The government has increased ASIO and other spy agency spending by $630 million a year. The war in Iraq will cost an extra $500 million a year.
So who is going to pay for this? You and me, through more Budget cuts.
Treasurer Joe Hockey told AM: ‘ There have been a number of initiatives already announced which are very important, such as increased funding for security, we need to identify the savings that help to pay for those sorts of new initiatives.’
Hockey will announce the details of the billions in new cuts to pay for war and to cover the previous Budget measures the Senate rejected in December in the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) budget update.
Abbott and Hockey are bringing the class war home. The message from the Abbott government couldn’t be any clearer. The war in Iraq is going to accelerate the war on workers and the poor, the sick, the disabled, the young, the old and the unemployed here in Australia.
