Comments by "Invisible huh?" (@Whoisthis1111) on "Jim Chalmers on Q+A | ABC News" video.

The LNP has plenty not to be proud of, and the labor budget is essentially the LNP budget with some small changes to the budget. I do however agree that it was all platitudes. He and his party were the ones blaming the cost of living crisis on the LNP. Now they’re blaming external factors just like the LNP were before they were voted out. They also claim the LNP hid electricity prices increase but labor knew this. They got the draft report sometime in the first quarter but hung on to the claim that they would decrease energy prices by 2025 by $275. This is completely on them for lying then and acting as if they’re honest now.
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10:59 he and his party blamed the LNP for the cost of living crisis all throughout the campaign. Now he and his party are blaming external factors. It’s almost as if they lied and that they’re just as bad. It’s also almost as if he doesn’t know what to do yet and is stalling for time.
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@oliverhumphris2569 so labor blames it on external factors? The energy crisis we had after the election yes is on the LNP. They should’ve done more to supplement the inconsistent energy production from renewables as it makes up too much of our grid to not have a base load technology supporting it. To be fair they did try to with gas but labor opposed it. In this case, labor was the one lying, especially considering that they had every piece of info they needed before the election to alter their policies if necessary before the campaign. There was a draft report on the energy market made available before the final report that was delivered after the election. I’m no fan of Scotty but Albanese isn’t significantly better either.
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@mellofello2537 for their part of the problem yes, but I’d also not like them to lie like they did earlier this year in the campaign only to come out with the same excuse the LNP were wheeling out in response to labor’s criticisms of them in the cost of living crisis.
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@carn941 where in my comment do I state it’s all labor’s fault? Read my comment and then read my other replies in the thread. Cost of living appeared due to the massive stimulus put into the world economy by every nation. That’s the reason we have it. It’s also caused by the flooding and the ukraine war. The LNP didn’t help, they should’ve continued to pursue gas as a baseload to back up renewables, but they folded because of labor. That’s partly the reason our energy prices are about to increase. If you read my other comments, you’ll realise I’m blaming labor for not only lying, but giving people false hope. They blamed the LNP for every cost of living issue before the election but now are using the same excuses the LNP were. They continued to lie during the campaign with many other policies and talking bits.
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@carn941 You’re clearly misinterpreting what I’m saying. Im not blaming labor for everything that’s happening. Im blaming labor for being partly in fault for 1, opposing the gas led recovery which was going to form our base load (they now agree with the gas led recovery but opposed it for a year), 2 for lying about the decrease in power bills (despite knowing full well that the draft energy market report stated there’d be rising costs before the ukraine situation even happened). 3, they hung on to the claim and also stated they would get wages moving again and that they would fix the cost of living crisis, only to come in and suddenly become honest about the fact they can’t get wages moving yet and that they’re facing inflation due to external pressures on the global market (as seen in the budget update), not just internal issues created by LNP being too afraid to make the big decisions in fear of voters being turned away. Yes the LNP are to blame, but labor is at fault for continuing policy that it very well knew wouldn’t work due to both external and internal events it was privy to.
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@potapotapotapotapotapota they got us through the GFC because our economy is resources intensive and this kept our economy from facing the same issues felt around the world💀, the LNP kept our triple A credit rating despite the massive amounts of stimulus needed during our lockdowns and shut down of the border. Yes they lied through their teeth, but so have labor so far which is my point. Our debt tripled yes but it’s a result of the resources crash in 2014 from which it took us a few years to recover from, not to mention the exploding budget of the NDIS and other welfare services. 2020 was going to be our first surplus budget year due to the recovered commodities, despite the rapidly growing budget. Would you have rather had them cut our welfare, NDIS and Medicare (which by the way has increased per capita $200 adjusted for inflation)? Labor wanted us to spend a minimum extra $80 billion during the pandemic (through continued job keeper payments, vaccine incentives and other means). My point with this comment was that they’ve been disingenuous throughout the campaign around fixing the cost of living crisis, just like the LNP, and what’s worse is they don’t know what they’re going to do and their spending is only set to increase through the policy pledges they’ve made. They promised to get wages moving but now they’re realising it isn’t as easy as they thought, their budget numbers show this. There’s a plethora of issues that they claimed they would tackle but are slowly walking back from.
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