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Out of context: Reply #10
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I came across a reasonably succinct assessment from a Guardian user of the sitting government's budget failures that led to the LNP's poor election results:
"Essential Report’s polling of the 2016 Budget suggested that it was seen in class warfare terms. While the public may not regard it with the fury attracted by the 2014 Budget, they do see it as an expression of the government's over-riding values. It is perceived by the public as neither fair nor balanced, as favouring business over workers, not doing enough to address multinational tax avoidance, nor a coherent economic plan, nor the budget Australia needs.
Indeed. But recall its pedigree. It was to serve their interests that Abbott and Hockey’s Misgovernment was put there, Turnbull is accepted for the moment, and all are groomed and promoted, by transnational capitalism and Citizen Murdock. They are the local front-men for the open and brutal class warfare by the privileged against the non-rich that is now far more widespread than in Thatcher’s time, as the ordinary people of the U.S. and Europe - or the 2014 Budget here - can bear witness.
Once in office the Noalition wanted to create large Budget deficits to exploit the Debt-and-Deficit hysteria it manufactured to help win power. Abbott and Hockey therefore did their best to increase (RBA contribution and Direct Action) and to exaggerate deficits (set to be larger than Labor's). What – amongst so many other things - they did not anticipate was the anger with which the brutality of the 2014 Budget was received. It forced the focus away from the mainstream media favourite "Labor's fiscal deception" onto the Noalition's plans despite the best efforts of "The Australian" and its mainstream media lackeys to promote Abbott and the Noalition. Recall the determined silence by the mainstream media and political figures regarding Abbott's broken promises and hypocrisies.
Treasurer for Stopping the Social Services Morrison’s 2016 Budget sought to do much the same as abbott’s brutal 2014 Budget. Hence its unpopularity."
That covers most of it for me, I think.