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Swan has a head for figures

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AUSTRALIA’S chief number cruncher Wayne Swan may have a head for figures – but only those he likes.

Clearly he does have a head for figures.

Written by Samuel J

June 4th, 2012 at 7:01 pm

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  1. uno

    Irving J

    4 Jun 12 at 7:33 pm

  2. FAKE Swanee ‏@WayneSwan

    WTF!?! Polling at 26%!! Exactly how much money do I have to give you people?!? #Swanee

    JC

    4 Jun 12 at 7:39 pm

  3. FAKE Swanee ‏@WayneSwan

    People complaining BER $$ spent on schools that subsequently ceased operating? To you I say ‘AT LEAST WE DIDN’T BURN THEM DOWN!’

    JC

    4 Jun 12 at 7:40 pm

  4. Wayne Swan ‏@SwannyDPM

    Still waiting for when the #pennydrops with @JoeHockey that a family with a $300k mortgage now pays $3,500 a year less than under Libs

    wtf is he yabbering about?

    Gab

    4 Jun 12 at 7:43 pm

  5. Swanny is not concerned about the polls because he knows Green preferences wont get him over the line again in Lilley.

    H B Bear

    4 Jun 12 at 7:53 pm

  6. A 4 year old video clip. Really?

    SteveC

    4 Jun 12 at 8:38 pm

  7. What’s the cut off date for you to make it apropos , SteveC you clown?

    JC

    4 Jun 12 at 8:41 pm

  8. If the best you can do is 4 years old , that’s pretty lame.

    SteveC

    4 Jun 12 at 8:50 pm

  9. Well Steve the twitter quote is precisely 2 hours old. Switzerland is offering negative interest rates, the US has been at zero for what – 4 years?? – and Wayne is going on about the great news that interest rates are low, and presumably is delighted they are about to get lower still.

    Have you seen him say anything intelligent whatsoever about the current and impending European crisis?

    rob

    4 Jun 12 at 8:54 pm

  10. A head for figures?

    ‘Half a kilo of carrots, that’ll be $2 please’.

    ‘One kilo of apples, that’ll be $7-50 please.’

    ‘I can give you four mangoes for $3.’

    As Treasurer, Swan would make a great greengrocer.

    I would probably like the bloke as my local grocer He’d do a reasonable job and would smile as he gave you the change.

    But that’s it. I wouldn’t let him run the chocolate wheel at the local fete As for being Treasurer …

    Dandy Warhol

    4 Jun 12 at 8:55 pm

  11. This bumbling doesn’t bother me so much.

    In fact I’m happy if he stumbles along shuffling papers all day every day like a mad professor. It’s when he actually DOES something that real problems start, every time.

    Chris M

    4 Jun 12 at 8:55 pm

  12. So you agree he didn’t have a head for figure back then, now show us where he has improved since.

    Biota

    4 Jun 12 at 8:56 pm

  13. Swan has a good handle on the price of bananas at any point in time. Just ask him.

    Gab

    4 Jun 12 at 8:58 pm

  14. …Goose has been heard to use bananas as a shield…

    Token

    4 Jun 12 at 9:09 pm

  15. World’s Greatest Treasurer!

    C.L.

    4 Jun 12 at 9:30 pm

  16. IMO an incompetent cipher, deliberately put there to ensure that unlike the elected PM before him, Rudd would not have a strong, competent Treasurer who might be a potential replacement. And possibly so that the PM could go on his orgasmic spending sprees without having a strong, principled Treasurer to tell him no.

    And then he got blindsided by Julia.

    perturbed

    4 Jun 12 at 10:18 pm

  17. Sorry, that should have been “elected **Labor** PM before him”.

    perturbed

    4 Jun 12 at 10:19 pm

  18. It’s amazing how far you can get with a participation certificate in Public Administration.

    lotocoti

    4 Jun 12 at 10:20 pm

  19. Oh Lawdy. That fool is the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.

    We’ll all be rooned.

    Pedro the Ignorant

    5 Jun 12 at 1:03 am

  20. SteveC: a handful of far less cringeworthy moments collected over an 8 year period gave the left all the justification they needed to portray GWB – if not the most widely-read President in recent history, then one of the most – as the world’s stupidest man.

    What’s sauce for the goose…

    Oh come on

    5 Jun 12 at 3:08 am

  21. Pedro, I think the term is historically “We are so fucked.”

    Winston SMITH

    5 Jun 12 at 9:12 am

  22. Anyone up for a deadpool on what the real level of debt will be when Abbot seizes power from these creeps?

    .

    5 Jun 12 at 9:18 am

  23. @SteveC

    I honestly think that the Goose has been done a favour here….4 year old YouTube clip.

    He has even less of an idea now!!!!

    Maws

    5 Jun 12 at 12:54 pm

  24. I can’t watch this clip. I saw it once when it came out it was so embarrassing. But why am I embarrassed to watch someone I knew would not have the goods to pull off the Treasurer’s job?

    Because, like it or not, he is my Treasurer, even though I would never vote for him. Treasurer until the next election, that is.

    Please, bring on the next election.

    FaceLift

    5 Jun 12 at 11:22 pm

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