I fear there are no words to adequately express my contempt for the so-called “journalists” in our mainstream media.
So I won’t even try.
See for yourself, dear reader, whether my headline is apt, or no.
Here is Sid Maher & Joe Kelly of The Australian (my bold added):
Levy hike deferral ‘to cost $55bn’
INDUSTRY super funds have warned that Tony Abbott’s planned two-year delay in increasing the superannuation guarantee will cost workers a combined $55 billion in lost retirement earnings over seven years.
The warning from the Industry Super Network came as business groups split over the Opposition Leader’s budget reply speech…
[…seven paragraphs of diversionary bullsh!t posing as “reporting”…]
Industry Super Network chief executive David Whiteley said the proposed delay in the compulsory increase would result in a cumulative impact of $45bn less in super savings in the system over the next seven years.
“The figure rises to $55bn when the Coalition’s proposed abolition of the low-income earners’ superannuation concession is also taken into account,” he said.
ISN economists had estimated the delay would yield short-term budget savings of $1bn per annum over the next seven years but reduce super inflows by more than $5bn per annum.
Er… Sid? Joe? Hello … anyone home?!
How exactly did the Industry Super Network come up with those figures that you have reported parrotted from their press release, oh so authoritatively?
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Did the ISN show you their modelling? Their assumptions? Their raw source data?
Did you not see a big red flag waving when you read their press release (er.. you did read it, right?), claiming that the decision would “reduce super inflows by more than $5bn per annum”?
Did it not occur to you that these folks make their “living” from the fees they plunder off those “super inflows”?
Is it at all possible that the “economists” of the ISN are little more than completely full of sh!t, rent-seeking societal parasites, who have concocted some very convenient, nice-big-round-multiples-of-five numbers ($55bn, $45bn, $5bn) — forecasts, no less — for no other reason than to pressure Coalition politicians into changing policy, hoping to ensure that they do receive their long barracked for, extra super “inflows” / income stream?
“Given the enormous cost to [our much-anticipated income stream boost] … ISN urges the Coalition to reconsider its plans.”
Oh yes, one last question.
Where (and when) did the ISN’s blonde Campaign Manager last take you boys out to lunch?
Barnaby Is Right 
Is this the same media which the government had tried to make accountable which since that time has run a 1 sided campaign to change the government? Compelling reading.
Plagiarism?
hang ’em high
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)
In 1880, John Swinton was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton replied:
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
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Who controls polticians and news?
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/andie531/australian-democracy-israel-lobby-s-leash-australias-faceless-men
Will this apply to superannuation?
From Protocol No.6
“…….We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even large fortunes of the goyim will depend to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the States on the day after the political smash.”