Fighting Fake News with Real 28/12/21; Polls, Frydenberg; Stuff

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There’s bad news for Scott Morrison, with polling predicting a heavy defeat for the prime minister at the upcoming federal election.The results of the latest quarterly Newspoll analysis show Labor has increased its advantage and the number of seats it would win from the Coalition has lifted from nine to 12 based on the state two-party preferred swings.

Source: Newspoll latest: Bitter blow for Prime Minister Scott Morison and the Liberal Party ahead of looming 2022 federal election | 7NEWS

  

Pointing fingers in the wrong direction

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When Peter Costello's News Paper The Age needs to print an article like this in Victoria you can rest assured that Josh Frydenberg is in trouble and big trouble in his electorate of Kooyong just as Greg Hunt is in Mornington. So much so Hunt has chosen to retire knowing he won't survive the next election. Frydenberg lost 16% support in Kooyong the last election and has tarnished himself further since by  loudly trumpeting the LNP bullshit that even Morrison can't about their Economic Management.

 

 On Frydenberg's watch Australia has sunk lower on every social and economic metric when compared with the rest of the OECD. As Treasurer he's lead the way to this Nations biggest economic bungee jump in history. Considering we began the dive when Abbott/Hockey took control at a steady pace Morrison/Frydenberg made it plunge.  When at the bottom he's taken credit for the natural recovery over which he had no control making the false claim we are the worlds most admired nation. When we won't bounce back to pre- LNP status of being the "best" in the world which Swan and the ALP took us to. Hockey, Morrison and Frydenberg have all steered us down down down hoping for a coal recovery.

 

 Frydenberg, currently has made the rich wealthier than they have ever been handing them the largest portion of GNP profit ever seen. Now that's working for "all of us" isn't it. A $50bn Job Keeper bonus was thrown in for good measure while cutting Social Welfare accounts. He's guided us to the largest casualization of Labor in the nations history with inflation at 3% and wage rise of 2% declaring "real wages have gone up" The only real wages he's talking about are those squeezed by the unions which he's been trying to kill while saying he's repaired unemployment. Universities only run on 10% tenured staff. He's helped de-skill the labor force so much so he's handed it over to carpetbaggers and allowing the import of skilled and unskilled workers forcing wages down and exploitation up. Hospitality Agriculture and other sectors have no staff because the wages they offer families can't exist on. If Frydenberg is popular it's only with the right-wing of the Liberal Party and not Australians. Will this article be declared a donation to the LNP and be costed as "free advertising"?

 

The Treasurer gained an edge over his federal peers on a key measure of personal popularity, with surveys showing he has a likeability rating of 3% as others slumped into negative territory.

Frydenberg leads the list of likeable politicians

 

 Frydenberg claims we are the envy of the world

Since the start of the century, federal government debt has climbed by more than 200 per cent – the largest increase of any major economy. More debt is to come.

Australian government debt has increased the most of any major economy this century, more than doubling over two decades, with the nation facing at least another 10 years of budget deficits.

Government and household data collated by the International Monetary Fund show federal government debt has grown by 221 per cent since 2000. At 44.1 per cent of GDP, federal debt is at its highest share of the economy since Sir Robert Menzies was prime minister in 1964. 

Australia is the only member of the G20, the world’s 20 largest economies, to have increased debt by more than 200 per cent over a period that includes the dot.com recession, the global financial crisis and now the coronavirus recession.

Australia drives up debt to Menzian levels with no end in sight

  

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Life in a recycled economy would be a lot cheaper. We wouldn’t need to buy nearly as much. So we wouldn’t need to work and earn nearly as much. We’d stop measuring our wellbeing by the Gross Domestic Product or even by the unemployment rate, because part of our wellbeing would be outside the production-consumption system of capitalism. Nor would we be relying on generosity or social solidarity. Most of us already have too much stuff — or we have the wrong stuff for this particular time in our lives. We just need a better system for reallocating stuff already produced that’s not wanted or not being used by the people who have it, and getting it to the people who do want it. Not only would this generate less waste and a cleaner environment. It might also make a dent in poverty by more systematically getting stuff to people who really need it. Stuff is now inundating us. It’s strangling the world. Could a recycled economy be part of the solution? What do you think?

Source: How to Overcome the Tyranny of Stuff | The Smirking Chimp