work and more Australians know that and voted accordingly.

 

[angelo]

In other words, countries can magically produce money tree farms, similar to wind farms. A country, like a family cannot spend money it doesn't have indefinitely. Eventually the creditors will call in their money. If you don't repay your credit card, the bank will cut off your credit. Countries are run in similar fashion, only on a much bigger scale!

Are you kidding me?

Countries will continue to produce money as long as citizens within them have jobs and can pay taxes! To do that, sometimes a country has to spend to create jobs to keep the taxes coming in and thereby stimulating the economy.

Or you provide the means for people to spend in their local stores, which produces jobs, which bring in taxes.

Saving that money means that people are paying into the coffers, but getting nothing in return. Taxes are not there for the country to save, but to RUN THE FRICKING COUNTRY!

Now do you get it?

Oh, I get it! The Labor disease of spend and tax at all cost. If that rainy day ever arrives when some savings would see you through the crisis, don't worry about it for you just go to the back of your garden and ask the fairies to pay the bills!

 

[bigfield]

Thank Zoroaster socialism doesn't work and more Australians know that and voted accordingly.

Classic Angelo: the argument goes over his head so he responds with a stupid one-liner.

Those Australians must be pretty ignorant indeed if they believe socialism doesn't, work despite the fact that they can get blood tests at no out-of-pocket expense.

That's funny. I went for a battery of blood tests this morning. They didn't cost me a cent!

And they must be pretty ignorant indeed if they believe socialism doesn't work despite receiving the age pension.

In fact, they're so ignorant that they can't see the evidence in front of their faces.

 

[bigfield]

Oh, I get it! The Labor disease of spend and tax at all cost. If that rainy day ever arrives when some savings would see you through the crisis, don't worry about it for you just go to the back of your garden and ask the fairies to pay the bills!

It's hard to tell the real conservative from the satire at this point:

But what if the country wants to go on a nice holiday; Or to retire and play golf or go fishing; Or falls ill, or gets injured and can't work?

What happens if our nation gets fired, or is made redundant?

Savings are essential if our nation doesn't want to have to keep working until it dies of old age.

 

[bigfield]

Q&A: Professor Brian Cox takes on Senator Malcolm Roberts in climate change stoush
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-16/professor-brian-cox-vs.-senator-malcolm-roberts/7746576

What the fuck, Queensland?

 

[bilby]

Q&A: Professor Brian Cox takes on Senator Malcolm Roberts in climate change stoush
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-16/professor-brian-cox-vs.-senator-malcolm-roberts/7746576

What the fuck, Queensland?

It's a democracy - idiots are entitled to representation too.

Indeed, given their numbers, it is perhaps surprising how poorly represented the 'blithering idiot' demographic actually is.