Just a reminder about Abbott







http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/suedunlevy/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/a_big_black_hole_in_abbotts_credibility/

Referring to the original post in this thread.

[i]Rudd is finished.[/i]

Bolt may have jumped the gun a bit on this one, if forums such as this one, as I suspect, are a microcosm of the voters.

Rudd in this latest example..Miners tax...has some traction with a fair section of the voters, who see a socialist utopia, with everyone sharing in the wealth of the evil rich. For some reason, which I'm at a loss to understand, they seem not to be able to look back and see into the recent past. On another forum I visit, there is a whole thread tut tutting about those evil miners and their ads in opposition to the govt.

Not a word about the embezzlement of $38.5 million of taxpayers money..not a word or a tut tut on Rudd's truly vile language..not a word about every policy of Rudd's turning to disaster, and costing in the $$$BILLIONS.

Not a word about the never ending stream of hypocrisy, lies, distortions, and misinformation and cunning covert actions that many don't even know about, unless they take the time to look past the plasma tv set bought with Rudd's??? Cheque.

For example:

THE fix is in. The Rudd Government has purged the refugee bureaucrats most likely to knock back applications from asylum seekers.



And it’s replaced many with activists more likely to let them in.



The political payoff for the Government? This should help empty the embarrassingly full detention centres a bit faster.



The statistics tell the story.





The above from Andrew Bolt this morning.



.....



The unemployment figures down right?

I don't have a source for this, but I heard on the radio, 5% only of the latest rise in jobs are in the private sector.

The rest? Goverment jobs! Nice way to bulk up the job figures, and again from this bloke who 'promised' smaller more transparent govt.

I wonder which of the $1billion worth of consultants came up with that one.

Are these figures from Andrew Bolt correct? Is there any way of getting

the Federal & individual State figures, particularly the West Australian

Gov., figures? I am fully aware that this man is more arrogant than

Paul Keating, but, over 25,000 new public servants in 1 month is very

close to unbelievable. I have just found the figures for the States & was

somewhat surprised to note that NSW & WA, both dropped the largest

% amount, but not, of course the equal numbers. I cannot find a

breakdown of the of the public/private figures.

Are these figures from Andrew Bolt correct? Is there any way of getting

the Federal & individual State figures, particularly the West Australian

Gov., figures? I am fully aware that this man is more arrogant than

Paul Keating, but, over 25,000 new public servants in 1 month is very

close to unbelievable. I have just found the figures for the States & was

somewhat surprised to note that NSW & WA, both dropped the largest

% amount, but not, of course the equal numbers. I cannot find a

breakdown of the of the public/private figures.



No Innes the employment[u] figures are not from Bolt.[/u]As I said, I just heard someone on the radio , who seemed to know a bit about the figures, but I didn't hear it all, so unable to give a source. Would be good if you could check it out.

Don't forget, Rudd has spent $1billion on consultants, so nothing surprises me. Also, those figures might even be spread around the States..not just Canberra. Here in Vic, Brumby has created a couple of new posts in his govt, for example.

I have a feeling (feeling got me pregnant*) that Rudd will survive.

Miners are doing nicely, they are wickedly rich.

They behave as if they own the mines.

People are slowly digesting it all.

I think Rudd is right; let's see*

I think he is right too

I have just read through the previous posts and I despair. Most comments are based on emotional responses not logic. A vote for the Greens is usually a vote for Labor, and that is the way the preferences go as a rule. Anybody who can still defend Rudd after they way he has mismanaged this country for the last three years, is beyond my comprehension. I am just hoping that a few promising independents will appear and rock the boat.



Regarding the mining tax, I do not have a problem with the "wickedly rich" mining magnates making huge profits. They expend millions of dollars on exploration, often with no return. The shifty suggestion that we "own" the results of their success, is pandering to the greed of people who can't think for themselves. What will happen to the balance of trade figures if our mining exports disappear? What else do we have to take it's place? There are certainly more questions than answers regarding this grab for money, and I for one am not happy that we have not received any solid information to back up the claims that the Government is making.

I have not seen any of Rudd's $38mill yo enlighten us about this tax.

This article made some sense

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/meganomics/index.php/theaustralian/comments/mining_the_figures_uncovers_deception/

Rudd should be getting the message this morning following the all time

record turnaround of nearly 25% swing in Penrith. Labor is on the nose

in NSW, but, the Liberal back room boys, believe that nearly half the swing

is due to the Rudd influence. It is concidered that the swing was more

against Labor, than for the Libs. At this stage, I believe that there are only

2 reasons that will save Rudd's leadership on Tuesday. Firstly is Gillard's

loyalty & secondly is the fact that she is not a Union backed appointment.

BTW, it is of note that the Green primary vote in Penrith in early counting

has gone from 5 1/2% to over 12%. Watch the Seat of Marrickville become

the first, Lower House, Green Seat, in NSW, next March !!!

I have not seen any of Rudd's $38mill yo enlighten us about this tax.

This article made some sense

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/meganomics/index.php/theaustralian/comments/mining_the_figures_uncovers_deception/



That is an interesting article mara - thanks for the link.

One of the comments about this story.



Marilyn Shepherd

Tue 25 May 10 (02:08am)

George, why is there even this inane debate? Why should the mining moguls not pay more tax when they are destroying the country, polluting the waters, the soils and ripping up the natural environment not to mention BHP in SA only pay 3.5% and get 3 million litres of water per day for free.



The NSW mineral council website is instructive - 1.3% of the work force is all they employ and almost all the filthy coal they mine is going to China, destroying crop lands, making people ill and so on.



Never mind the bloody tax, what about the country?



The simple reality is that mining is not booming as Ric Battelino pointed out last week. It is still only about 6% of the GDP and only rose briefly with price rises.



But with RIO staff in jail for corruption, Santos still responsible for that mud, BHP for OK Tedi and new spills in Kakadu it is time we had a moratorium on digging all this stuff up anyway.



We don’t make all that much out of it and we contribute huge amounts of pollution in the process.



At this rate in 30 years time we will be left with a massive pit and no place fit to live.

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett is a clever little vegemite. He's increased the fines royalty from 3.75 per cent to 5.625 per cent, so his state will receive an extra $340m in revenues in 2010-11 and a forecast $1.06bn over the next four years.



After a year of talks, RIO Tinto and BHP Billiton have agreed to pay an extra $1.4 billion in state royalties and other payments over the next four years for the right to share their port and rail networks.

As there is continued use of products using steel, aluminium, glass, concrete, copper, tin, silver, gold, diamonds.................AND..........timber, rubber...........AND, oil and gas, there will always be suppliers.

We all use some, or all the end products made from the above resources, and, as people are using them they COMPLAIN and blame SOMEONE ELSE for the holes in the ground, the polluted water, polluted air and de-forestation, etc;.

Many of the end products need electricity, so lay the blame on Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday for their discovery.

Well, we may not have the same problem after 9.30AM this morning.

At 9.00 AM there will be a Party Leadership spill & it looks like we will

have our first woman Prime Minister. It says something for the nature

of Rudd, that the Party has pushed Gillard into putting up her hand, to

get rid of Rudd before he totally destroys any chance of re-election.