If truth in advertising applied to election slogans the NSW Labor Government would have to run with ‘Vote Labor – Pay Later – Sucker!’
Last weeks we learned that it’s now time to pay the piper for Labor’s mismanagement of our electricity assets and Krudd’s bungling of the climate change debate (which has quietly been relegated as ‘the greatest moral issue of our time’. Every household in NSW will now pay an additional $317 next year to pay for Krudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
In addition to this every household will have to pay up to $601 extra because of the mismanagement of our electricity asset by the most incompetent Labor government NSW has ever known. Bloody minded unions and weak-kneed Labor politicians capitulated before the alter of self-interest when our electricity assets were at a premium. Billions of dollars have gone down the gurgler since then and now we all have to pay for their incompetence.
The NSW Government has milked the electricity retailers dry by forcing them to pay dividends to prop up their crook regime instead of allowing them to reinvest in vital infrastructure to meet our future demands.
Even the self-righteous Penny Wrong has blamed her NSW Labor colleagues for their lack of planning and investment in the electricity sector! The State Labor response has been to elect a photogenic Premier as a distraction. But so far nothing has changed – it’s still all ‘lights, camera – but no action!’
But the slug for NSW households does not end here. In addition to the $918 each household will have to fork out will be cost increases for everything we buy and every service we use because small business is also about to be slugged up to $3000 extra per year. They will obviously have to pass these cost increases onto the NSW consumer. Labor’s ‘working families’ – another meaningless slogan that has quietly disappeared – will be soon be replaced by ‘desperate families’.
To add to our economic woes the cost of dumping the Sydney Metro plan is currently estimated at $500 million and climbing. As the calls for an enquiry into this fatuous waste of taxpayers’ money mount you can bet the paper shredders in Macquarie Street will be working overtime. Macarthur motorists will have plenty of time to ponder how the opportunity for an extra lane on the M5 could be so easily trashed by a desperate Labor government trying to pander to the inner-city Green vote.
If a private corporation wasted $500 million dollars of shareholders money on a pet project instead of investing it in infrastructure to meet future demand the Board of Directors would be sacked. NSW voters can’t wait for the next Board Meeting of Labor’s NSW Inc on 26 March 2011.
