Swan should know weekly interest bill

Good one Treasurer Swan!

http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-national/swan-should-know-weekly-interest-bill-20100805-11jcb.html

Swan should know weekly interest bill

August 5, 2010 - 1:44PM

AAP 
Australian families would be worried that Treasurer Wayne Swan didn't know how much interest the government was paying each week on its debt, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.

Mr Swan was asked several times on Melbourne talkback radio on Thursday to reveal the amount of the weekly interest bill.
"I can't give you a figure on that debt in terms of interest. I can give you the gross figure because that's the one that really matters, because it's entirely affordable," the treasurer said.

Mr Abbott said he understood it was $80 million a week in the current financial year, rising to about $100 million a week in the next financial year.

Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney that families knew how much they were paying out each week.

"I do think it would worry the ordinary families of this country that the treasurer ... doesn't know what the weekly interest bill is," he said.