Get ready for a budget cash splash

You know that old proverb: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”?

If there ever was a statement that seemed lacking in logic, it was that. Ok, I get the concept. It represents two mutually exclusive choices.

But really, what’s the point of having the cake if you aren’t going to eat it? You can always let it go stale and rancid. Then you can have your cake and you really can’t eat it.

After a horror six weeks of scandals, mismanagement, missteps and recriminations, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg finally have something to celebrate and are on the cusp of proving that proverb wrong.

Between them, they’ve got cakes lining up to the horizon, multiple birthdays and combined Christmases all coming at once. And when…