From AAP:
Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce said he would leave it to Mr Abbott to outline the coalition’s response to the budget.
But he did take a swipe at the government’s debt position, which he said was in the range of $141 billion.
“I know this is obvious, but you have to tell the Australian people this, just because you get a surplus, doesn’t mean you’ve paid off your debt,” Senator Joyce told reporters.
Barnaby is right, of course.
You need to achieve budget surpluses – lots of them – in order to pay down your debt.
I wonder how many mainstream reporters actually know that this is obvious? And I wonder how many reporters will heed Barnaby’s advice, that “you have to tell the Australian people this“?
Few if any, I’ll wager. I would happily bet that a poll taken now would show that most Aussies have been thoroughly hoodwinked by the Rudd Labor and media ‘spin’ lies campaign… and think that a (claimed) return to surplus in 2012-13 means that the debt wil be all paid off.
Barnaby Is Right 
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