Senator Barnaby Joyce said today that in the past infrastructure spending was corralled towards such projects as the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Indian Pacific Railway, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Lake Argyle and the Ord River Irrigation Scheme but Mr Rudd has a new idea; he is going to take Australia to a new phase of economic development via ceiling insulation. It is really starting to become a little bit whoopy.
“First was the stimulus package before Christmas that apparently was going to create 75,000 jobs, devised overnight without any modelling, expending half our cash that was in the bank and now quite evidently a complete and utter flop with that ridiculous mantra ‘go hard, go early, go household’ ringing in people’s ears like some B Grade horror movie,” Senator Joyce said.
“Now, just when you think it couldn’t get any more banal we have an infrastructure package borrowing not so much from JJC Bradfield, but more from sundry forms of ceiling insulation promos from late night TV. This whole metaphor of armies of green people descending on houses throughout the nation, with ladders and ceiling batts, inspiring a stock market rally, carried on a wave of new consumer confidence, I’d have to admit is slightly unbelievable and verging on pathos.
“In reading the newspaper, the ceiling batt solution seems to be more appropriate as a headline around about the start of April than where we are now. In Mr Rudd’s morphing from economic conservative to his latest magnus opus in The Monthly, which in summary suggests ‘I don’t know what I am but I am not a neo Liberal’ should have us clearly bookmark this latest splash of brilliance for future analysis as to effect.”
Senator Joyce said: “Just like I have asked for Mr Rudd to be held to account for the efficacy in his so-called pre Christmas stimulus package, which became known around the traps apparently as the ‘blow it bonus’, we should now hold him to account for this latest revelation in macro economic policy. The nation’s investment will soon be sitting in the ceiling with the rats and the mice but the bill is in the mail.”