Monday 17 September 2018

PM Morrison lies to Australian's - denies his funding cuts to Aged Care 2016

Well it didn't take long for Australian voters to catch on how much bullshit it was for Scott Morrison to call a royal commission into Aged Care in 2018, when (even for those who didn't realise fully) a quick Google would bring up ample evidence that Morrison did indeed cut $1.2 billion of federal funding out of the aged care budget in 2016. Exhibit A above which is now all over the internet and main stream news outlets. And, as even I myself pointed out in the last post here, that industry groups warned him that such a cut would lead to a reduction of care in nursing homes.

 Now two years later and Morrison has gone from treasurer to prime minister, with that change leaving the gov looking to being wiped out in the coming election. After a disastrous first two weeks of his leadership, he's wanted to look like he's actually doing something and taking action on things. Enter Morrison announcing a royal commission into Aged Care in response to the worsening levels of care over the last 2 years. Stunningly failing to see the elephant in the room.....heelloooo.....

 Even more stunningly, Morrison is denying that as treasurer in 2016 he made those cuts. He appears to think that if he preaches hard enough and yells hard enough and is indignant enough, Australian's will believe that red is black. Or that he didn't put Aged Care into the red but the black, or something like that. He fails to realise that the Australian people are not his church congregation; where everything that's preached from the pulpit goes unquestioned and accepted. 

 The reason is simple to me. If he admits he actually did make the cuts, then he'd have to admit that the Aged Care industry warned him about the consequences, that those consequences have now happened, and essentially he's called a royal commission into his very own federal cuts to Aged Care.
Abbott's at the top providing the drum beat
In any case, after trying to look like a leader and prime ministerial, he's now looking completely foolish. An emperor with no clothes. 

 What an utter utter idiot. What a brainless moron. What an imbecilic buffoon. This is the best the Liberal party can offer up as prime minister? 

 Australian's are champing at the bit for an election to be called as soon as can be. We want this Muppet show gone and someone in who can deal with the serious problems facing Australia after five long years of this inept clown show. They're not even funny.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has angrily denied cutting $1.2 billion in aged care funding as he announced a royal commission into the sector.

 “If people want to put questions, they are not allowed to put lies,” Mr Morrison told a journalist on Sunday who asked about the cuts.

 The Prime Minister went back and forth with the reporter, as he insisted he had not, as treasurer, presided over the funding cuts in the 2016 budget.

 “This is why I’m having a royal commission because I’m not going to put up with lies being told about what’s happening in the aged care sector,” Mr Morrison said.

 “Policies must be based on facts, not the facts that are dreamt up, not facts that are misinterpreted, not the facts that have agendas sitting behind them.”

 However, the 2016 budget said the government would “achieve efficiencies of $1.2 billion over four years” from federal funding paid to aged care providers. The New Daily



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