A good way to stay poor if you want

[donnashuggy]

[polksaladallie]

The minister caught sexting, and called the plonker, was married, of course, and sent pics of his johnson in a glass of wine to a lover.

Just what we need in an MP, class.

Love that wrap-up, Boris, wish it could be played on tele every day and night.

[village_person]

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@boris1gary wrote:

1987.....

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It is hilarious. We are still waiting for Hawke's earth-shattering 'promise' to kick in. Did he mean 2090?

[cherry*135]

"New laws in place are set to cause significant harm to low income and disadvantaged people in Australia. Among the major social security changes that are due to take effect in 2015 are:

• A medical review of 28,000 Disability Support Pension recipients aged under 35 under tighter impairment tables if they qualified for payments between January 2008 and December 2011. Around half (48 per cent) of those being reviewed by the under 35 measures have a mental health condition. An estimated 1.4 per cent (around 1,400 people with disabilities) will be moved onto a lower Newstart Allowance. This would leave them around $170 per week worse off;
  
  
• Apply ‘program of support' rules to DSP recipients under 35 and new compulsory ‘participation plans' with compliance penalties to apply;
  
  
• Generally limit DSP overseas portability to just 4 weeks each 12 months, saving $5 million;
  
  
• Limit of six-weeks overseas portability to student payments;
  
  
• Pause indexation of assets value of limits of all working age allowance, student and parenting payment from single for 2 years from July 2015;
  
  
• Pause indexation for 3 years of assets test free areas for all pensions (except Parenting Payment Single) from July 2017, and
  
  
• Axe relocation assistance scholarship assistance for students relocating within and between major cities from 1 January 2015.

"The first Abbott Government Budget contains billions of dollars in social security spending cuts that will lead to intolerable hardship for the poorest and most disadvantaged in the community."

[polksaladallie]

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@village_person wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

1987.....

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It is hilarious. We are still waiting for Hawke's earth-shattering 'promise' to kick in. Did he mean 2090?

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Hawke left out one word from his speech.  How long are you going to punish him for that?

[idlewhile]

Not since the money tap got turned off.

[village_person]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@village_person wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

1987.....

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It is hilarious. We are still waiting for Hawke's earth-shattering 'promise' to kick in. Did he mean 2090?

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Hawke left out one word from his speech.  How long are you going to punish him for that?

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I didn't write his speech on that day. Hawke had a habit of inhaling his own flatulence so all I can say is he was under the influence of a powerful 'cloud of flatulence'.

[idlewhile]

Just another Abbott hate thread, the ones the  left love so much.

Poor Labor, even watching the Qld electiion and that idiotic woman trying to find a reason for being is frightening.

The PUP party will score more seats than her pathetic attempt to win back some relevancy.

Not to worry she say's "everything will be better under Labor" omg!  the same mantra Shorten is going with, the feel good factor, the "fairness" mantra but no solutions to the mess they left behind.

Labor won't win in Qld.

[fourandsixpants]

The state of affairs is really pathetic in the world of politics. What chance do we as Australians have if this is what we have to contend with? I despair, I really do.

[idlewhile]

If you voted Rudd and Gillard in then you and are part of the problem, part of the left hate fest that is on here  every day, it spills over into every thread even if the thread is not a political one, part of the parlous rhetortic indulged in on here and by Labor hoping that this behaviour  will work for them.

The politics of popularity, celebrity, gender and the myth making.

If all the left have to offer is " the phony fairness mantra",  the don't worry "everything will be better under Labor",  well they have the money tree and the magic pudding don't they? so I can understand your despair. 

[pct001wine]

If you think the "left" have some sort of monopoly on infesting non-political threads with hate, maybe take a look at your mate poddster's contribution to the "favourite garden plants" thread.   Maybe it will provide you with a reality check.   Or maybe you agree with the comment.  Do you ?