Why not? It was never exactly catchy anyway.  And these additional words tell the real story of what Labor is offering.  The real cost Australians will have to pay if Labor is re-elected.

The fact is, Australia slides another one hundred million dollars into debt every single day – thanks to Labor’s reckless spending in less than three years.

When you consider they inherited a whopping Budget surplus and a healthy Future Fund as well, it’s an unfathomable turnaround in our nation’s economic well being.

Even if the deadly home insulation fiasco hadn’t happened, if the influx of illegal boat entries hadn’t compromised our borders, if the wasteful school halls program hadn’t squandered billions of taxpayers dollars, even if Labor hadn’t squibbed their promises on climate change, childcare, fixing hospital waiting lists, grocery prices, whaling, fuel prices, computers in schools, the list goes on…

Even if the above litany of failures had not occurred, Labor’s appalling mismanagement of our economy is enough to warrant the Australian public relegating this bunch to the scrapheap of history as a one-term Government.

The Labor and Union hard-heads clearly knew this – that’s why they dispatched an elected Prime Minister in the dead of night and installed a new one. That’s why Gillard has raced to the polls less than one month later. 

But let’s stop for a minute and think about what has really changed? Aside from hastily tinkering with the mining tax, what did Gillard actually do in the three weeks she was Prime Minister prior to calling the election? 

Think about it. Desperate to fool the public into thinking Labor under her is more mainstream than under Kevin Rudd, she said she didn’t want a big Australia, but refused to say how she would curb growth. No wonder her former comrade, Mark Latham, said her new position on population growth was “a fraud”. She claimed she would stop the boats – but offered no practical solution (except the failed East Timor “idea”).

She cannot credibly brush aside the Labor policies she supported for years as she stood beside Kevin Rudd, nodding.

Sure, there have been plenty of glamorous magazine spreads lauding our first female PM – but what policy decisions has she actually made?

Truth is, in all the acres of newsprint she’s achieved, new Prime Minister Julia Gillard has not repudiated a single Labor policy that landed Australia with this massive debt. 

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The first week of the campaign has been characterised by Labor’s vacuous slogan and plenty of confected photo opportunities for the PM – displaying the same addiction to spin and the media cycle that helped Labor to “lose its way”. 

But with every contrived photo op and every time you hear the words “moving forward” (sorry), we all need to think about the real cost of 3 more years of Labor mismanagement. 

Voting Labor has a steep but certain price - $100,000,000 a day, every day. 

In fact, the most certain promise of this campaign is that the debt will keep racking up under Labor.

Debt that ultimately has to be paid back – and that means we all pay more taxes. 

Debt that wastes billions of dollars in interest payments - and that means less in the kitty for vital community services.

Debt that will push interest rates higher.

It’s pretty simple really.  $100 million a day to “move forward” under Labor.  It’s the inevitable price of a Labor victory.