The Three Worst Things The Liberals Did Yesterday (97) by Bob Ellis Hunt said he would have an inquiry into an Emissions Trading Scheme but never, never enact one. It ‘wouldn’t hurt’ to have the inquiry, he said, though it would waste twenty million that might be spent on, say, the children of dead soldiers, or preventing Alzheimers. A deal was done by which pollution would be reduced by giving money to polluters and asking them nicely to reduce their emissions, please, but exacting no penalty if they didn’t. Nor was a goal proclaimed of how much less pollution there would be by 2020, not even Rudd’s paltry five percent. Palmer, a rich coal miner, negotiated this, and Abbott, an apocalyptic believer in Christ’s fiery return, agreed to it. The only global warming he believed in was when Jesus came back and the earth burned. Ipsos showed the Liberals on 44 and losing, in Victoria, seven seats. This was before Abbott put up the price of petrol and bewhispered a larger GST, thus losing, probably, another one percent and four more seats. Napthine shouted down the phone at Abbott, who winked at Credln unflummoxed. It was likely that in the real world a flow-on from the Victorian trouncing, now pretty certain, would lose his party New South Wales and Queensland, but he wasn’t much aware of the real world any more. She looked at him levelly, winked back, and made him his special tea. Pyne in Question Time claimed his Costly Degrees Initiative was a good idea though the nation hated it. Far too many adolescents were going to university, he screeched, when they could be cleaning toilets or packing supermarket shelves or whoring themselves to earn money for their Ice and Crack Cocaine, and this shocking, shocking imbalance must stop. The higher fees, he reasoned, would bring the numbers down, especially of women, who had no business in university when round-the-clock nappy-changing was a pure and godly alternative, and increase the numbers of dumb rich boys, like himself, on Graduation Day, throwing up their hats beaming, and spraying their doting mothers with champagne. At the next Question Time, faced with figures that showed a female student of agricultural medicine would end up owing four hundred and thirty thousand dollars for her degree, he said the figure was ‘much lower than that’. Abbott when asked how much of the reward to polluters would go to Clive Palmer wouldn’t say. No more than a hundred million, probably. He seemed unaware what corruption meant, but he would no doubt be ‘making enquiries’. Morgan showed 70 percent of Australians favoured, and 23 percent disfavoured, sending Australian doctors and nurses to quench Ebola in Africa. Hunt said he would do no such thing: he would protect good Australians from their noblest instincts, and do what he could, by this ‘passionate neglect’, to spread this pandemic through the known world, and arrest everyone who came to Australia with it. Abbott could not say what the details of his Direct Action plan were, nor if it would bring down our emissions by five, two or one percent. But he swore he would spend no more money on it. The money was for the polluting capitalists, he said, and they wouldn’t get any more, lest it seem he were in a corrupt relationship with them. If, however, they refused to do it, they wouldn’t get any punishment either. That was how principled he was. And so concluded another day of the worst free-elected government in the history of Democracy, since its foundation in Iceland in AD 934. ellistabletalk/2014/10/30/the-three-worst-things-the-liberals-did-yesterday-97/
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