One week after the state election and promises are already being broken. Blatant pork-barreling has been replaced by bare-faced lies.
"Barnett casts doubts on poll pledges" is the headline. With a sub-header of, "GST BLOW". Gary Adshead and Shane Wright report on the latest political insult to our intelligence.
Barnett "faces a tight budget, saying the reduction in GST grants would have to be offset by funding cuts and possible delays in election pledges."
But wait.
"The State Treasury had expected WA's share to fall..." Treasury expected our share to fall by even more than it did! So we will be getting MORE than the government's own bureaucrats expected. $134 million more next year, in fact.
So the government will get MORE than it expected. The newly elected government has MORE money than it expected. And, for some reason, this will "have to be offset by funding cuts and possible delays in election pledges."
More money in, less willingness to spend.
Political promises breaking. Within a week. Is this a record?
Still.
We all voted for the party that promised to spend more. (Well, you did. I voted Independent.) We all wanted more money to be pissed up against the wall of pointless over-development. Pissed into the pockets of politicians and their parasitic business partners.
So naturally enough, the biggest liars won the election.
But that's okay. We all knew they were lying. Even before we voted.
Are these the politicians we deserve? Would the others have been any better? Or do politicians need to already be corrupt, before the power-brokers even allow then to stand for election.
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