Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 18
th, 2011 at 8:19am:
longweekend58 wrote on Jan 18
th, 2011 at 7:12am:
Dnarever wrote on Jan 17
th, 2011 at 10:15pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Jan 17
th, 2011 at 9:56pm:
WOW you really thought no one woudl rebuff you on those, did you? well I did and the score is at BEST 3 out of 4 and the fourth is pretty dubious since it is nothing more than a waffle promise subject to any interpretation you wish.
Not one of your better efforts!
Sorry Longy but you really said nothing with substance: colourful though
Today there is no Carbon tax (like it or not) and still nothing before parliament no draft no recomendations nothing, The Rebate legislation is in place, The super changes were that significant I do not even remember what they were and judging by your response neither do you.
our response is pretty disingenous. Gillard, by her OWN WORDS is planning and moving towards a carbon tax. that is a clear breach of her election promise. and the super changes were significant involving the halving of the self contribution amounts and a few other periperal changes. That is also a breach of the election promise.
That was kinda my point.
Interesting though that he took the arguments of what is CURRENT Government policy - which is only the Liberal controlled opposition we have to thank for that!!
If there had not been Liberal opposition -
1) We would have a carbon tax.
2) We would have private healthcare rebate removed for millions of ordinary families
3) We would have further wholesale changes to super for people
All of which broke the promise of the pre-election campaign.
Not to mention the appalling blaming of John Howard for interest rate increases then when in office state 'we've done all we can do, it's a macroeconomic problem' when rate rises and cost of living increased.
That wasn't so much election promise breaking, rather poor form.
I love how conservative loonies love to remind us of election promises.
You really want to start a list of the election promises between 1996-2007? Let's not get ahead of ourselves and pretend one side is so much better than the other.
Politicians are exactly that - politicians. They change and wriggle each time there is a change in public mood or in general circumstances.
So do me a favour and get over it. After all, maybe they just weren't "core" promises?
Not to mention that you can blame your littletard for the way he dealt with the electorate over his 12 year reign of nothing. Mr "I'll promise you a pet hippo in the backyard if it'll get me your vote." Now all we have is the media during elections running around crazy off their nutter waiting to hear the next one-liner, that is somehow meant to be policy. And the electorate eats it up.
Maybe if you actually got out of your little partisan bubble and start to think about politics more broadly we might actually get decent leadership and people with some convictions. As it stands both are retarded and both lie out of their cracks just so they can score an extra vote here and there.
And it's only rational people who understand this, and who don't bitch about it and whinge about it. It's the nutters who let it happen that then will start crying at every opportunity. Sad sucks.
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