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Call me a cynic, but it was interesting that only a few days after Kevin Rudd announced that taxpayers would get a $950 stimulus package bonus the K-mart catalogue in our mailbox was advertising a wide-screen plasma TV for $949 (page 16).
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Wendy writes:
then i’m a cynic as well
Posted: 10 02 2009 - 13:36 | Permanent link to this comment
Matthew Smith writes:
It’s obvious: Kevin Rudd saw that catalogue before it was printed and set the package to match the TV price. As an aside, despite all the talk of plasma TVs, I don’t know a single person who has or is planning to buy one (and that includes some bogans I know) most people are planning to pay off their credit cards. (Also the bogans I know have already got the giant plasma TV on an interest free loan)
Posted: 10 02 2009 - 13:59 | Permanent link to this comment
Nick Caldwell writes:
It’s not even HD!
That’s not the message I should be taking, is it?
Posted: 10 02 2009 - 14:50 | Permanent link to this comment
Lisa writes:
Good one, Matt. I’m inclined to think that a lot of the plasma TV (baby/stimulus package/tax) bonus thing is a media beatup to push particular political and ideological viewpoints.
Wendy, nice to know I’m not alone being cynical over this one.
Posted: 10 02 2009 - 15:12 | Permanent link to this comment
Catriona writes:
I don’t have a credit card. Am I allowed to buy a giant television?
Posted: 10 02 2009 - 22:04 | Permanent link to this comment
John writes:
Only if it’s made in Australia. Otherwise we’re stimulating China’s (or somewhere else’s) economy, aren’t we?
Posted: 10 02 2009 - 22:51 | Permanent link to this comment
Wendy writes:
but isn’t China’s economy what we’re all depending on…and if it’s on the up then ours will be too?
i have a very poor grasp of economics as you probably tell!
Posted: 11 02 2009 - 15:29 | Permanent link to this comment
Lisa writes:
No, I think Wendy that you’ve grasped precisely what they’ve been telling us repeatedly for years.
Posted: 12 02 2009 - 12:23 | Permanent link to this comment
Nick Caldwell writes:
Package has passed – the stimulus cheque will be $50 less than promised. KMart had better discount that plasma a bit more!
(Seriously though, it’s not even HD! Bah.)
Posted: 13 02 2009 - 13:24 | Permanent link to this comment
tseen writes:
Cynicism, realism – I was of the same mind-set! I was also amused at how many people were calling talkback radio and carrying on about how this talk of spending ‘stimulus package’ dosh on consumables and frivolity isn’t going to feed the poor… (ummm, cos it isn’t meant to?)
Posted: 19 02 2009 - 13:05 | Permanent link to this comment