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Save Us from a Drowning Socialist

Albo throwing money down the gurgler to try and save his government.

That’s our money he’s throwing away. The Good Oil. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

God save any country from a socialist government facing defeat at the ballot box. Because it’s about to be plunged even further in a debt mire, in a futile effort to save the incumbent’s hide. Left-wing politicians spend other people’s money: it’s what they do. All they do.

And they ramp it way up when they’re in their political death throes.

Which is precisely the playbook that the already big-spending Albanese socialist-left government is defaulting to as its pre-election poll numbers sink ever lower.

Labor has ramped up its spending on local projects in a bid to sway voters in some of the toughest battlegrounds at the federal election, pledging more than $1.2 billion this month amid a political row with the Coalition over spending cuts.

Big surprise: the government is showering other people’s money in the places it’s desperate to try and cling on to, with the opposition fast gaining ground in battleground seats.

The promises have swamped the Coalition’s spending plans in some of the key electorates that will shape the election as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton limits local pledges and focuses instead on national policies such as his proposal for nuclear power stations.

The local spending ranges from a Labor pledge to fund a new aquatic centre in Perth to a Liberal promise to fix lights at a suburban cricket field in Melbourne, as well as national plans to upgrade highways or build more homes.

The promises, based on a tally of pledges from both major parties as they campaign in key seats, have triggered concerns about the way federal grants are decided after years of dispute about whether the major parties are using taxpayer funds to “buy” votes in target seats.

‘Dispute’? From whom? Who seriously doubts that that is exactly what they’re doing?

The local campaigns come as Treasurer Jim Chalmers moves to defend the government over the rising cost of living by arguing that households would be $7200 worse off if the Coalition was in power.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised $12.7 million for a theatre and arts centre in Launceston in the seat of Bass, $5 million for Nowra housing projects in Gilmore and $6 million for the “living city” project in Devonport, in the marginal seat of Braddon.

Roll out the pork barrel.

“The Albanese government has spent money like drunken sailors,” Dutton said on Sunday when discussing Senator Jacinta Nampajinpa Price’s new “government efficiency” portfolio.

Well, that’s not fair. Drunken sailors at least spend their own money. Money they worked hard and honestly to acquire. None of those apply to the government.

Albanese is responding by warning that Coalition spending cuts would put services at risk and arguing that Dutton would commit $331 billion over 25 years – an estimate from Coalition policy papers – to building nuclear power stations.

As opposed to the trillions Labor’s lunatic ‘Net Zero’ obsession will cost Australia...
Then there’s the non-stop pandering to the bennie class.

The Albanese government is spending $26 billion more on aged care, disability, medicines and childcare than it first budgeted three years ago as Labor prepares to launch an unofficial election campaign focused on those key areas.

Meanwhile, the uncontrollable monster created by previous socialist Labor PM Julia Gillard, the NDIS, continues to grow at an exponential rate. It’s already one of the biggest Gargantuas gorging at the taxpayer-funded trough. In fact, welfare is the single biggest item of government spending.

And Albo’s only just getting started. No amount of other people’s money is clearly too much to keep this clown in the style to which he’s become accustomed.


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