Part 2 of Why is Australia cursed with fools and cowards as political leaders
I wrote last week about the fools and cowards, on both sides, standing for the Queensland Parliament. About their bi-partisan policies of fiscal irresponsibly and about how their self serving spending was jeopardising the future of the next generation and of all Australians. See here.
And so speaking of fools and cowards from Queensland, Commonwealth Treasurer Jim Chalmers had an oped in the Weekend Australian:
Good lord and god help us all.
This is Chalmers’ opening para:
In an increasingly uncertain and unstable global economy, the Albanese Labor government’s responsible economic management is Australia’s best defence.
Albanese Labor government’s responsible economic management. Is Jim on drugs?
For 3 quarters of the term of the Albanese Labor government, Australia has been in a recession. Arithmetically it is a per capital recession but a real recession masked by record government spending and immigration.
Unless that is Jim thinks it is responsible to have record levels of taxes, government spending, public sector employment, and business failures. Hey - he’s a political hack so he might think that.
Paragraph 4:
Australia is not immune from this increasingly complex and concerning global environment. That’s why we’ve put a premium on responsible economic management, paying down billions of dollars of debt and building buffers against this global economic uncertainty while also investing in the future.
On what planet has the Commonwealth paid down debt? Australia’s debt levels are a record levels and rising.
This is from the budget papers:
Every single year, debt is going up. Where is this paying down debt business?
Were is invisible Angus to call out this crap?
And then this crap:
This endorsement of Labor’s responsible economic management comes after the Final Budget Outcome for 2023-24 which confirmed the Albanese government delivered the first back-to-back surpluses in nearly two decades.
Yes. It’s true. The Albanese government achieve 2 back-to-back surpluses. But it did this by destroying the budgets of households and businesses with RECORD, I repeat RECORD taxes collected.
When Chalmers’ concludes with this:
We’re confident that this approach will continue to help shelter our people from volatility as we work with our friends and partners around the world to create a better future too.
Shelter our people. But that he presumably means his ALP colleagues and hangers on because he certainly is not talking about Australians in general.
Doomed. We are doomed.