John Linton
.....or has he got away with so much 'Imperium' over the past year courtesy of the abject stupidity of the Australian electorate he believes he say anything he feels like saying at any time?
How can that self important, smirking piece of cr** think he can get away with this:
http://livenews.com.au/articles/2008/12/21/Govt_aims_to_halve_number_of_homeless
nonsensical piece of sheer madness?
Did he just recycle this arrant stupidity by that other grandstanding idiot Hawke:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Hawke-regrets-child-poverty-comment/2007/06/16/1181414583336.html
Anyone notice the exact similarities?
A pointless and extraordinarily stupid 'promise' the result of which was:
"Mr Hawke's words returned to haunt him as his pledge was
impossible to keep. About 580,000 Australian children lived in poverty in 1987,
welfare groups said. Today (June 2007) at least 13 per cent of children, or
730,000 people, were poor, said Janet Stanley, spokeswoman for the
Brotherhood of St Laurence."
Like Krudd's crazy distribution of $A10.2 billion of cash handouts last week he will almost certainly be forced to follow at some time in the future in Hawke's footsteps with his own admission that:
"Mr Hawke said his government gave more money to low-income
families, but instead of spending it on their kids, some "p...ed it
up against the wall".
Just as uber-idiot Hawke sounded like either a lunatic or a moron in making such a ridiculous claim, Krudd sounds even more stupid.You can't 'fix' a problem such as "homelessness" by building low cost housing (even if you had the money) as the causes of homelessness are hugely varied and as for stating a number.......FGS .....who would know what that number will be in 11 years time and who will know what on Earth our society will look like even in 12 months time as the current tsunami of financial ruin that is beginning to engulf the world finally reaches as far as Australia.
A columnist, of some realistic credentials made the point in the London times yesterday that the insane Mugabe's printing of money causing the currency to become worthless and the shelves in every shop to be bare of any food or clothing goods has eerie echoes in the governments of the USA, the UK and the EU all printing currency to "solve the problems of too much debt". It didn't work for the Weimar Republic, it didn't work for Argentina and it's not working for Zimbabwe - why Krudd or any other head of government anywhere else in the world thinks it can work for them is bemusing.
Krudd actions and statements over the past three months show that he now thinks of himself as more somewhere between a president and a 'benign' dictator in his hijacking of all portfolios within the democratic government of Australia and is governing the country via a series of un-costed and clearly not even given much thought pronouncements on an ever widening range of "programs" that involve spending money that can only exist by printing it. I doubt whether even his 'minders' have an accurate count of what he has promised to spend.
And while I'm on the subject of 'Imperium', plagiarism and just plain dishonesty - in Krudd's meaningless "addresses to the troops in Afghanistan" how is he allowed to steal quotes from Hollywood movies without ascribing them - or does that just illustrate that he communicates in simplistic cliches as being the best method of dealing with the simpletons who voted for him. I'm referring to his solemn pronouncement:
"When things are tough, we Australians are at our very best"
Great words - pity they were taken straight from the end of the Hollywood Movie 'Starman' and spoken by the alien played by Jeff Bridges to the young SETI agent played by Charles Martin Smith who was trying to prevent him returning to his home:
"Shall I tell you what I admire most about your civilisation? ....You are at your very best when things are at their very worst".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(film)
Krudd has been scattering money and spending commitments around as if there was a never ending supply - and this is being done before ANYONE knows just how bad the situation in Australia will become next year and when and where it will manifest itself most drastically. Krudd is running through the surpluses and 'future funds' bequeathed to him by 11 years of responsible government in less than 15 months and then there will be nothing left to deal with whatever is the result of the current overseas events when they start to be felt in Australia by mid 2009. It's Whitlam all over again.
Probably like most Australians - I see very little evidence of the GFC affecting any part of my business or social life right now. It would be very foolish to think things will stay this way.
Krudd, meanwhile, continues with his Nero impression - he is burning (bankrupting) the current Australia to make way for his personal 'grand vision' of a 'new' Australia - unlike that megalomaniac of 2,000 years or so ago - he has no talent for playing a stringed instrument to make the analogy complete.