Labor’s spin doctors are conditioning us for a gloomy outlook next year.
Over the past 12 months the term ‘working families’ was included in every utterance from Kevin 07. His promises to introduce ‘fuel-watch’ and ‘grocery watch’ were literal. All he did was watch them go up . . . and up . . . and up! Not only did Kevin 07 watch them go up – he set up two taxpayer funded organisations to watch them as well! We are slowly learning that the devil is always in the detail with Kevin 07. After all he never did say he would bring them down – all he promised to do was actually watch them. That box has now been ticked. Thank you Kev!
Perhaps we need to initiate ‘Kevin Watch’ to see if we can work out what he really means. ‘Working families’ has recently disappeared from his jargon. The new catchphrase is ‘GFC’ – for those who are not into acronyms this means ‘global financial crisis’. Neither Kev, nor his echo Julia, utters a phrase without mentioning the adversity we surely face from the looming ‘GFC’ !
Their clever subliminal message is that the recession we are about to have in ’09 is not going to be their fault – it’s going to be due to the ’GFC’! How could it be their fault? They have just showered pensioners and young families with billions of dollars in handouts for Christmas. They have committed to an ‘ETS’ (an Emission Trading Scheme) to appease the chattering classes and are about to restore union power back to the bad ol’ days.
The $20 billion dollars left in the bank courtesy of the Howard-Costello government is almost gone. It took eleven years to build and just eleven months to spend. The polls suggest it has worked beautifully for Kev.
Unfortunately the inept NSW Labor Government has taken the form of the grim reaper. NSW is in crisis and will remain so until the next election in 2011. Until then business will continue to flee across the border to Queensland, commuters will sit in chronic traffic jams and stand in crowded trains and patients will be turned away from emergency wards. There is not a single sugar coated lolly left in Labor’s jar in NSW. Unfortunately for Kev the incompetence, mismanagement and corruptions surrounding the worst Labor government in the history of the State was around long before the term ‘GFC’ entered into their political lexicon.
Australian’s are a resilient bunch though. They will ignore the inevitable ‘whine from Kevin 09’ and get on with the job of conquering whatever adversity they have to confront. They have done it before and they will do it again.
In the meantime may I wish all readers of the Camden District Reporter a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – or as Kev would say, MX and HNY!
Tags: Environment, Labor, Liberal, My Opinion, Policy, Politics
