No wonder Kevin Rudds popularity is at an all time high. Australia has to choose between the hyperactive Prime Minister or the stand -for-nothing leader of the liberal party Malcolm Turnbull.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s unlimited guarantee of bank deposits – “we’re supportive of it” – even though it caused a run on other institutions and left state governments unable to borrow. (Now, though, Turnbull correctly calls the guarantee “a financial blunder of epic proportions”.)
Turnbull backed Rudd’s scrapping of WorkChoices, being too scared to deny what he said was Rudd’s “mandate”, even though he knew it would embolden unions and cost jobs.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s $10.4 billion stimulus package – “we are not going to argue about the composition of the package” – even though the mega-splurge was unexpectedly big and will leave us with little to show next year.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s bill to set up $26 billion of infrastructure funds because his fear that the cash would be blown without proper checks was less than his fear of seeming a party-pooper.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s $6.2 billion handout to international car makers even though it works out to a subsidy of around $100,000 for each car industry job, and we’d do better buying cheaper cars from overseas.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s idea to cut our gases with an emissions trading scheme (quibbling only over whether it be introduced in 2010 or 2011) even though the world hasn’t warmed in a decade, Australia’s gases are too little to matter, and this purely symbolic scheme will cost us jobs.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s apology to the stolen generations, even though no one can name even 10 children stolen just for being Aboriginal.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s attack on rich bosses – “I think the level of executive remuneration in many companies over some time now has been very excessive” – even though executives are usually paid what the market says they’re worth, and governments should butt out.
TURNBULL backed Rudd’s tax breaks for new forests to store carbon, even though his National Party allies rightly reckon it a green con that steals good farmland and robs towns of jobs.
Turnbull backed Rudd’s $28 billion funding of private schools this month, because he was too scared to insist schools not be forced to agree to a yet unseen national curriculum.
And the Liberals want to force Barnaby Joyce and the Nationals into taking the same stand as they are. On current Liberal party form that would be a policy of oppose nothing. What a joke.
Source – Andrew Bolt / Herald Sun
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