Labor in decline...

[Rorschach]

Well as the sane people here know the Carbon Tax is starting to rear it's ugly head. Unlike the rusted-ons who are the "useful idiots" of the ALP we never fell for the "look its in and nothing happened" message Labor tried to spin.

Labor's economics is failing Australia and Australians.
December 18, 2012
James Robertson
Reporter

UP TO 23,000 households in NSW had their electricity cut off for failing to pay their bills last year, a new report has found. Read it and weep Emerson you moron.

The report by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal found there had been a 25 per cent increase in disconnections for non-payment last financial year, up from 18,500 the previous year. The number of gas customers disconnected rose by 15 per cent. Gee I wonder why? Surely the compensation is more than enough to cover any price rises and hey they weren't going to tax us just the big polluters...

''Bills have been increasing substantially,'' said the chief executive officer of the tribunal, James Cox, who wrote the report, which was released on Monday. ''More people are getting into a position of having a problem meeting the bills''.

But energy retailers rejected a call from the tribunal to do more to help people find alternative means of paying their bills, such as negotiating payment plans. Oh now that's a joke. they don't need a payment plan they need more money or smaller bills. morons.

''We're asking people to come to us,'' said a spokeswoman for the Energy Retailers Association of Australia. ''All retailers have a lot of options available.''

But Mr Cox's report found the number of customers on payment plans had held steady, despite the rise in disconnections.

Chris Dunstan, of the University of Technology Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Futures, said power bills had doubled in the past six years, because the cost of investment in power networks had been passed on to consumers. Yet only since the Carbon Tax have bills become completely untenable. The Labor line about investment costs is also a furphy, but then anything Julia a Co say can be taken with a grain of salt.

The NSW Energy Minister, Chris Hartcher, called on retailers to do more to promote payment options and said the government had increased consumer protection and delivered a $75 energy rebate to 540,000 families. idiot!

The opposition called for more assistance packages and warned of further price rises if the government sold the state's electricity generators. Oh yes lets sell off yet another essential service...

About 0.8 per cent of NSW homes had their power disconnected compared to 1.02 per cent in Victoria and 1.35 per cent in South Australia.

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[Rorschach]

Well thanks to the "Tweedles" we are now starting to see the effects of the Carbon Tax and Labor's broader economic management. Idiots like; Emerson, Swan, Gillard, Shorten, Combet, etc, were all spouting look it's in and no disaster. How stupid do they honestly think everyone else is. They may fool their rusted-on mindless hords of "useful idiots"... but not the rest of us. We stated that it will come and now we are starting to see it.

Increases in homelessness, inability to pay bills, cutting back on discretionary spending, hell even the number of houses with Xmas light displays has diminished.

[Neferti]

Sorry, but most people about now are thinking Christmas. Not Politics.

Let's TRY to do the same.

PS Rorschach did you see the very long "From Jesus to Christ" ? Extremely interesting for someone like me who is an atheist, now, but did read the Bible at one stage, when very young. .

[Rorschach]

Lying is easy: Turnbull calls for less spin
December 28, 2012 - 5:51AM
Natalie Bochenski

Malcolm Turnbull has called for less spin in politics, savaged the negativity of public debate and criticised lazy media during a public address at the Woodford Folk Festival.

A large crowd – including former prime minister Bob Hawke - packed the Concert Stage area of the festival to hear the shadow communications minister and one-time leader of the federal Liberal party.

“It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous,” said Mr Turnbull.

“It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.”

The prolific tweeter acknowledged he took a share of the blame in being drawn into negativity and the “game of politics”, but said politicians and the media were wrong if they thought they were “helping battlers” by using one-line sound bites. Epiphany Malcolm ?

“They are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt,” he said, to a round of applause. Labor treats everyone like they are a moron. The Libs aren't far behind.

“It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people 'there are no easy solutions here'.” Well none you dunderheads can think of.

He called on any web entrepreneurs in the audience to establish a “rigourous” fact-checking website, saying all public figures should be held to account.

“It is a disgrace how much misinformation has been got away with.”

Mr Turnbull said federal Treasurer Wayne Swan continued to accuse the Coalition of voting against measures to protect Australia from the global financial crisis in late 2008, when in fact it voted for them. Mr Turnbull was Liberal leader at the time. Idiot Labor rusted-ons say the same things here.

“That never gets reported, because the media has got to the point where they are so cynical about politics that they do not expect politicians to tell the truth,” he said.

“So if politicians are not being held to account, why would they bother? What is the incentive for them to tell the truth? Honesty? Ethics?

“Well, of course, there should always be an incentive to tell the truth, which is doing right thing by the electorate.

“But truth-telling and responsibility have to be a key undertaking, a New Year's resolution for each and every one of us in our federal and state parliaments in 2013,” said Mr Turnbull. That'd be a major change for Juliar and the Australian Lying Party.

He said the world was changing rapidly, with profound challenges ahead of us.

“We have to ask ourselves this question: in the face of a converging world ... how are we going to equip ourselves to deal with that?”

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[mellie]

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Whilst Labor have been in decline since, well, since Keating really, it really hit rock-bottom the moment they installed Jewliar Gilad.