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    <title>topic Re: this is a excellent budget in Community Spirit</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249579#M330856</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" title="Permanent Link : Abbott's attack on youth: The birth of a lost generation" href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbotts-attack-on-youth-the-birth-of-a-lost-generation,6498"&gt;Abbott's attack on youth: The birth of a lost generation&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class="articleResultItems"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" title="" rel="tooltip" href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/profile-on/kellie-tranter,246"&gt;Kellie Tranter&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;19 May 2014&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;The misguided policies of the Abbott Government will turn young people who need a little help from a long term asset into a current liability, writes&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://kellietranter.com/bio-contact/"&gt;Kellie Tranter&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="4"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT’S pre-election ‘&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.liberal.org.au/realsolutions/"&gt;Our Plan&lt;/A&gt;’ included a promise to help&amp;nbsp;young people get jobs.&amp;nbsp;But by&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/national/a/23621531/budget-attacked-on-all-fronts/"&gt;disembowelling the support services&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;young people need to find suitable work, they haven’t just broken yet another core promise — they are creating a lost generation.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Firstly, the government would be well aware that a&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/study-work-fulltime-australians-youth-unemployment/5056224"&gt;quarter&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;of young Australians aged 17-24 are not in full-time study or work. &lt;FONT size="3"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;That’s generally not due to any unwillingness to work or welfare mindset, but simply because there has been a fall in full-time employment opportunities for young people.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Secondly, the Government would know that after the global financial crisis 15-19 year-olds lost nearly&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/21674100/meet-the-lost-generation-of-young-workers/"&gt;100,000&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;jobs, a matter which has not been adequately addressed or properly managed by any government since.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And, finally, the government’s budgetary position assumes that the lives of young people are relatively secure because they can rely on family as a financial backstop — a proposition contradicted by the fact that the major&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalyouthcoalitionforhousing.org.au/about_homelessness/snapshot.html"&gt;cause&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;of homelessness for young people in Australia is family conflict and breakdown.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The budgetary attacks on Australia’s young people mirrors the paternalistic brutishness of the ‘earn or learn’ welfare crackdown the UK Tory government&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442197/David-Camerons-Earn-learn-benefit-crackdown-Go-college-job-lose-handouts.html"&gt;introduced&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;in October last year. Just like the U.S. model for financing tertiary education, the Abbott Government is effectively importing and implementing policies from countries whose income inequality is among the highest in the developed world.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class="embed-container youtubeLink"&gt;&lt;DIV class="youtubeTitle"&gt;Britain's growing poor driven to food banks &amp;amp; payday loans to stay afloat&lt;/DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;Play Video&lt;DIV class="youtubeWait"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV class="youtubeWait"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV class="youtubeWait"&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Government also fails to understand that schools aren’t responsible for the transition of young people into work.&amp;nbsp;Their role is to provide education: curriculum delivery and academic outcomes. Successfully implementing&amp;nbsp;programs in schools to develop employability skills in our young people – communication skills, personal presentation skills, the attitude to work, the ability to work as part of a team – requires good relationships and regular interaction between schools and local employers, facilitated by experienced local, independent intermediaries, like the successful&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.cciwa.com/workforce-development-services/Partnership_Broker_Program"&gt;Partnership Brokership Program&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It too was overlooked in the recent budget.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The government’s excuse not to continue the Partnership Brokership Program may be the fact that it was implemented by the previous government, but they have failed to provide any policy direction that local, independent, intermediaries&amp;nbsp; continue to link schools with employers to assist with the transition of young people from education to work.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And their attack goes even further.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Budget&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.budget.gov.au/2014-15/content/bp2/html/bp2_expense-10.htm"&gt;states&lt;/A&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;‘The Government will achieve savings of $52.5&amp;nbsp;million over four years by limiting the number of times that volunteer job seekers can access Jobs Services Australia (JSA) to one occasion…’&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;In other words, young people who do not receive a Centrelink payment – which is most young people because of the level of their parents’ income – will be entitled to only one visit to a job service provider.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is combined with the scrapping of important interactive online resources for young people like the&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.myfuture.edu.au/"&gt;My Future&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.jobguide.thegoodguides.com.au/"&gt;Jobs Guide&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;websites.&amp;nbsp;Achieving “savings” perhaps, but at what cost?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class="embed-container youtubeLink"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;P&gt;As one source in the youth employment sector puts it:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;"&lt;STRONG&gt;Anyone who works with young people knows that after six months a young person becomes disconnected from the workforce. Employers who see that a young person has been unemployed for six months will seldom give that young person a look in. The Government is under the misapprehension that young people don’t want to work rather than recognising that they don’t have the tools or support to get employment.&amp;nbsp;Families will become more fractured. Young people will move into group housing with friends to share the cost which will create the inevitable social problems caused by a lack of adult supervision and guidance. Accessing support services – if they are aware of its existence – will become a hidden cost to families as the funding model for these organisations moves to a user pays system.”&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;The misdirected policies of the Abbott Government are turning young people who need a little help from a long term asset into a current liability.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;read more:&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbotts-attack-on-youth-the-birth-of-a-lost-generation,6498"&gt;http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbotts-attack-on-youth-the-birth-of-a-lost-generation,6498&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 03:45:53 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>izabsmiling</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-05-20T03:45:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249113#M330735</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:26:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>*mrgrizz*</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:26:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249125#M330738</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Ah, yes, those kids who will grow up to provide the services that you need....&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:30:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bluecat*dancing</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:30:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249135#M330740</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/239046"&gt;@bluecat*dancing&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ah, yes, those kids who will grow up to provide the services that you need....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;yes and i will pay for that service, when and as i need it.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:31:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>*mrgrizz*</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:31:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249145#M330741</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;That's nice for you! enjoy!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:33:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>azureline**</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:33:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249149#M330742</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;good one mrgrizz, made me laugh out loud, always appreciated. Comedy thread of the day - thanks.&amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="womanlol" class="emoticon emoticon-womanlol" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_woman-lol.png" alt="Woman LOL" title="Woman LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:33:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:33:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249177#M330748</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;no i am serious.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;has always been a bone of contention for me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;why should i be paying for your kids. should be no FTB A, FTB B, baby bonus, paid parental leave and what ever else that is able to be collected&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:44:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>*mrgrizz*</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:44:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249279#M330771</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;Will you be a self-funded retiree?&amp;nbsp; Paying your own medical expenses?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Will you be claiming pensioner rebates&amp;nbsp; on rates, &amp;nbsp;car rego, utilities?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The list goes on.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt; Everybody pays for everybody&lt;/EM&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:16:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249279#M330771</guid>
      <dc:creator>imastawka</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:16:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249289#M330773</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/70548"&gt;@*mrgrizz*&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yes it doesn't affect us in any major way, either Grizz. Maybe that's just because wer'e ordinary Australians. Paying an extra $7 to visit the GP perhaps is a bit&amp;nbsp; hum ha.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Then again we don't have kids. Then again we don't get any family benefits either.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:19:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>icyfroth</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:19:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249315#M330780</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Well that is true I suppose.&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.04px; line-height: 16.38px;"&gt;You &lt;U&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;won't&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&amp;nbsp;be having to pay for lower and average earners to have kids.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But you seem to have forgotten that you will now be paying for rich women to have kids.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I know who I would prefer my money to go to...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:26:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>i-need-a-martini</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:26:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249333#M330783</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/70548"&gt;@*mrgrizz*&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/239046"&gt;@bluecat*dancing&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ah, yes, those kids who will grow up to provide the services that you need....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;yes and i will pay for that service, when and as i need it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;they may not be there or qualified to give you the services you expect and need when you want to use them&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;expect the quality of service you may wish for to go downhill&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:30:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>izabsmiling</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:30:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249357#M330789</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/70548"&gt;@*mrgrizz*&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you don't have children you don't pay anything for them.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Your taxes go to general revenue not to any women or children that you accuse of taking money from you.. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:34:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>freakiness</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:34:23Z</dc:date>
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      <description>Do you think that is the only thing your taxes pay for?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I am happy to pay my $7 to see the doctor. Have private health cover, pay for my own glasses which cost me near to $900 plus private dentist. Pay GST and fuel excise plus all other taxes except income tax. I am unhappy with the the way this budget targets the aged, disabled and those who do need a helping hand. Lots could have been done to make it fairer. Sharing the pain, what a load of bull manure.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:50:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>purplecarrot-top</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:50:28Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249405#M330800</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;This budget is a FAIL - cuts spending but no increase in taxes.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;States &amp;amp; Terroritories going to have a $80bn shortfall in grants from the Fed Govt.. for schools and hospitals in 2018 (or earlier).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The States will be forced to increase taxes (GST?) to cover the shortfall.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:52:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:52:38Z</dc:date>
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      <description>I think it is a set up to increase GST. Starve the states of important funding, let the premiers do a song and dance about it. Oh dear, we need to raise the rate of GST. JMO.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:56:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>purplecarrot-top</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:56:01Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;Compulsary sterilization for the entire population. That would cut out the need for any type of child benefit.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;After all nature didn't intend for all specie to perpetuate itself, live for now. Future popular bah..luxury, thats someone elses job. Leave that to the "ordinary" people......or did I get that wrong?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Would also reduce competition for jobs so that would solve unemplyment benefit too.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Someone else should pay for kids, pay for their education and start in life, so that I can have a doctor/dentist/plumber/ to attend to my needs. These can be supplied by the "ordinary' people at their own expense&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:59:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>lane-ends</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:59:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249443#M330812</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Remember when parents where actually responsible for&amp;nbsp;raising their children?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 03:08:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>icyfroth</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T03:08:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249449#M330813</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;martini wrote:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;But you seem to have forgotten that you will now be paying for rich women to have kids.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What are your thoughts on that Mr Grizz ( the new paid parental leave scheme)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 03:10:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249449#M330813</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T03:10:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249463#M330820</link>
      <description>Yes we were responsible for our children. Jobs were easier to get as well. We struggled at times. Hubby was seldom out of work, it was businesses who thought we could live on nothing that was our problem. I for one was grateful when they brought in the larger payments for family, though most of mine had grown up. I think most are grateful for what they get. The increases in welfare are not the sole doing of labor governments,. Baby bonus, anyone?</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 03:20:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>purplecarrot-top</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T03:20:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249467#M330821</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I think its far from a fail, plus we all will get use to it, we always do.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 03:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249467#M330821</guid>
      <dc:creator>crystal**flake</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T03:21:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: this is a excellent budget</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249471#M330823</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;No complaining anyone, when the GST goes up to cover the shortfall in grants for hospitals and schools.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Budget didn't increase taxes, that doesnt mean the States &amp;amp; Terrorities won't be forced to, due to the Budget cuts,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This Budget is not like previous ones, it is the worst one ever presented.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 03:24:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/this-is-a-excellent-budget/m-p/1249471#M330823</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T03:24:33Z</dc:date>
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