"John Howard taking voters for mugs - The Age 15-4-2005
"There is no excuse for the Prime Minister's latest broken promise.
John Howard has treated the voters with total disdain in hacking into the safety net. He has absolutely no excuse for breaking an election promise that was repeated over and over, and formed a central part of his campaign."
It was a deliberate lie, and his 'excuses' are feeble nonsense.
"Weeks ago Howard ditched last year's undertaking not to substantially increase Australia's troop numbers in Iraq. On Monday he'll be waving goodbye to the 450 troops he has since committed.
He justified (dubiously) that broken promise by claiming circumstances had changed. Nothing has changed with the safety net."
The party people voted for is a fraud, they have no mandate for their secret, radical ideological agenda for clbutt war, when they have abandoned the promises and issues they did campaign on. They misled the whole nation.
"The blow-out in the estimated cost should have been foreseen before all those unequivocal promises were made. It's nonsense for Howard to suggest "since the election it has become apparent that the cost of it is going to be even greater than we thought at the time".
Blind Freddy and his dog warned of the cost blowouts and shonkonomics of their destroy Medicare Vapournet in the leadup to the election. Abbott and co just redoubled their lies that it was all costed.
And it is not as though the Government is going to be down to its last dollar of the surplus."
Indeed, when their wasteful and innefficient Private Health reFund scam fails to deter the greedy schemes from further price gouges, or stop people abandoning the ever more expensive funds, the tories just pump another billion or so in.
They are out to destroy what they see as socialized medicine and the best way to do it is pretend to be
"For years, Howard has reminded voters how Paul Keating put his tax cuts into law and then walked away from some of them. Howard has done precisely the same with the safety net."
Vapour N-E-T Net!
"Sometimes there is a case to justify ditching election promises. That you have won the election and will soon have the numbers to get almost anything through the Senate doesn't amount to such a case.
Howard got the decision out immediately so it would not cast a pall over the budget, which could be tricky enough to sell with the complex welfare package that will have plenty of losers."
The workers of this country are about to be severely f***ed and delivered up to the global multinationals as the rabid right wing ideologues unleash their wildest establishment fantasies.
"And what does Peter Costello have to say for himself? "The parameters of the Medicare Safety Net will not change," he said before the election. And then he targeted those very parameters to get some budget savings - a point to remember, perhaps, if it's Peter Costello, rather than John Howard leading the coalition in the 2007 election. No doubt he figures people will have forgotten by then. Or perhaps he and the PM think that punters who believe politicians can be taken for mugs. And, on the latest evidence, perhaps they can." - The Age 15-4-2005
