But yes we do have a voice. This is a relatively new phenomenon I'd think. We don't have to struggle to get a couple of lines in a mogul media outlet that demonise us anyway. We can put our circumstances out there for all to see, without the mogul filters. Like here we are, these are the facts, and what he fuck is this gov saying about us, and why the fuck are they saying it? This is our fuckin life they're talking about, not just some numbers on a page.
It's clear as day that there is no budget emergency. As I've been saying all along, this is what conservative gov's do. They have a big "opening of the books" not long after being elected, some bullshit investigation into how money can be saved as we now have a surprise budget emergency, claim they now have a mandate to slash and burn, and then go about doing it.
However this gov has entirely "jumped the shark" so to speak this time. They are trying to accomplish their agenda by blatantly lying to us like we're a bunch of naive schoolies. They seem so confident in their superior-ness over us, that they think we will swallow their lies. Newsflash Abbott.... it's called the internet.... no wonder he wants to trash the NBN...... Rupert would lose control......
So here we are. The gov is about to clobber us with a horror budget entirely of their own ideology. Everyone knows it. Nobody with a brain is buying it. After 22 straight years of growth, our economy is not in tatters FFS. Yes, here we are. Angry.
Be afraid Tone. There's a lot of us sick and down. We won't forget you kicking when we are. This anger won't subside or be forgotten. Just remember Tone, there are over 800,000 of us on the DSP, in a country of only 23 million. We can vote, and we have the internet....
Gone are the days when we would sit huddled in our corners afraid of the likes of you Abbott. I take great pride in being on the net as it's something that I can still control and have a say in. The old saying in politics is to not offend someone who buys ink by the barrel (or something like that). Well we don't need ink any more, or a printing machine. Online, our ink is unlimited.
Amazingly, the government would like us to believe that this is all necessary. It’s all the previous administration’s fault, of course. The message is clear and consistent: the Coalition don’t want to do this, but they must. Why? Because, in Hockey’s words, ‘What this report proves is that we have inherited a mess’.
Really, Mr Hockey? Are pensioners out in the streets desperately trying to make their terrible circumstances known, as they are in Greece? Is our inflation rate at almost 60%, as it is in Venezuela? Is our debt as a percentage of GDP at 230%, as it is in Japan?
The short answer is NO. They’re not.
Our inflation rate is 2.9%.
Our debt as a percentage of GDP is 28%.
Yes, we have a deficit. Yes, if a completely unforeseen disaster happened right now, we would need to borrow more money to combat that. But that deficit came about as a result of spending designed to cushion us from the impact of the Global Financial Crisis. It was strategy – and it worked.
The government would have us believe this was ‘wasteful’. They prattle about pink batts and school halls, and just about turn themselves inside out trying to obscure the real effect of the Rudd and Gillard governments’ spending initiatives.
And yet the Coalition decided to increase the deficit by $8 billion ‘just in case’.
And yet the Coalition decided to spend $24 billion on buying Joint Strike Fighters in a highly questionable business deal.
The same people who even now wring their hands and all but confirm that their sights are squarely trained on the most vulnerable of us.
Hockey says the Commission’s recommendations are ‘courageous’.
No, Mr Hockey. What would be courageous would be your government refusing to kick people when they’re already down.
But what are the chances of that?
Guess it’s over to you, Labor, Greens, PUP. Anybody? Anybody? more
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