Cos treasury hasn’t got Sloppy Joe’s calculator!

Cos treasury hasn’t got Sloppy Joe’s calculator!

Only a few days into the election campaign, and already we have that mendaciously meddling megalomaniac Murdoch telling us that we should vote for his boy Abbott.

This was Saturdays front page, before the election announcement.

This was the the front page that caused so much anger.

What he doesn’t tell us is that it’s in his best interest not ours!    😯

Now I can only speak for myself, but I, sure as hell, won’t be told by the likes of Murdoch who I should be voting for.

After all this is a man who’s credibility as a business man has been questioned around the world, and has

been completely and comprehensively discredited by the phone hacking scandal and consequent closing of The News of The World, in the UK.

And this is also the man who gave up any rights to vote or even have a say in our political future, when he voted with his feet, to turn his back on the country of his birth for the sake of money and power.   So as far as I’m concerned, the front page that we should be seeing is;

This is the front page that we should have seen!

We have also seen Abbott, Hockey and many of the LNP, both MP’s and candidates, avoiding answering questions by doing more dodging and weaving than a Maroons fullback in a length of the field try.

The real shocker for me though was when we were told by Hockey and Abbott that they will not be producing a bottom line for their costings, none of which we have, as yet, seen anyway, but then to add insult to injury, we were told that if we want, we can do the sums.   WTF?

So let’s get this right:

1. They don’t trust treasury, to make forecasts, when they are the only ones that have all the relevant data to work with.
2. They don’t seem to understand that a forecast is a prediction of a future situation based on modelling using the best available, relevant data. It is not a crystal ball, that will give a perfect view of the future.
3. They would rather rely on the same sort of process that they engaged in at the last election, where the accounting firm involved, were shown to have used shonky accounting practices, except that they will now have to find others to do the work, , as their first choice has since gone broke and closed down.
4. They are refusing to give the voting public a fair and honest comparison of the bottom line on policy promises, and the question is “WHY?”
5. They want you and me to take their word for the figures that they produce, which they refuse to have tested under Peter Costello’s charter of budget honesty, and then do the sums ourselves to come up with THEIR bottom line, so as to be able to make an informed decision about who can manages the economy best???

Now you can call me naive, but it appears to me that it’s not only the numbers that don’t add up!

Not only have they tried to cast a cloud of doubt over the integrity of the public servants and processes of treasury, who by the way they will have to work with if (God forbid) they do win, but they are expecting us to trust them to accurately cost policies that are big on aspirational rhetoric, and almost totally lacking in detail.

Policies that even their own candidates can’t explain.

So while the LNP continue to encourage people smugglers to send more boats, in a blatant and desperate attempt to prove that the PNG solution wont work, and con people into believing that theirs is the only one that will.

And they will not, and cannot properly cost that policy, or for that matter any of their other policies, while they refuse to follow the charter of budget honesty, the question for them is; 

“How can we believe a word that you say, about any of your policies, when you won’t follow the protocol set down by your own P Costello, in the “Charter of Budget honesty” that he introduced, so that we the voters can make an informed decision?”

And the only answer that I can come up with is;

Cos treasury hasn’t got Sloppy Joe’s calculator!

Sloppy Joes calculator