Budget bore
My computer's gone crazy and I can't switch the settings from 4-bit colour and some wacky resolution that's all wrong for the monitor. (Well, I say 'my' computer like I own it. I don't. The computer that I use to access the internet is stuck in 4-bit colour and my web browser occasionally crashes for no discernable reason.)
Anyway, having discovered that I have no idea how to fix this problem, I am nonetheless attempting to read the budget papers despite 4-bit colour and weird resolution. Because I have suddenly turned into an enormous budget bore. I am deeply sorry that I was at work when Wayne Swan was doing a chatroom Q&A because I desperately want to know how severe the drop in taxation revenue was and the cost of maintaining social services as a percentage of the overall budget.
Oh hell, I just got my answer to the first question! $210 billion! So the government will be taking in $210 billion less from taxes than they did last year.
I expect nobody else on my LJ really wants to talk economics, but I can happily sit here talking to myself.
EDIT: Okay, it is seriously unfair that the computer goes all "FIXED" as soon as Byron turns up and does the exact same thing I'd been trying for days. NOT FAIR.
Anyway, having discovered that I have no idea how to fix this problem, I am nonetheless attempting to read the budget papers despite 4-bit colour and weird resolution. Because I have suddenly turned into an enormous budget bore. I am deeply sorry that I was at work when Wayne Swan was doing a chatroom Q&A because I desperately want to know how severe the drop in taxation revenue was and the cost of maintaining social services as a percentage of the overall budget.
Oh hell, I just got my answer to the first question! $210 billion! So the government will be taking in $210 billion less from taxes than they did last year.
I expect nobody else on my LJ really wants to talk economics, but I can happily sit here talking to myself.
EDIT: Okay, it is seriously unfair that the computer goes all "FIXED" as soon as Byron turns up and does the exact same thing I'd been trying for days. NOT FAIR.