The labor party was the worst fucking joke in the history of Australian politics. They could barely run themselves for 4 minutes let Alone run a country for 4 years. They received the lowest number of votes in 100 years which implies people who used to vote labor no longer have faith in their ability to run the country. (Which implies they instantly became idiots, homophobes, racists) Everyone's biggest concern is the fact that we won't have the NBN(usually listed first on most lists of what the evil liberals are ruining) and not that they're cutting funding from other areas. Not sure if that makes labor supporters selfish or short sighted. I bet half of the people who voted labor expect the sky to fall any minute.
Nice hyperbole. Got any facts to back that up?
Here are some of Labor's achievements, just off the top of my head by the way so there are many more that I've forgotten for the moment, which would suggest that they were somewhat capable of running a country:
1) Kept us out of a recession while most of the rest of the world was struggling. The IMF said multiple times that we were one of the strongest economies in the world. Various economists have praised the strength of our economy through the GFC. Wayne Swan was named the best Treasurer in the world.
Tony Abbott himself said that he is optimistic about the economy, a day after his years of campaigning about how fucked we all are, the slimy little prick. You are frankly delusional and yes, idiotic, if you think Labor didn't play a very significant role in that. Big fucking deal, we have a comparatively small debt relative to our GDP and most economists would agree stimulus and spending is the best course of action in a recession.
2) Increasing the superannuation guarantee to 12% - which Tones wants to scrap. We have the best superannuation system in the world and he wants to tear all of that down. Go ask pensioners who didn't have superannuation how they're doing surviving on the Aged Pension. Spoiler alert: not well. We have several billions of $ (can't remember exact number) of superannuation savings which play a huge role in investing in infrastructure as well.
3) Banking reforms. Removing the exit fee so you can switch your mortgage to a better bank product without having to pay out the nose for it (along with other reforms like compulsory simple Product Disclosure Statements so that banks can't foist enormous booklets with over-complex wording to confuse you).
4) Investigating tax evasion by multinational corporations. I don't know about you but I'm pretty sick of massive companies like Apple paying $100k tax per year.
5) NDIS. You can bang on all you want about it being bipartisan but Labor was the one who instigated it.
6) Carbon pricing scheme, which a) reduced emissions (NB: we are the HIGHEST EMITTERS OF CARBON POLLUTION ON A PER CAPITA BASIS), b) included the Clean Energy Finance Corporation which was going to provide funding for research into green energies, and which dearest Tones is going to scrap now so have fun with more polluting industries!
7) Mining tax. In typical hypocritical fashion, the LNP has complained that it will discourage mining companies from investing in Australia because the tax is too high while also complaining that it's not raising enough revenue. Which one is it, Libtards? You can't have both. We will not be a resource economy forever, we need to move to a service economy, but in the meantime what the hell is so wrong about taxing companies for taking Australia's FINITE resources? And don't give me that bullshit about it impacting negatively on the economy, the IMF and most economists disagree and I think they know more than you do.
8 ) Corporate governance reforms. Directors and CEOs no longer get a free meal ticket to millions of dollars of bonuses per year while the company doesn't perform accordingly. Shareholders get far more power in getting rid of useless CEOs.
9) NBN, good luck competing in an increasingly technological world now.
I'd say more but I have to go out now. tl;dr put up some facts or shut up.
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