… and their accomplice.
But first the monkeys. The lie from Wayne Swan …
At the centre of our challenges we face in this year’s Budget is the huge hit to government revenues we’ve taken since the global financial crisis.
The truth can be seen at Catallaxyfiles …
Do visit that link, there are some more graphs and some of the comments are spot on. It will show you that it ain’t the income that’s the problem, it’s the expenditure. But if you are going to sustain the expenditure you have to raise the money somehow. Your superannuation looks nice. The Cypriot solution, it’s obvious.
Enter Rob Oakeshott, he thinks it’s a great idea. Remember that he will leave the Parliament (hopefully very soon and with a large boot up his arse) with a nice big super safety net, provided under a completely different scheme to ours.
I have worked hard and saved sensibly for my retirement, reforms by Keating and Costello helped, the frequent changes to the rules did not. The only way we will ever see a good superannuation system is when the pollies are under the same rules as the rest of us.
Meantime, get your hands off my super, you thieving bitch.
bobmcgee 