DEAR News Of The Area,
I wish to reply to the Letter to the Editor in last week’s News Of The Area, by Sue Baker.
It was Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, who said if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it.
There are a number of statements in Sue Baker’s letter that need clarification.
First, the fuel excise reduction is only one of the cost of living reductions from the LNP.
For example their energy plan is 44 percent cheaper than Labor’s.
Plus we will have lower inflation because of cuts to wasteful spending.
Secondly, the reduction to the Public Service in Canberra is overdue seeing as under the Albanese Government the Public Service has grown out of all proportion and is being used as a way to hold down the unemployment statistics.
However this is a false economy because Public Servants do not produce anything unlike industries, tradesmen or shop assistants, etc.
Thirdly, Sue Baker says that Dutton wants to put taxes up?
But not one example given.
Under Labor our taxes have increased and our cost of living has gone through the roof and we are now the poorest performing economy in the world’s developed nations.
Fourthly, Australia has over 300 years supply of gas in the ground, so why not open the gas wells?
For example the Narrabri fields, and then we can have cheaper gas for domestic and industrial use.
Sounds like a no brainer to me.
As for cutting $350 billion from the Budget, isn’t that what is needed when our deficit is now over $1 trillion and rising?
Are you happy that at the present rate our debt will not be paid off until 2060?
That is what our children and grandchildren will have to pay.
The Bible says the parents should provide for the children, not the children for the parents!
Sixthly, the $600 billion figure that Sue quotes for the cost of nuclear energy is from an article in the Guardian newspaper from an anti-nuclear lobby group.
The actual figures are less than half that amount.
Unlike Labor’s renewables, the cost of which we see in our yearly electricity and gas bills, and rising.
If the LNP policies leave Sue shuddering in her shoes, under Labor you won’t even be able to afford a pair of shoes.
Regards,
Tony EVANS,
Lake Cathie.
