cultana
12th June 2010, 01:52 AM
OK I may have put this one in the wrong spot or its a tad too sensitive but may need looking at as it is your money and debt.
Fuel watch
Grocery watch
Australian Business Investment Partnership AKA Rudd bank
The proposal is that the Government and the four leading banks set up a company (with $2 billion of our money and $500 million each from the banks) to lend to commercial property ventures hit by the withdrawal of foreign lenders from Australia.
Ruddbank - or the Australian Business Investment Partnership, as the Government prefers it to be called - would be a lender of last resort. The ventures would have to be "otherwise viable", we are assured.
But if there were a lot of them the company would also be able to borrow up to $26 billion, guaranteed by the federal Government, on top of the initial $4 billion injection.
With potentially $28 billion in taxpayers' money at stake, the Senate, wisely, decided to take a closer look.
Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program.
Homes for the homeless/social housing funds diverted to the BER $750 mill
Was the federal government rash when it promised a year ago that it would cut the nation's homeless queues in half by 2020?
Building the education reform (BER)
Computers for every school kid
Not too sure if this is part of the BER or a separate distraction in its own right
Home Insulation Scheme
Green Loans
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)/Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
The Resource Super Profit Tax, (RSPT)
This one is still running nicely as per defined spin.
Also just for the record the 2 lots of cash hand outs, pensioners et al and the second one of $900.
Yes you guessed it, I missed out on both.
It is just a small list spanning 3 years. I hope I did not miss something but heck we paid for all this and I hope you got your moneys worth back.
Now I unfortunately am not suggesting much here but I can defiantly say we pay for politicians and their labour of love for our country and simply both sides of the fence seem to fail the test badly.
Can we have our money back?
Fuel watch
Grocery watch
Australian Business Investment Partnership AKA Rudd bank
The proposal is that the Government and the four leading banks set up a company (with $2 billion of our money and $500 million each from the banks) to lend to commercial property ventures hit by the withdrawal of foreign lenders from Australia.
Ruddbank - or the Australian Business Investment Partnership, as the Government prefers it to be called - would be a lender of last resort. The ventures would have to be "otherwise viable", we are assured.
But if there were a lot of them the company would also be able to borrow up to $26 billion, guaranteed by the federal Government, on top of the initial $4 billion injection.
With potentially $28 billion in taxpayers' money at stake, the Senate, wisely, decided to take a closer look.
Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program.
Homes for the homeless/social housing funds diverted to the BER $750 mill
Was the federal government rash when it promised a year ago that it would cut the nation's homeless queues in half by 2020?
Building the education reform (BER)
Computers for every school kid
Not too sure if this is part of the BER or a separate distraction in its own right
Home Insulation Scheme
Green Loans
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)/Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
The Resource Super Profit Tax, (RSPT)
This one is still running nicely as per defined spin.
Also just for the record the 2 lots of cash hand outs, pensioners et al and the second one of $900.
Yes you guessed it, I missed out on both.
It is just a small list spanning 3 years. I hope I did not miss something but heck we paid for all this and I hope you got your moneys worth back.
Now I unfortunately am not suggesting much here but I can defiantly say we pay for politicians and their labour of love for our country and simply both sides of the fence seem to fail the test badly.
Can we have our money back?