It’s absurd but they’ve brought it back. You would think that the Labor Party had enough on their plate this week with the absolute farce, the Leyland P76 of policies, the insulation program. Labor is floundering around going from crisis to crisis. And now they’ve swum back into the middle of the stream to grab the CPRS as a flotation device. They just had to re-introduce the CPRS in the Senate, after all, it’s “the greatest moral issue of our time”. I thought it might have been AIDS infection, starvation, tyranny, nuclear war, but no, it was Labor’s CPRS. Please forgive Australia if we don’t take you seriously.
Do you need another statement of the economic catastrophe, the complete lack of realty that the Labor Party management has become? The ETS has devolved from the “greatest moral issue of our time”, to a form of ritualistic self flagellation by Mr Rudd in front of the nations cameras to the beat of Mr Garrett’s drum. How could people believe that a new tax administered from Mr Rudd and Ms Wong’s office will cool the planet, when they can’t even get fluffy stuff into the ceiling without creating a national crisis? Who in their right mind would give the keys to a major reconfiguration of our economy to the same crowd that brought us the rolling Greek tragedy of Peter Garrett and the ceiling insulation program?
So the Labor Party has bowled us the full volley at 40 kilometres per hour, and here it goes as we hit it out of the ground. Not only do I doubt their economic capacity, I doubt their political capacity. Who could possibly be advising them that they could be so naïve as to misread the Australian polls to reintroduce what is a farcical poisonous piece of pathos?
Senator Joyce said that “Over 20,000 people have signed an on-line petition on my website against the bill, which makes up part of 40,000 pieces of correspondence against this issue. Letters, faxes, letters to the editor, phone calls, and talkback back meltdown expressing the Australian people’s absolute opposition to this new tax. Which one did Mr Rudd miss? This overwhelming sentiment is a clear vote of confidence in the stand that was led against this iniquitous and unnecessary tax on everything we do”.
The Bill was debated and rejected by the Senate twice last year. As much as it galls me I have to call on the people to muster all the forces at their disposal to reject the proposition that Mr Rudd can cool the planet from Penny Wong’s office. I know that I’m going out on a limb here, but those who think he can do it, vote for it, for those who don’t believe that Mr Rudd can single handedly from his office cool the planet, vote against it.
Let’s be serious, Mr Rudd’s plan is nothing more than a dirty little tax grab to prop up his overwhelming debt. The Coalition has produced a much better incentive based direct action scheme that will see industry work to produce greater benefits in the long term without making all poorer by the process.
The Coalition has provided a fixed cost alternative that actually gives people the incentive to move in a path that produces an outcome. Just like the change to sulphur content in fuel, it is direct action. The only action that provides an outcome is direct action. President Obama sees this but Mr Rudd knows better .We are mere passengers on Mr Rudd’s grand journey to a place yet to be determined until the next 2020 summit.