Political Backflips And The Like...

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Do you really think these people, (any people) actually get together and say: "Stuff the poor they are a blight on our nation so let's kick their asses, let's really hurt them, that'll teach them to be poor!"

They don't think that way, not from what I can gather anyway..

 

This is what I think these right wing liberals are thinking - they have people are poor because they are lazy. it is true if you're hardworking enough you can get out of the poverty trap, but many people are stuck in poverty due to circumstances.


No matter how hard you try and raise up the ladder, something will always kick 'em in the guts and push them back down. Victim of circumstances. Not everybody can work 4 jobs a day and still get a university degree. 


BS or not these right wing are pretty out of touch. 1 resume in the morning and 1 resume in the night? Can you appreciate how Australia will transpire had the government not be forced to backflip on this?


When joe hockey said the age of entitlement is over. While the people cheer, do you realise the impact that could have hit the vulnerable? Can you count the cost of the social repercussions to Australia? 


The potential hike in GP rate, the university fee hikes, fraudband... They are all stupid short sighted policies. By trying to get the budget balanced now, they are simply looting money from the future Australia to balance it. These policies will result in a whole new generation of the unprivileged.


I do not believe in welfare and hand outs.. I believe everything I have, I have to work for it. That is a principle, and I'm a principled person. But it's absurd to use idealistic principles to become policies - the world is not black and white. But looking at welfare in just figures of dollars in vs dollars out, these pollies failed to see the lives and families that are affected.

 

In general the ALP tends to be more about getting people to better themselves, while the coalition is more about getting people to fend for themselves. Right or wrong, this is just what I think of Australia politics.