Saturday 21 February 2015

Abbott's budget disaster all our selfish fault - The Australian

The Abbott cheer squad is going full throttle in Murdoch's failing newspaper The Australian. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Abbott's disaster of a gov. However, in this parallel universe that they appear to reside in, Abbott is being hard done by, and it's actually our fault that Abbott finds himself in polling annihilation land. We're selfish you see:
If it’s fair to censure the government for errors on the reform front, we should be equally straight shooting about the chief reason reform has stalled in this country. We, the people, are one of the biggest hurdles for a reforming government. 

According to record low polls for the government, we, the ­people, have told the Abbott government it will be obliterated at the next election for aiming for a budget that spends only as much as it earns. We have said we don’t much care about paying $100 million a day interest on our borrowings. more  
Really? Apart from it being delusional that this gov has any budget restraint at all, how can somebody be that ignorant of the reality of life for many Australians. What? We want to see a doctor for nothing after forking out for the Medicare levy each financial year? We want to have the PBS provide affordable medication that we need, as it was set up to do? We want our kids to be able to afford to educate themselves at Uni if they so desire? We want pensioners to actually be able to afford to eat without having them slowly starve over the years from indexation that doesn't keep up? Oh the humanity! How selfish of us! We're standing in the way of corporate reform! The poor must suffer for all of this "reform" apparently.

Perhaps corporations should pay their fuckin tax. How's that for a reform eh? Corporations actually paying the amount of tax they're supposed to. But oh no, that reform seems bloody impossible.

How about rewording the above quote; them, the corporate tax dodgers, are one of the biggest hurdles for a reforming gov. The only selfish ones are them. Too selfish to pay for the roads they use, the infrastructure they use. How many of them in the Australian corporate world have been in our hospitals? How many of their kids go to our schools? Fuckin selfish pricks won't bloody contribute.
 

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