Menzies House Publisher Tim Andrews argues that this Saturday, Kevin Rudd has got to go:
Every day this week I’ve been getting the same sort of emails: “Saturday won’t matter, they’re all the same, nothing will change, why should I bother”.
This argument is flat out wrong and you should reject it for one simple reason:
The current Federal Government has advanced the greatest assault on individual freedoms and sound economic management we have seen in over three decades.
As you would be well aware, I have frequently criticised Tony Abbot some of his plans, such as PPL and his desire to keep the Renewable Energy Target. I hold grave concerns about his ability to keep some big government influences in check, and his economic plans leave much to be desired. But any criticism I have of the opposition is dwarfed by the gigantic catastrophe that the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government has proven to be.
Irrespective of what you think about Tony Abbott, there can be no doubt about one thing: This government has got to go.
Here’s why:
Firstly, the Rudd Government’s decision to throw $80 billion down the toilet with a “stimulus package” that
did nothing more than destroy our budget finances, and leave us with a mountain of debt was an act of fiscal vandalism unmatched in recent history.

When Kevin came into office promising to be an ‘economic conservative’, we had a budget surplus. In just one year, this became a
$27 billion deficit. In two years, it reached a
mind-blowing $60 billion. Our national debt is now on track to reach a
staggering $300 billion, and we will be
paying $190 million in interest every single week.
Even The Australian Treasury and the Parliamentary Budget Offices have now admitted that the deficit is structural, unsustainable, and the
result of massive over-spending. Yes, as Kevin Rudd keeps saying, it could be worse, but do we
really want to keep comparing ourselves to Greece?
And don’t even get me started on the job-killing carbon tax… But Kevin Rudd’s budget bungling is just the tip of the iceberg.

By dragging our industrial relations system back to the 1960’s, we have had
plummeting international competitiveness, small business closures up 48%, and
record numbers of crippling strikes across Australia, while working days lost,
which had been trending downwards for 15 years, shot up fivefold. At the same time, the number of people without jobs has gone up 222,000 between 2007 and 2013, and the government has resorted to classifying
350,000 people receiving unemployment benefits as “non-jobseekers” so that they won’t show up in the official count.
I am, of course, just beginning to list the cascade of failures, bumbling incompetence, and attacks on liberty by the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government – there is a while library that could be filled if I was to list them all.
But whichever party you choose to put a 1 next to, under no circumstances should Labor (or – heaven forbid – the Greens) get your preferences before the coalition (and if you are voting above the line in the senate, look carefully at who your chosen party is giving it’s preferences to: Bob Katter, for example, is supporting
Labor and the Greens)
Make no mistake, come Sunday, if Tony Abbott gets elected, I will be doing everything I can to make sure that he too does the right thing! Menzies House& the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance are firmly non-partisan, and if Tony Abbott was to do the same thing, we would be just as critical.
But right now – Saturday is the priority: Australia just can’t afford another term of Labor.
In 1993, one week out of the election, everyone thought John Hewson would win. In 1999 everyone was convinced Jeff Kennett would easily be re-elected. We can take nothing for granted. This Saturday, make your vote count.
Tim Andrews is Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance, and Publisher of Menzies House.
What a crying shame all the leibor "rusted ons" will not read this.
Posted by: Deejay | September 5, 2013 at 07:54 PM