The government overestimated how much JobKeeper would cost by $60 billion (for reference, that’s just under a bajillion). What could it buy with this sudden state budget-sized windfall?
Off the top of our heads, it could:
- Chuck the 2 million or so workers — largely visa holders and casuals –excluded from the program on to it and still be $35 billion to the good.
- Pay Stuart Robert’s home internet bill 1,578,947 times.
- Make up some of the difference between the estimated $50 billion it was going to cost us to build that fleet of French-designed submarines and the estimated $225 billion it will end up costing us by 2080 (of which Defence Minister Linda Reynolds promised 60% would be spent in Australia).
- Build 10 gas pipelines from Western Australia to the east coast that will for sure help Australia’s COVID-19 recovery and for sure won’t benefit members of the National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission pushing for it.
- Pay for the Safe Schools anti-bullying program (remember that?) 7500 times, or the school chaplains program (remember THAT?) 242 times.
- Renew all the money cut from the ABC since the Coalition took power and still have just over $59 billion left over.
- Raise Newstart and the youth allowance by the $95 a week the Australian Council of Social Service is asking for, for the next 15 years.
- Pay for disloyal ministers’ flights for the next 1 million prime ministerial knifings.
- 600 more programs that can be used to buy
votesfemale change rooms for sports clubs that have no female members and other treats for Liberal Party friends.
Lets get the facts right, its not $60 billion of borrowed money, its part of the $130 billion of money the government printed, who has the capacity to loan Scomo $130 billion today when every nation is spending even more than us to keep their economies going, they are all printing money , Scomo or frydebrain never give the name of the mystical lender of all these billions because its bullshit debt and deficit crap to frighten the sheep/
Could also pay for a carbon capture plant and a bajillion 205 L drums to store it in. With possibly enough left over to pay for Angus’s/Australia oil reserve storage in the United States of Idiotocrasy, and the freight bill to get it over here.
Rather than spend it, why not point out that it – and it’s mate $70B – was not, is not, will not be borrowed from anyone.
It’s fiat money.
Really??? Charlie what a wicked sense of humor you have. You know the old saying many a word said in jest!!!!!. It is a pity is is wasted on our morally bankrupt, power seeking and self-serving PM aka the devout and caring ‘holy man’.
Actually the only joke that I can think of that tops yours is the Great Aussie Joke of about a year ago when a few ‘enlightened’ Australians voted to return this pile of garbage to power. And here was poor dumb me eagerly awaiting to take out the trash at the sound of the arrival of the garbage truck .
Another joke, we have all heard of ‘the man of steel’ what Morrison would like to be compared to and what we in fact have in reality a ‘man of sport sorry rort’ .