Funny curses
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Mr KEATING» (Treasurer)(3.18) —'We have just had a motion moved by the shadow Treasurer, the honourable member for Wentworth (Dr Hewson), who could not sustain the debate. It was the limpest performance I have ever seen. Seven minutes into the speech he could not sustain it. It was like being flogged with a warm lettuce. It was like being mauled by a dead sheep. He had the hide to ask us where our fiscal responsibility was.
This is a government which has taken a 7 per cent deficit in the public sector borrowing requirement and turned it into a surplus of 1 1/4 per cent and cut outlays by 7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). And the honourable member for Wentworth has the gall to ask us where our fiscal responsibility is. Those opposite went to the last election with their former Leader offering $7.8 billion worth of unfunded tax cuts and we went with a $400m package which was fully paid for. And the honourable member asks us where our fiscal responsibility is. Last week he had the gall to say that the Opposition would have a fiscal policy which was lower than ours as a proportion of GDP; that is, absconding with all our work over seven years-all those months in the Expenditure Review Committee meetings cutting down public outlays from nearly 31 per cent of GDP to 23 per cent, and copping the Opposition's criticism for nearly every one of them, one after the other. Finally, we bring down a Budget with outlays to GDP just above 22 per cent in a year or two, and those opposite say they will knock $140m off it and that it is all theirs. We have built the structure of fiscal policy. As I said, it is like building the Empire State Building and those opposite us jumping into the lift, rushing to the top, putting a brick on top and saying, `Look what I have built'. It is a joke that they talk about fiscal responsibility.'
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You have it hidden somehwhere
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noone tekn.
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As mad as a bucket (or basket) of frogs.
I always liked that one; I still do. I don't know why. When you examine it closely, it doesn't seem to mean much. <shrug>
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X is so full of that if you extracted it all, there would be very little left.
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Sorry - as soon as I typed the post I got it. Pity one cannot delete posts herePattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 23rd, 2021, 11:00 amX is so full of that if you extracted it all, there would be very little left.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 23rd, 2021, 10:59 amAs mad as a bucket (or basket) of frogs.
I always liked that one; I still do. I don't know why. When you examine it closely, it doesn't seem to mean much. <shrug>
Perhaps the water in the bucket is gradually reaching boiling point, and the frogs are mad as in ANGRY, at the humans who have put them in this predicament.
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