The Greens oppose the CPRS not because it is too weak, but because it will point Australia in the wrong direction with little prospect of turning it around in the timeframe within which emissions must peak, says Senator Christine Milne.
So where does the end of Budget week leave us?
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So where does the end of Budget week leave us? The overall impression is of a Government brilliant at media management, pretty good at spending, and competent — barely — at saving. On the other side is a divided Opposition unable to settle on a single message and led by a bloke who has promised so much but underdelivered so far. This is one of the most economically uncertain periods in Australian history. We no longer feel on the brink of economic disaster, but whether a recovery is years away or already occurring is the subject of legitimate debate. The eventual return to surplus — and the separate issue of moving to an underlying fiscal balance — is directly dependent on the resolution of this uncertainty. What the Government has failed to provide is a conviction that, if things don’t go well globally, it will be able to maintain some degree of fiscal control and not just blame the rest of the world. What the Opposition has been unable to provide is a sense that it doesn’t regard surpluses as more important than unemployment or that it has a clear idea of how it would achieve a surplus. So far the Government’s stimulus strategy seems to be working. But at some point Kevin Rudd will run out of excuses to spend. That will be a different test of the character of his Government, and possibly a much harder one. |
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“So far the Government’s stimulus strategy seems to be working.”
Does it?
Your purview is blinkered by prejudice and desperation that the ponce you trumpeted as a great leader is not actually what is increasingly apparent: a charlatan.
James, James, you sound so bitter. Lets make a deal: You continue to pour the shit over Kevin Rudd-but without so much bitterness. I’ll confront Peter Costello in the chemist shop, and tell him what a total, lying, cu-t of a bastard he is. Deal?
PS. Why, do you think, have Crikey made it impossible to print your own comments? We used to be able to. No longer,
Cheers
Venise
Venise, ….Be nice to Big Pete…… As per Morpheus…. “He is The One”
JamesK demonstrates yet again that vituperation and intelligence exist in an inverse ratio.
JamesK, why do you bother?
Some day the ever oleaginous David Sanderson will find himself to be the catastrophic success the unprejudiced already painfully know him to be.
@A A: breathtakingly intelligent comments such as yours? Noble initials but apparently representing little of consequence.
See what I mean?
Case closed.
Indeed.
http://tv.nytimes.com/show/43051/Case-Closed/overview