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The leaning to authoritarianism is probably because she opted heavily in favor of the proposition that the media-tart judges of Masterchef should be hung, drawn and quartered. And left to stew in their own jus.
Wasn't the Labor party supposed to be kinder to "battlers" than the Liberals?
Yet Kafkalink has hardly changed since Labor got into power. It's as punitive as ever, despite the fact that we now have a projection of 140,000 long term unemployed thanks to the global financial meltdown.
The weekly unemployment benefit for the victims of the global financial crisis remains at just $226 per wk, plus a small rent allowance.
How is anyone supposed to live off this? If ever the "deserving poor" deserved more, it's now!
Yet Labor did not see fit to boost this paltry sum in the last budget. Why not? Because they can get away with it. Because they have chosen the easy path of pandering to the downward envy of the resentful classes, in the hope of staying a percentage point ahead in the polls.
And then there was the rat-baggery of denying the long-term unemployed the $900 stimulus bonus, when they are the ones who needed it most, and would have spent it quickest to bail out local small businesses.
And just who are the long-term unemployed anyway? Mostly people with marginal disabilities, who are perhaps a bit slow, physically or mentally, or perhaps are mildly autistic and lack the social skills to "sell themselves" in a competitive market. Maybe they suffer from complex chronic conditions, poorly controlled depression/ anxiety, sleep disorders, chronic fatigue and the like, . And of course, being over 45 is a disability in its own right when it comes to finding a job. And these are the poor wretches who are denied the disability pension, in the name of saving the Treasury a measly $100 a fortnight.
And what is Julia Gillard, the Minister for Inclusion, doing lately about "including" unemployed people when they can't even afford the bus fare to the nearest community centre? The poor buggers don't even qualify for the Pensioner Excursion fare!
PS. Not that the disability pension is anything to get too excited about. After all the hoo-haa about the "massive" boost to pensions in the last budget, it's still only $285 per week.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Labor betrays the unemployed
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Is there a "Julia Gillard, the Minister for Inclusion," Barbie Doll?
Don't ask me why I would want one!
http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/slideshow_ajax.aspx?sectionid=8847§ionname=slideshowajax&subsectionid=145797&subsectionname=doll WHICH DOLL WOULD BE ON TOP OF YOUR LIST?
You're right DH. I am so glad I got back on the Disab. before they made us take Newstart first.
I've been on Newstart since Christmas but I have a pension card (whoopee). Before that they had me working for the dole in a sheltered workshop known as Coles. Before that I was on Newstart with pension card. Before that I was a sole parent. Before that I was on the dole.
To get revenge on the country I hate, my son has the best education the country can offer and will leave when he has his PhD. Switzerland seems nice.
Despite all the talk about mateship, Australia has never been kind to people who can't get work. There's a very selfish resentful streak which politicians like Howard exploited to the hilt. Labor doesn't seem to have the courage to look after people who are victims of the global greed bubble.
How did Dennis Ferguson get ahead of all those people who've been on the NSW public housing list for years?
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