This is the term that comes to mind when describing most of the Rudd government’s achievements thus far.
According to Wikipedia:
In other words, Rudd is pretending to do something when really he is doing nothing. Take a gander at his latest policy initiatives.
Fuel Watch – He has had to retreat after the revelation that several government agencies oppose the idea and believe it will actually raise the price of fuel. This will not be good for the working families he claims to be assisting. He even tried to make out that the idea came from the opposition when they were in government. I don’t know whether that is true or not, but it’s not a good idea to be stealing ideas from the previous government, unpopular ones at that.
Binge Drinking – Originally I was a fan of the move to tax ‘alcopops’ because I assumed further action would come from it. But it seems now that that was his big move to tackle binge drinking. Apparently evidence has found a decrease in the sale of ‘alcopops’ and a relative increase in other forms of alcohol. So the effect of the tax is negligible when surely a change to trading hours would have a greater affect.
Inflation – Their inaugural budget was supposed to tackle this. Catchphrases like “tough but fair” and “responsible” were spat out ad nausiem by Rudd and treasurer Wayne Swan. Instead their budget still included a heck of a lot of spending. The means testing was also ‘smoke and mirrors’ when some of these welfare programs could have been turfed completely. Now that would have been tough but fair.
20/20 Summit – Purely a ‘gabfest’ resulting in not much other than Mr Rudd gaining a new friend in Cate Blanchett. The costs to the taxpayers that were announced this week were a bit off putting also.
Kevin Rudd was elected on the premise of new leadership and change. But instead we have the same old Labor government and no real change, and it seems the public service who are meant to be working for him are growing tired of him.
According to Wikipedia:
Smoke and mirrors is a metaphor for a deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanation or description. The source of the name is based on magicians' illusions, where magicians make objects appear or disappear by extending or retracting mirrors amid a confusing burst of smoke.
In other words, Rudd is pretending to do something when really he is doing nothing. Take a gander at his latest policy initiatives.
Fuel Watch – He has had to retreat after the revelation that several government agencies oppose the idea and believe it will actually raise the price of fuel. This will not be good for the working families he claims to be assisting. He even tried to make out that the idea came from the opposition when they were in government. I don’t know whether that is true or not, but it’s not a good idea to be stealing ideas from the previous government, unpopular ones at that.
Binge Drinking – Originally I was a fan of the move to tax ‘alcopops’ because I assumed further action would come from it. But it seems now that that was his big move to tackle binge drinking. Apparently evidence has found a decrease in the sale of ‘alcopops’ and a relative increase in other forms of alcohol. So the effect of the tax is negligible when surely a change to trading hours would have a greater affect.
Inflation – Their inaugural budget was supposed to tackle this. Catchphrases like “tough but fair” and “responsible” were spat out ad nausiem by Rudd and treasurer Wayne Swan. Instead their budget still included a heck of a lot of spending. The means testing was also ‘smoke and mirrors’ when some of these welfare programs could have been turfed completely. Now that would have been tough but fair.
20/20 Summit – Purely a ‘gabfest’ resulting in not much other than Mr Rudd gaining a new friend in Cate Blanchett. The costs to the taxpayers that were announced this week were a bit off putting also.
Kevin Rudd was elected on the premise of new leadership and change. But instead we have the same old Labor government and no real change, and it seems the public service who are meant to be working for him are growing tired of him.
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Surely a teetotaller christian like you has something nice to say about Kevin's blitz on alcohol !?
I was happy with his first step, expecting more to follow. So it's hardly a blitz. Now it appears that his first step isn't making any affect on teen binge drinking at all.
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