Originally Posted by baggygreen

Kevin Rudd has announced a $48 billion package down here. It'll send us from having a $25B surplus last may to having a $25B deficit, in 12 months.

He's demanding that our opposition ratify the bill immediately. Why? votes, of course. Part of the bill gives $950 to every single person who paid tax last year who earnt less than $80,000. Thats most the workforce! Of course, now Rudd is claiming the opposition are robbing everyone of free cash they need to get by and the country needs to survive at all..

The problem is, the Bill mentions giving $25 million to housing for defence members. Thats cool, except the figure stated in the bill is actually $250 million. Typo. Whoops. Perhaps Rudd, and Barry, should take heed of the adage "haste makes waste".