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Monday 4 February 2008, 2:27 pm

The Editor

Categories: Politics

Tags: FamilyFirst, inflation, InterestRates, PetrolTax, SteveFielding

Remember the last time that Steve Fielding said “jump” and Kevin Rudd said “how high?” I wonder if we’ll see it again.

Family First Senator Steve Fielding says the Federal Government should reduce the impact of further interest rate rises by cutting the tax on petrol.

[…]

“People are struggling to make ends meet,” he said.

“Petrol has fuelled inflation for the last couple of years. Now this is a significant problem, and it’s about time the Rudd Government really got a handle on this issue by cutting petrol tax.”

But do you know what the truly amazing thing about that story is? Fielding didn’t use the word “family.” Not once.

14 Comments

Steve D (Monday 4 February 2008, 2:52 pm) #

Working families why working families do working families you working families think working families Fielding working families would working families need working families to working families mention working families families?

Hasn’t it been mentioned enough already?

(BTW, is “petrol has fuelled inflation” a deliberate pun?)
Bruce (Monday 4 February 2008, 3:01 pm) #

Like cutting taxes won’t fuel inflation in our current economic climate. There will be more money floating around in the economy as a result and it won’t be held by families nor will it be held by the commerce or industry who factor fuel costs into their prices.

The petroleum companies will absorb the tax cut and reinvest the $$$ in X project that has diddly to do with making fuel more affordable (of diddly to do with fuel at all.)
Wah (Monday 4 February 2008, 6:36 pm) #

The reason he didn’t mention families is because as you’ve posted before, family is code for fundi’ Christian values. Unlike banning gay marriages and abortion, lowering fuel taxes appeals to all, so he doesn’t have to use code to appeal to his real target demographic.

Now the election is over I’m glad I don;t have to hear “working families” families again.
krypto (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 12:03 am) #

Kevin Rudd took out copyright, now everytime anyone in Australia uses the “f” word, they have to give him a fiver, it’s a Henry Lawson everytime they say “wf”.
It’s all part of his fightback for “wf”.
kat (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 7:48 am) #

how much tax is there on petrol anyway? is cutting the tax really going to change the fact that petrol is expensive all over the world right now?

surely stevie wouldn’t lie to working families.
The Editor (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 7:50 am) #

I emailed your question to Steve and here was his response:

“Working families, family values, working families, family values, working families, family values, working families, family values, Pentecostal Church.”
Wah (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 8:17 am) #

It just so happens that according to Urban Dictionary, the act The Editor describes has a also has turtle connotation.

1. TURTLE RECALL

to “suck back in”, a turd that has reached the outer most muscle of you anus. this motion is often done in a desperate attempt not to shat ones kacks when in dire need of latrine facilities, but if not carried out sucessfully often results in a chud nut appearing between ones crack.

“wow! i’ve just had turtle recall! how lucky was that!”
Wah (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 7:04 pm) #

Ed I just realised I posted the Turtle Recall thingy above in thw rong category - I was wondering where that bloody went. Please delete at your discretion.
Though I’m sure squeezing back a shit can have some kind of analogy ith Family First - any ideas?
krypto (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 7:25 pm) #

I consider an ingrown turd to be synonomous with Steve Fielding Wah.
The Editor (Tuesday 5 February 2008, 9:49 pm) #

You’re right. It stays.
krypto (Thursday 7 February 2008, 1:32 pm) #

“how much tax is there on petrol anyway? is cutting the tax really going to change the fact that petrol is expensive all over the world right now?”
Well I know for me personally that two cents a litre at the petrol bowser means the difference between eating lobster stuffed with caviar served on a bed of 24 carat gold leaf and eating some mystery substance I found leaking out of a stormwater drain.
John Surname (Thursday 7 February 2008, 1:38 pm) #

“…between eating lobster stuffed with caviar served on a bed of 24 carat gold leaf…”

Communist.
krypto (Thursday 7 February 2008, 7:44 pm) #

Da Comrade, Da.
Bridgit Gread (Friday 8 February 2008, 1:03 pm) #

There’s only one Fielding-esque solution to fuel shortages:
BURN MORE GAYS.