The Australian reckons I'm a "burden" :s

Here we go again. A new social services minister and a recitation of the same old Lieberal lies. Yes folks, meet the "burden" the Australian newspaper is talking about. How dare I have mental illness. How dare I have chronic health conditions. My bad. Sorry everyone for being such a terrible burden on society as the new minister says.

I wonder if he would say that if a member of his family was sick enough to have to get it and try and survive off the pittance? To have to spend weeks of jumping through Centrelink hoops to get it in the first place? Just no fuckin idea. Apparently I'm engaged in an evil plot to survive on a pittance.

Why can't they just leave us all alone and stop using us as a scapegoat for their economic mismanagement? Go fuck yourself Porter.

This week the new Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, indulged in the rite of passage under Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull by slapping those on the Disability Support Pension (DSP). 

And as with those ministers who came before him, Porter spoke of concerns that are massively over-hyped and serve only to further stigmatise people with disabilities. 

All conservative government ministers need to appear tough on something, and social services ministers always seem to think kicking some of the most disadvantaged in society is the best way to do it. 

Announcing that the DSP is out of control and needs to be targeted is a step that both Kevin Andrews and Scott Morrison took with glee when they were the responsible ministers, and now Christian Porter - the third such minister in two years - has joined in. ABC