As a rotten rule, the more abnoxious forceful crap-artist gets the gong...

One of Mr Abbott's first acts in a Coalition government would be to ask the Productivity Commission to examine how much it would cost to extend the childcare rebate for in-home care, such as nannies, in recognition that existing arrangements do not meet the needs of many families.

''We want as many women as can be to have challenging and demanding careers rather than having to fit a bit of work in around the edges,'' Mr Abbott said.

The Opposition Leader's childcare plans are likely to further inflame the argument within the Coalition about his spending priorities.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/now-for-abbotts-nanny-state-20120324-1vqwf.html#ixzz1q4YA7YL1

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Obviously this is a rock solid "examination" of "we want as many women as can be to have challenging and demanding careers"... in a non-core patronising adjustment of windbag policy to popularise Tony's crass popularism... Remember Abbott makes rock solid promises that he cannot keep.... The "WE" in Tony's premise is obviously all the Liberals (conservatives) who have done their darnest in the past till now to keep most (your) women barefoot and sweating in the kitchen... So as soon as Tony would be in charge of the loony bin, funding would "unfortunately" be impossible but the "intent would have been there"... Most of the Libs (conservatives) wives, who can afford nannies, usually go shopping... Oops this is below the belt, sorry...

Typical salesmanship of crook crockery... No returns.

Exerpt from Robert Manne... 

Words from GUS IN LARGE BOLD LETTERS

The first strategic error was Rudd's 2008 asylum seeker policy. Rudd might have retained the shell of the Pacific Solution - the threat of offshore processing for asylum seekers who arrived by boat - and humanised the policy by abandoning mandatory detention. A different policy would have benefited more refugees but would not have been open to political exploitation by a ruthless populist conservative like Tony Abbott.

NO MATTER WHAT LABOR DID, TONY WOULD HAVE MADE A RACKET — ALSO HELPED BY THE MEDIA.

The second strategic error concerned a failure of administrative attention to detail during the highly successful Rudd government stimulus program. The schools building program was vulnerable to criticism over cost blowouts in the public sectors in New South Wales and Victoria but was, on balance, popular. The home insulation program, however, did the government considerable harm because of its thoughtlessness and because its slovenly implementation cost several lives.

THE HARBOUR BRIDGE AND THE SNOWY RIVER SCHEME CONSTRUCTIONS COST FAR MORE LIVES (about one hundred combined) THAN THE HOME INSULATION SCHEME (about 4 possibly due to shonky employers). The SCHEME INSULATED ABOUT A MILLION HOME of which only 400 had problems. ON A COMMERCIAL BASIS, THE SCHEME WAS A SUCCESS. ONLY TONY AND THE MEDIA POOPOOED IT SENSELESSLY...

By 2010, then, because of the trouble facing its asylum seeker policy and its insulation stimulus program, the still highly popular Rudd government became for the first time somewhat vulnerable.

THE MEDIA WAS PUSHING HARD TO MAKE TONY A HERO IN UNDERPANTS. MEANWHILE, RUDD was a very hard person to deal within THE LABOR PARTY itself...

The third strategic error of the Rudd government was to trust the Coalition and to cold-shoulder the Greens regarding negotiations leading towards its most important piece of legislation - the emissions trading scheme. ... In considerable numbers left-leaning inner-city voters now defected, probably permanently, to the Greens.

RUDD TRUSTED TONY ABBOTT. GILLARD DOES NOT... ABBOTT IS A LITTLE SHIT WHO USES POPULISM AS THE BACKBONE OF HIS NON-EXISTANT OR MYOPIC OR INFLATED POLICIES...

The fourth strategic error followed close upon the climate change debacle. Badly stung, Rudd now attempted to prove that he did indeed believe in something, by announcing his government's commitment to the Ken Henry committee's suggestion of a resource rent mining tax. The error here was not with the decision but with the absence of political nous at the moment of announcement. ... He underestimated the ideological enmity of the Murdoch press, especially The Australian. And he overestimated the loyalty of his party.

NO-ONE UNDERESTIMATES THE MURDOCH PRESS. THE PRESS CAN DO WHATEVER IT LIKES AND THE PRESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN BENT TOWARDS PROMOTING ABBOTT AND HIS BUDGIES, THE COMMERCIAL MEDIA IS ABOUT 80/20 IN FAVOUR OF ABBOTT. THE ABC IS ABOUT 60/40 IN FAVOUR OF ABBOTT, NOT SO MUCH BECAUSE THE ABC LOVES ABBOTT BUT IT FEARS TO APPEAR BIASED TOWARDS LABOR, SO IT ALWAYS OVER-COMPENSATES... RUDD SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE "STANK" WITHIN HIS OWN RANKS....

The fifth strategic error of the contemporary federal Labor Party was probably the most important. By June 2010, although its reputation had been badly dented inside what might be called the political nation, the Rudd government still had not lost the trust of the electorate. ...

THE RUDD GOVERNMENT WAS GOING TO LOSE THE NEXT ELECTION NO MATTER WHAT.

The sixth strategic error is the one I find most difficult to explain. Prime Minister Gillard now signed an agreement with Greens for the creation of a parliamentary committee to broker the outlines of a carbon tax/emissions trading scheme. Given the problems this created, Gillard's thinking is almost impossible to fathom. Gillard was not only introducing a new tax whose absolutely real necessity she was incapable of explaining. She was also a "liar".

WHO CARES?... JULIA KNEW AND SHE KNOWS THAT a) THE PLANET NEEDS A GOVERNMENTAL MECHANISM TO DEAL WITH CARBON EMISSIONS AND b) THE ONLY WAY SHE COULD DO IT WAS WITH THE GREENS. SHE WOULD HAVE PLACED THE ETS BACK ON THE AGENDA HAD SHE GOT THE NUMBERS. THAT SHE RENEGED ON HER PLEDGE OF "NO CARBON TAX" BEFORE THE ELECTIONS WAS ONLY DUE TO THE MINORITY GOVERNMENT. GILLARD SAW IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY, RATHER THAN A HINDRANCE, TO proceed with A PROPER CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY. TONY ABBOTT DOES NOT BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS INDUCED BY HUMANS...

THINK OF THE CARBON TAX AS AN INSURANCE PREMIUM... ALBEIT STILL VERY LOW COMPARED TO WHAT WE'LL HAVE TO PAY IN THE FUTURE. AT LEAST AUSTRALIA HAS A CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION SCHEME.

Labor's seventh strategic blunder came earlier this year. It was always inevitable that Kevin Rudd at some stage would make an attempt to regain the leadership of the Labor Party. 

THE "RETURN"OF KEVIN WAS NOT "INEVITABLE"... KEVIN HAD TO PUT A SOCK ON HIS D..K OR TAKE A COLD SHOWER. BUT KEVIN WAS SPURNED BY A DECIDEDLY TROUBLE-MAKER MEDIA TO BELIEVE IN THE INFLATED VALUE OF HIS WORTH within the Labor party. HAD HE BEEN "REINSTATED" IT WOULD HAVE SOON BE PROVEN THE BIGGEST BLUNDER THE PARTY WOULD HAVE MADE... The government would have been forced into going to an EARLY election and ALL THE GOOD PROGRAMS IN MOTION WOULD HAVE BITTEN THE DUST in the ensuing fracas. 

There are grave structural weaknesses within the contemporary federal Labor Party. As a consequence of these blunders, Tony Abbott now seems certain to be Prime Minister before the end of 2013.

DO WE DESERVE TONY, THE HYPOCRITICAL IDIOT, AS PM?.. AS A NATION OF IDIOTS WE MIGHT, BUT I CERTAINLY DON'T... AND MANY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE DON'T EITHER.

ERGO SUM, AUSTRALIA MUST BE RUNNING OUT OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IF TONY GETS THE GONG....

One of the major weakness of the Labor Party resides in the fact that the new generations have been "liberated"... The worship of unencumbered indivdualism takes precedence over social responsibilities and issues. Most of the new generations have not much idea how a society works as long as they have a twitting phone...  For the fluttering individualists, the rite wing agenda seems more palatable as the champion of "free market" and "free enterprise", with no consideration of the social structure, its equity and integrity...

The MEDIA (via its biased "journos" and shock-jocks) IS more OFTEN than not PROMOTING THE DEGRADATION of the social conscience, by simply vicariously using rare events as if it was the common occurence, thus promoting false impression of rorts, of easy dosh, of incompetence, including promoting falsehoods about the GLOBAL WARMING reality.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3922692.html?WT.svl=theDrum