Cut minimum wage - Abbott advisor chairman

I just wonder if some of the ignorant people who didn't bother looking into the real issues before they voted in the last Federal election, are now starting to shit themselves at the monster they've created. A note to all those who currently rely on the minimum wage to get by, if you're not in a union, join one now.

A Maurice Newman, who is the chairman of Abbott's "Business Advisory Council" (ie. fuck the workers we don't have enough profits council) has spat the dummy about Australia's so called high minimum wage of $622 a week before tax.

Slashing the minimum wage would create a class of working poor similar to that in the United States, where homeless shelters are overflowing with full-time workers. 

This is the damning view of aid agencies responding to comments last week by Maurice Newman, the chairman of Tony Abbott's Business Advisory Council, who lamented that Australia's minimum wage was far higher than that of Britain, the US and Canada, a position echoed by economist Ross Garnaut in his latest book, Dog Days: Australia after the Boom, which was launched on Friday. 

Mr Garnaut would freeze the wages of the low paid but soften the blow by introducing new tax measures. 

"When we're $US33,500 and the US itself is only $US15,080 you can see there's an enormous disparity," Mr Newman said. 

He also criticised the Gillard government's commitment to Gonski education reforms and DisabilityCare. Mr Newman characterised the initiatives as good causes the economy couldn't afford. 

Brotherhood of St Laurence executive director Tony Nicholson said Mr Newman was "out of touch with the realities of a modern economy and society". 

He wondered if "Mr Newman was aware that homeless shelters in the US were overflowing with full-time workers earning the minimum wage [$US7.25 an hour under federal law].'' Read more

I wonder how much advice Abbott is going to take from this council chairman?........