Left would rather wreck than work

[nero_bolt]

 Way to many welfare leaners and takers  in this country now days

AFTER so irresponsibly dancing with his eight-year-old son in his office on budget night, and compounding the offence by ­allowing his wife to wear an elegant $750 Carla Zampatti dress, that cigar-chomping capitalist Joe Hockey made a speech. Towards the end, the Treasurer used the stirring phrase: “We are a nation of lifters, not leaners.” 

It was an echo of Robert Menzies’ brilliant Forgotten People oration of 22 May, 1942, a paean to the middle class, the “backbone of the nation”, those self-reliant Australians who provide “the intelligent ambition which is the motive power of human progress”.

But judging by the savage reaction to the government’s first, rather moderate budget, Hockey’s assessment of the national character was wishful thinking.

The truth is that we are at the tipping point at which we switch from a nation of lifters to a nation of leaners. Right now only about half the country pays more in tax than they receive in benefits. They are the lifters.

And between 40 and 50 per cent of voters receive their income directly from the government, either in the form of benefits or because they work for the public service, according to the Centre for Independent Studies.

After six years of Labor profligacy, winding back the entitlement mentality is a huge task. No one is grateful for handouts but they scream when they are taken away.

Of course, it wouldn’t have mattered what kind of budget Messrs Hockey and Abbott brought down. Most of the feral reaction, like the weekend’s protest marches, was pre-arranged by wreckers who can’t stand a conservative government in power.

There are no depths to which the wreckers won’t stoop, from attacking Joe Hockey’s family to manhandling conservative female politicians arriving to speak at universities, to calling for the assassination of the PM.

This week, union leader Tony Sheldon, Labor’s national vice-president, even called his troops to war, advocating intimidation, blockades and civil disobedience.

“We must stand up to corporate money influencing politics,” he told a Transport Workers Union conference. “Using vehicles to block roads, sit-ins, go-slows, hundreds of trucks descending on Canberra — we’ll do it if we have to.”

Totalitarian violence is all the new Australian left has, which shows the bankruptcy of their arguments.

• Miranda Devine
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• May 21, 2014 12:00AM

[donnashuggy]

Silly me, I thought it was a spelling error

[boris1gary]

mmmm, so what is the below, left, right, building or trashing - just asking? 

Australia’s own history proves that Abbott and Hockey’s vicious budget cuts are absolutely unnecessary, because the government has the power to issue extra money to grow the economy, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood declared today.

“Abbott and Hockey choose to lash the sick, the poor, the unemployed and the elderly, because they choose not to use the power of national banking,” Isherwood charged.

“And they don’t reject national banking because it won’t work; they reject it, because it will break the private banks chokehold over the economy—the private banks which they serve.”

[boris1gary]

And between 40 and 50 per cent of voters receive their income directly from the government, either in the form of benefits or because they work for the public service, according to the Centre for Independent Studies.

proof please

[fourandsixpants]

to OP

What FULLTIME JOBS? Where exactly? ....not just 4 hours a week.

[icyfroth]

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@boris1gary wrote:

mmmm, so what is the below, left, right, building or trashing - just asking? 

Australia’s own history proves that Abbott and Hockey’s vicious budget cuts are absolutely unnecessary, because the government has the power to issue extra money to grow the economy, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood declared today.

“Abbott and Hockey choose to lash the sick, the poor, the unemployed and the elderly, because they choose not to use the power of national banking,” Isherwood charged.

“And they don’t reject national banking because it won’t work; they reject it, because it will break the private banks chokehold over the economy—the private banks which they serve.”

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Oh so you're taking notice of CEC's newsletters now? Last I posted that, you were lampooning them.

So are Labor going to take CEC's advice as well?

[boris1gary]

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@freakiness wrote:

Who is Left?

Male or Female?

Under 30 or over 30?

Does he/she have a last name or is Left the last name?

If so what is the first name?

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I have come to the conclusion that the "Left" according to the gutter press is anyone who is not them, them being the top 10% income bracket, the big banks, the private health industry, the Business Council, mine owners...oh and those that represent them, I have probably forgotten some. So the "Left" according to the gutter press is the majority of Australians - workers, pensioners, the unemployed, the disabled and everyone that fights for our rights. Excellent, then that means the "Left" are in the majority. 

[boris1gary]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

mmmm, so what is the below, left, right, building or trashing - just asking? 

Australia’s own history proves that Abbott and Hockey’s vicious budget cuts are absolutely unnecessary, because the government has the power to issue extra money to grow the economy, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood declared today.

“Abbott and Hockey choose to lash the sick, the poor, the unemployed and the elderly, because they choose not to use the power of national banking,” Isherwood charged.

“And they don’t reject national banking because it won’t work; they reject it, because it will break the private banks chokehold over the economy—the private banks which they serve.”

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Oh so you're taking notice of CEC's newsletters now? Last I posted that, you were lampooning them.

So are Labor going to take CEC's advice as well?

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no just asking, my personal view of the CEC has been posted before, just wondering what other posters views on the above are, especially those that are praising the budget.

[fourandsixpants]

to OP

        WHEN this current government get KICKED OUT

     I don't even want them representing Australia in opposition

[cherry*135]

" by ­allowing his wife to wear an elegant $750 Carla Zampatti dress"

Who writes such nonsense as this in 2014?

[icyfroth]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

mmmm, so what is the below, left, right, building or trashing - just asking? 

Australia’s own history proves that Abbott and Hockey’s vicious budget cuts are absolutely unnecessary, because the government has the power to issue extra money to grow the economy, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood declared today.

“Abbott and Hockey choose to lash the sick, the poor, the unemployed and the elderly, because they choose not to use the power of national banking,” Isherwood charged.

“And they don’t reject national banking because it won’t work; they reject it, because it will break the private banks chokehold over the economy—the private banks which they serve.”

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Oh so you're taking notice of CEC's newsletters now? Last I posted that, you were lampooning them.

So are Labor going to take CEC's advice as well?

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no just asking, my personal view of the CEC has been posted before, just wondering what other posters views on the above are, especially those that are praising the budget.

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Not everyone agrees with every part of the budget. Certainly nobody wants to see the aged pensioners or disabled losing their benefits, but most can see that the new government is making every attempt to claw a way back to surplus after the previous government left it with gaping, yawing empty coffers.

Certainly they would do well to take the advice from the CEC, but I can't see the private banks and coporate raiders letting that happen can you? No Labor government would prevail against them either.

So if you think taking Abbott out and putting Shorten in will solve the problem, it won't. It will simply be more of the same old same old, business as usual, just different heads.