Andy Semple

Julia Gillard’s budget’s advice to Wayne Swan

Well, we all know what Julia Gillard’s imaginary friend John, would do…

It would seem the time tested proverb; “those who don’t know shit are doomed to stand in it…” will come home to roost tomorrow night.

The definition of a budget deficit is when Government spending exceeds the funds the Government receives from taxation and other revenue in any financial year.

2012-2013 Budget Deficit $??.?bn - pick a figure anywhere between $10bn to $35bn

2011-2012 Budget Deficit $43.7bn

2010-2011 Budget Deficit $47.7bn

2009-2010 Budget Deficit $54.8bn

2008-2009 Budget Deficit $27.1bn

Wayne Swan has presided so far over $173.3bn in total Budget Deficits.

He has also presided over $272.8bn in total Federal Gov’t debt (When John Howard left office in late 2007, the Federal Gov’t was debt free.) 

Economist Milton Friedman was right: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 yrs there’d be a shortage of sand.”

 

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Steve Hunter is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator and lives in Buderim Queensland.

 

 

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The Walking Deficit

Just watch Labor get out the tax increase bazooka on Budget night.

ONE of the nation's top financiers yesterday joined the debate on the country's rising debt level - describing it as dangerously high.

AMP chief economist Shane Oliver also urged the government to stop using economic comparisons to countries in Europe and the US to justify a predicted 80 per cent blowout to $165 billion this term.

"It just shouldn't be this high," said Mr Oliver, who said the government hadn't taken advantage of the decade-long resources boom.

"If you take Ireland for example, it has had a similar level of public debt to Australia in 2007 and only six years later, debt is over 100 per cent of GDP."

Tax and spend – that’s all Labor know, but worse, there is nothing to show for the spend…

GILLARD government debt levels are forecast to blow out by 80 per cent to $165 billion in this term alone - that's a whopping $14,000 for every working Australian.

Analysis of budget documents revealed that, between the 2010 election and federal Treasury's update in October last year, the 2012-13 net debt estimate rose $54 billion to $144 billion.

With Wayne Swan having junked the commitment to a surplus this financial year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecast Treasury would raise the estimate by $21 billion in the May Budget.

"The government is starting to develop form when it comes to over-estimating the improvement in its budget balance," Merrill chief economist Saul Eslake said yesterday.

Business Council of Australia CEO Jennifer Westacott said federal government spending was "out of step" with revenue, creating "a budget management crisis".

"If that doesn't change we are going to have a serious public debt problem," Ms Westacott said.

Her fears were shared by Monash University professor of business and economics Jakob Madsen, who said: "It's a dangerous trend and it's at the wrong time. It's completely unnecessary to hand out left, right and centre and the way they do it is not very clever."

The Coalition is focusing on a number even larger than net debt - the total value of bonds and other securities issued by the government, or gross debt, which has ballooned from $151 billion at the 2010 poll to $267 billion now.

The definition of a budget deficit is when Government spending exceeds the funds the Government receives from taxation and other revenue in any financial year.

2012-2013 Budget Deficit $??.?bn - pick a figure anywhere between $10bn to $35bn

2011-2012 Budget Deficit $43.7bn

2010-2011 Budget Deficit $47.7bn

2009-2010 Budget Deficit $54.8bn

2008-2009 Budget Deficit $27.1bn

Wayne Swan has presided so far over $173.3bn in total Budget Deficits.

Just add that to your list of reasons why Labor has to be voted out on Sept 14.

 

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Which part of “Global” don’t you understand, Flannery

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Flan-oracle’s flim flam predictions

So why is Flannery still Climate Commissioner?

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Oh Dear…UK Met Office admits global warming is at a standstill

The Met Office has admitted that global warming has stalled.

There will be no further warming of the planet over the next five years, the Met Office has forecast. The downgrading of the Met Office’s predictions for the effects of climate change means that by 2017, there is projected to have been no global increase in temperature for almost 20 years. They concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve.

The UK Met Office has revised its global temperature predictions as a result of a new version of its climate model and climate simulations using it. It now believes that global temperatures up to 2017 will most likely be 0.43 deg C above the 1971 -2000 average, with an error of +/- 0.15 deg C. In reality this is a forecast of no increase in global temperatures above current levels. 

Yet, under Labor, Australian businesses are still paying the highest Carbon Dioxide price on this non-warming planet.

Australia $23.00 AUD per tonne of CO₂

EU $8.04 AUD (€6.46) per ton of CO₂ (DEC13 ICE ECX EUA Futures)

Come July 1, our carbon tax rate will increase in line with inflation from $23.00 to about $23.50. Meanwhile, the price of CO₂ futures continues to decline on European markets.

Foxtrot me dead! We’re being charged a pointless tax to "save" the planet that isn't even warming!

Thanks Labor.

 

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The Wind Power Scam

Listen to Alan Jones talk to Dr Alan Watts about the ill health effects of wind power.

"The Wind Farm industry is based on greed, ignorance, subsidy and institutional deceit. Its propaganda rewards the greedy, flatters the gullible and exploits the well intentioned." - Dr. Alan Watts  

 

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What really gets taught in the classroom at Weather Reporting School

And the squints in the white coats at the IPCC are doing their part also…

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The World-Wide Renewable Energy Scam

And no, we’re not making this up. Read here and here for the facts.

If anyone besides the Government was involved in such a scam, it would be called organised crime.

 

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Andy is on holidays in a country that will probably never ever introduce a Carbon Dioxide Tax. He returns in early October 2012.

Gillard’s Go Green Auto’s

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Andy is on holidays in a country that will probably never ever introduce a Carbon Dioxide Tax. He returns in early October 2012.

Wind Power’s Dirty Little Secret

The above photo is the Gladstone Power Station, which happens to also be Queensland's largest coal-fired power station. Notice the clean skies above condensation towers.

The 1,680 megawatt power station accounts for approximately 13 per cent of Queensland's installed electricity generation capacity and plays a pivotal role in the supply of electricity in central Queensland. Gladstone Power Station receives its primary fuel supplies from the Xstrata Rolleston and Anglo Callide coal mines.

The above photo shows the rare earth factories in Baotou, China. This is where rare earth metals are processed into neodymium magnets. Notice the man-made lake in the front of the picture shows water is mixed with foul-smelling radioactive waste from the industrial process.

This is an aerial photo of the man-made lake outside of Baotou, China (NY Times).

Each and every wind turbine has 2,500 kg of neodymium magnets inside the wind turbine generator.

The mining and refining of neodymium is so dirty and toxic - involving repeated boiling in acid, with radioactive thorium as a waste product - that only one country does it - China.  This year it flexed its trade muscles and briefly stopped exporting neodymium from its inner Mongolian mines. Forget Middle East oil, how’s that for dangerous reliance on a volatile foreign supply.

The Gillard government will allocate over $13 Billion dollars of taxpayers’ money to help fund even more of these useless monstrosities and as already demonstrated above, wind turbines create more pollution in their manufacture than what they can save once they ever become operational, they kill thousands of birds and bats each and every year they are in operation, they affect human health, blight our beautiful landscapes, cost a fortune to install and maintain, require 24/7 back-up  gas or coal power source (so what’s the point of them in the first place?), cost on average 2.2 jobs for every 1 job and to top it off, they don’t reduce our Carbon Dioxide emissions one iota and the Australian taxpayer will still be forced by the Gillard government's Clean Energy Future legislation to buy billions of dollars worth of foreign Carbon Dioxide abatement certificates from snake oil salesman from dodgy 3^rd world countries who will never cut an ounce of Carbon Dioxide emissions. In short – we have all been conned.

Correction:

I have been informed that the original photo representing the rare earth's processing plant in Baotou, China, is actualy a picture of the Lasengmiao Power Plant in Inner Mongolia.I have replaced the Lasengmiao photo with an accurate photo of the rare earth processing plants in Baotou.

 

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