You don’t borrow money to build a tennis court whilst there are untreated white ants in your house. You fix the problem and you don’t waste money on an extravagance. The Labor party’s desire to continue on with the NBN, whilst Queensland Rail, as just one example of many, tells us it will take months to get the lines between Emerald and Rockhampton up and running is economically libellous in its negligence. We have to make sure our major export is going full steam ahead and that the agricultural products are arriving quickly back on the shelves if we have any long term hope of getting on top of these problems.

 

Then there are others, such as Mr Windsor, saying we shouldn’t worry about surpluses because that is just something created by “politicians”. Well, another thing that has been created by “politicians” is the NBN and how you can believe that downloading movies faster is better than getting the economy back up and running is beyond me. If we don’t get a surplus, then we cannot start to pay back the debt. The gross debt is currently $178 billion.

 

If we had not put all the money up against the wall with profligate ideas such as ceiling insulation, school halls and $900 cheques for imported electrical goods, we might actually have some money put aside for a rainy day, as the old and very wise saying goes. However, we are run by a crowd who waste money, and now they are desperately scratching around so that we can get the basic fundamentals of our economy up and running again.

 

Here we are in the midst of a national calamity, which is the floods and, so help me, they are going to borrow the money and put it on the credit card to build a telephone network when we already have a telephone network. At this point in time, it is probably one of the only things still working to near its full capacity.