Australia's growing poverty crisis

Forget your fuckin balance sheet SSJoe. If this isn't a crisis I don't know what is. If these numbers keep going up there's going to end up be a very lot of disenchanted members of the community out there with no faith in the society in which they live. Quite apart from anything else, social order comes to mind. 

On Sunday 12 October 2014 ACOSS released a new report revealing that poverty is growing in Australia with an estimated 2.5 million people or 13.9% of all people living below the internationally accepted poverty line. 

The report provides the most up to date picture of poverty in the nation drawing on new data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics Income and Expenditure surveys for 2011-12 and previous years. It found that 603,000 or 17.7% of all children were living in poverty in Australia. more

I'm not betting on Abbott doing anything about it. Apparently we all deserve poverty because we're not catholics lunching with Pell. 

What does a corporate run gov care about poverty? Nothing I'd suggest. Those bloody gov's that hand out our corporate dollar to the poor! How dare they! Bloody leaners! Get a fuckin job! bla.....