Dr Who has lost the plot!
Posted by clubwah on May 5, 2008
This weekend Brendan Nelson showed he is either fucking nuts, or a Labor plant sent in to finish off his Party’s good work – like storm troopers going in after the Luftwaffe’s Blitzkrieg to mop up any pockets of resistance.
Opposing a means test for the Baby Bonus, Dr Nelson, implied that the allowance was given as an appreciation of little babies, rather than a way to couple to have children to keep the birth rate up to counteract our ageing population – while having the added benefit of a vote-winning bribe to the middle classes.
He said ”It’s very, very important that Mr Rudd understands that every mother loves her baby and this should be an Australia where all babies are equal.”
So how will denying rich people the baby bonus change that?
Anyway, not all babies are equal Dr Nelson, and I haven’t seen you or any politician for that matter come out and say how unacceptable it is whenever a child is found dead because over-worked and underfunded social welfare services failed to read warning signs or simply were unable to do anything when they did.
I never saw you, when you were education minister, stick up for state schools and create a funding model that didn’t favour our most elite private schools. And I never saw you oppose a child care funding models that allows listed companies to make mega profits from early education, resulted in child care centres closing in inner city areas and ignored parents who could not find a child care place.
To say the means testing the baby bonus means the government does not value all babies is without a doubt the most stupid thing you will say during your short and disastrous time as opposition leader.
raydixon said
this should be an Australia where all babies are equal
Nelson’s right, it “should be” that way. And you’re right, it’s not that way. The Liberal Party’s notion of “equality” is that rich people shouldn’t be discriminated against on the basis of their wealth … because if you take too many concessions off them the gap between rich & poor might narrow from , oh about 1,000 kms to about 900, and that’s too close for comfort!
cosmicjester said
it was a bloody funny quote from Nelson, they played it twice on Insiders just to have another laugh at him. I guss he thought he had
a small victory with the “Rudd hates carers and the elderly” line with the bonus payments so he thought he could pull off a “Rudd hates babies” not realising how ridiculous he sounds.
He’s good for a giggle, i hope he stays leader for a while yet
clubwah said
They actually payed it three times on Insiders including right at the very end for good measure – I’ve never seen Barry Cassidy so moved to take the piss like that.
You’re right though, why am I calling for Nelson’s demise when it’s so much fun watching him he stupid?
cosmicjester said
haha 3 times? the libs will probablly have another senate enquiry into abc bias over that. he is such a spanner that nelson