Lone voice of the Right
The Lone voice of a right winger on this site..
Does anyone see any signs whatsoever that this Abbott government is rabidly riight wing?
If you look at what this government has done, you’d be hard pressed to point to any right-wingery at all, you would wallowing in despair at its almost total absence.
Anybody think this is a tax-slashing government? That’s because it has, raised taxes. Income taxes? Up. The scope of the GST? Up. petrol tax up? True, mining tax carbon dioxide tax were both eliminated, thanks for small mercies.
But enough money is being spent by this government on ‘direct action’ – money that can only come from taxpayers and money could easily be better spent on other things – like raising the pension .
. Meantime the Treasurer responds to claims that this is a tax-raising government by pointing to what taxes would have been had we elected Labor at the last election Wow where's John Keys who has guts .
Meantime the hints of a GST hike to 15 per cent are never categorically rejected; they are never unreservedly taken off the agenda.
I’m aware of the feral Senate and the unrepresentative swill that presently occupies its benches. I know that getting just about anything through the Upper House is a mighty big ask.
But this government doesn’t even seem to try to cut taxes. And it never makes the case direct to the voters. As Hawkie did so well ..As for the pre-election call that ‘we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem’, well the entire Coalition front bench appears to have had a simultaneous conversion on that one, and then decided to take a vow of silence.
What about free speech and the desire to legislate ,that mean even bigots could speak their minds, and (shock, horror) perhaps offend or insult someone without the machinery of the State being brought to bear against them?
.) if this sort of free speech commitment is right-wing, we have all seen how the Abbott government sold it down the river , ’. Right-wingery should be made of sterner stuff.
What about taking a really stern hand to the ABC and its ongoing and shameless bias?
The government has asked the ABC to investigate itself. And the ABC has obliged by appointing a couple of people to do that investigating. Phew! Maybe these are two hard-nosed ABC sceptics who’ll take a firm hand with the billion dollar a year public broadcaster. Would you believe it? would you believe that one has made remarks in the past about how unbiased and terrific the ABC is and the other has a pedigree with the SBS? That Malcolm Turnbull is exactly the Minister we want overseeing the ABC, isn’t he.
Meanwhile the Human Rights Commission keeps sucking up public funds running a Green Party line on everything. The taxpayer keeps forking out money galore to Australian Research Council social science projects that all lean left. The latest is taking away double dipping on PPL for civil servants is a breach of human rights..
How much funding of ‘stop the boats’ or ‘traditional marriage’ is there??
And there is not a hint that our overly rigid labour relations regime, the one Julia Gillard gave us, will be touched in any solid way at all. even though the workers are voting with their feet for work choices . 90 per cent now prefer to make their own arrangements not unions who sell them down the river..
Is there any sign at all that this Abbott government has been a right-wing one by the standards of Conservative governments in Canada, in the UK, in New Zealand.
Only by the standards of the Greens does Abbott look to be running something rabidly right-of-centre.
bet Mussi is wondering no such thing. I'm sure he realises the only way you can answer is by using reams of copy and paste of someone else's opinions.
For all those who think they have cut the pension nope they raised it .
For all those who think they cut education nope they raised it .
For all those who think they cut health nope they raised it .
Cut the debt nope they raised it .,,
Any action to stop the wealthy getting free GP visits Nope
Any action on Howard's Family tax credits middle class welfare.. Nope .