The aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and clamouring for safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
He made well over 4 billion dollars worth of election promises. He backed John Brumby's target of 20% carbon emissions reductions, a lunatic enterprise that will drive up the price of food, fuel, electricity, housing and everything else. He committed to massive spending on so-called "public transport". Over 1.5 billion, in fact. The Herald-Sun, considered a pro-Coalition paper, even criticized Baillieu for his big-spending, saying he was worse than Labor. So don't get the idea that this is, in any way, an improvement. |
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Ted Baillieu is now Premier of Victoria but don't think that this means we're going to get smaller government and lower taxes in Victoria. The man is so left that many call him "Red Ted". In fact, as opposition leader, he often tried to outflank John Brumby to the left.