2013 Budget . All talk here

[Bully]

All the talk here

Plans for Brisbane to upgrade bottle necks on the gateway motorway north of the airport, and south with the pacific motorway merge.
Swanny says it wont be tolled, but local governments say it cant happen without it

[Bully]

surplus predicted in 2016/17

IF labor gets in again, im sure that "surplus" would be in 2022/23

[Bully]

24billion road and rail funding package over 5 years. lets me guess, 3 quarters of it would be for western sydney

[southee]

Swanny for all the time he has been treasurer has been a joke.

[am Bays]

We don't trust you to spend the money so we'll spend it where you think we should

Money taken away from families for their own self interest groups.

Political suicide in Australia to neglect the middle class, they've just committed it.

[Jimmy_041]

I wish r&b was still here so I could see the upside of this budget and voting Labor this year

[Grahaml]

Don't talk about the Treasurer of the Year 2011 like that.....

Good response early by Hockey I thought. Seemed less gleeful like a Shadow Treasurer normally is when a bad budget comes out and more saddened and disappointed. Probably easy to do when the budget is going to do all the talking and he's already measured up the chair for his office in September, but just those few sentences gave me the impression he knew his stuff and the direction he wanted to take things. I'd not really heard that from him as yet.

[Q.]

Political suicide in Australia to neglect the middle class, they've just committed it.

They were already dead.

About time we stopped pandering to the self-entitlement of the middle class anyway.

[Leaping Lindner]

Political suicide in Australia to neglect the middle class, they've just committed it.

They were already dead.

About time we stopped pandering to the self-entitlement of the middle class anyway.

My heart bleeds for the (effing) Middle Class.......

http://m.theage.com.au/business/federal ... 2jii7.html

[southee]

Thanks Wayne.....we are screwed !

Wish time would hurry up to get these clowns out of office!!

[mick]

Thanks Wayne.....we are screwed !

Wish time would hurry up to get these clowns out of office!!

Can't argue with that

[Sojourner]

I wish r&b was still here so I could see the upside of this budget and voting Labor this year

Given the circumstances that the ALP now find themselves in, that involve the previous decisions they made that have led to it, Swan has probably done as good a job as he can with what he has to work with.

Swans problem with selling the budget is his previous promises of budget surpluses and how previous budgets would created a further 500 000 jobs on top of the existing economy and so on. No one is going to take 10 year plans seriously from him as a result and I think he knows that anyway.

I think Joe Hockeys initial response was measured and appropriate. He too will have the same constraints initially in terms of the numbers that he has to work with to bring the nation back to surplus. Will be interesting to hear his response in full and what he will be doing differently.

[Psyber]

surplus predicted in 2016/17
IF labor gets in again, im sure that "surplus" would be in 2022/23

I wouldn't hold my breathe waiting for it to materialise, even in 2023.
I think they secretly share the Greens view that no amount of debt is unacceptable. .

[mighty_tiger_79]

peak debt $356trillion

[Dog_ger]

The Sooner We Get Rid Of These Guys The Better.

They have no idea.

[Bully]

HERE HERE

[GWW]

peak debt $356trillion

Trillion - wow, worse than I thought.

[Q.]

peak debt $356trillion

Trillion - wow, worse than I thought.

It's not trillion.

[GWW]

Sorry, forgot one of these....