NedKelly

Just cut the NBN and be $36Bn up!

Centurion

Broad Shoulders

Were you involved in doing the original costings of the LNP's election budget? It would make a lot of sense given your statement

ex_exile

Do you work for Tony because thats coalition logic.

Their figures DO NOT include the NBN, but I guess if you cut it again you could save twice as much money...

NedKelly

As opposed to Labor logic where you spend to buggery and give everyone $900, then to balance the books just tax everyone and anything that moves and add in a little extra tax to produce a surplus.

MartinLuther

Outside of a GFC I could see how that would look bad.

IvanM

I would prefer someone that can add up. You would normally have Liberals as economically responsible. The idiots chose an auditor that would do their will in return for more business.

What amazed me was just how little Labour played their economic report card which has had a relatively positive media showing. The next two years would have proven how competent they were.

Something to recall is Peter Costello having to try to reign in Howard. Howard forgot about responsiblity in the last election and KRudd did not play the pork barrel upmanship game. Howard was blessed by massive mining receipts. Even Tony Benn could have turned a budget surplus.

They will both blow the books to get elected.

Centurion

In a GFC I can see how $900 to everyone can look bad as well.

spalen

You had a typo there, I corrected it for you.

MartinLuther

That, I can believe.

ex_exile

I know I know, economic growth, jobs growth, record company profits growth, no recession and moving the country back to surplus can be soooooooooo annoying for Coalition supporters.

spalen

Absolutely - how can those muppets be proud of saying that "we just did it - we didnt cost it , it was done on the back of a sheet of paper " I paraphrase.

They spent 40 odd billion dollars of OUR money on untested, unproven, untargeted, ill considered handouts that *we* will *all* be paying for. It was a loan - not a hand out.

They should have used that money to build stuff and employ people in worthy projects not burn it in the pokeys. (oh wait a minute, they cant do that properly either because they have a track record of cost blow outs - perhaps they should just pack up and go home )

spalen

Courtesy of resources that have been under australia's soil for bazillions of years and the fact that the chinese are burning them at a rate faster than anyone can dig them up.

ex_exile

No arguments here, a shaved chimp could run the Australian economy at the moment (yet I'm still against Abbott, go figure..)

MartinLuther

Costello was starting to get embarrassed about how much tax payers money he was hoarding. I have no reason to believe that the coalition wouldn't have been handing it out willy-nilly during the GFC as well.