"they know that Wayne Swan is the best treasurer Australia has...

"they know that Wayne Swan is the best treasurer Australia has ever had...so they are spruiking a Costello comeback....but it will never work."

This one belongs in the Humour thread. Up to last week:
. 4 x Budgets and the 4 x biggest deficits the country has suffered
. 2011/12 forecast blown out from $20 Billion in the red to $44 Billion - in just 11 months. Either Wayne Duck was incompetent or he fudged the figures.

This year he's shifted massive expenditure off-Budget claiming its investment, not expenditure. The NBN - an investment? Yeah, right. He's moved forward expenditure to this year, made outlandish assumptions on revenue streams from his new taxes. If a public company presented accounts this way, someone would go to jail.

The Budget doesn't even mention the $200 Billion plus debt,being serviced at $100 Million per day, that Labor wants to increase to $300 Billion. The handouts to welfare beneficiaries are being paid for with borrowed money!

Duck is bringing the country to its knees. He'll have a hell of a task finding a decent job when he's tossed out in the Queensland clean sweep next election.