Hockey tells NZ, Oz economy great + no budget crisis
Last night in a NZ tv interview Joe Hockey confessed to there being no budget crisis or a weak Australia economy. Instead he emphasized the strenght of the Oz economy. He said his measures as treasurer were taken with a view to the future, not in response to the current economic situation!
In his recently realeased official biography Joe Hockey states he would have like a tougher budget but Abbot advised against!
Bill Shorten has now come out to say Joe Hockey is an entitled rich man who has always had everything his own way and thus cannot feel any charity for average and poor Australians.
Joe Hockey is the man caught smiling, laughing and dancing with his millionaire wife to the song, The Eest Day of My Life in his office just before he delivered his budget. His wife wore a new dress costing almost $800 to celebrate her husband‘s triumph.
Before the Budget was delivered Joe Hockey and Matthias Cormann were spotted sitting relaxed and happy outside Parliament House, chatting and laughing while smoking expensive cigars.
More shocks have emerged from the government, including this weekend. All unemployed, it emerged today, up to age 49 must work for the dole. At the moment those up to age 30 must work 6 months to then get 6 months Newstart. Working 12 months to mly get the dole for 6 months a year!
This weekend a young homeless couple and their dog, living in their car near Ballarat, were found dead from accidental gassing from the bvane heater they were using in their car to stay warm overnight.
At the moment the LNP government have under consideration the McClure report which they indicate they would strongly like to implement asap. Report only open to public consideration for 6 weeks! There will only be four classes of welfare payments. Anyone of aged pension will only get this pension, ie no other such as dsp. The DSP will only be available to those deemed permanently disabled, no criteria defined yet. But plenty won‘t meet this criteria, as the government has pointed out, such as the mentally, and other profound disabities of all kinds. In the UK the Conservative govt outsourced to private sector dsp assessment and many disabled were thrown of their pensions. There have been deaths from illness exacerabation and suides. Many dsp pensioners will be forced onto a working age payment which will have two or three tiers, including Newstart. They are looking to raise the age at which Youth Allowance can be had also.
4 area of welfare will be family payments which have been slashed also.
Pensioner educational supplement will cease as of 1 Jan 2015. Ausstudy recipients will no longer receive Austudy in their summer break. How will the ones without rich or supportive parents pay their rent?
Crazy neverending unnecessary cruel and punishing cuts. And Hockey and Abbott have said they will bypass the Senate to get their cuts through.
An article in Fairfax newspapers said no reputable Australian or international economist has been found who believes there is a budget crisis. In fact, the manufacturing of an Australian budget crisis has been met with incredulity and ridicule overseas.