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How can there be NOTHING of the public mood for a newspaper that is meant to be the working mans paper?
My answer:
Abbott & The Daily Telegraph editors
@catsnknots wrote:How can there be NOTHING of the public mood for a newspaper that is meant to be the working mans paper?
Because not everyone has the same public mood.... I speak to the public every day... very few have had a negative thing to say about this budget... even the old pensioners I see at work don't think it is that bad... even my mum and step dad that live on a pension and have a few medical concerns that means they will be paying the $7 don't think it is a major problem...
there are a few things they want to change but overall these people are ok with it
Well I beg to differ. In the retirement community where my mother live a large proportion feel that it's a terrible budget. Even those who are not directly affected, have family who will be. They are especially up in arms about the $7 fee for visiting their doctors, for having blood tests done, and for any radiology work needed. Some of them don't visit doctors more than 10 times a year so will not get 'free' visits.
Many are long term Liberal supporters who vow if Tony Abbott is up for election again, that they will not be voting for Liberal. Also if Joe Hockey is hanging around hoping to be treasurer they will definitely avoid voting for the Libs.
Gwen from next door, at 84 years young, is especially upset and worried for her great grandchildren who are hoping to go to university in the next year or two. Their own parents are not well off financially. She also worries about the ones who will be looking for work in the years to come. Plus her own financial position isn't the best, she owns her own small home but otherwise lives from pension to pension.
So while some of the people you talk to are happy about the budget, there are a vast majority who are not, and this is evident when you hear people talking on the street.
In a workshop I attended this week of 20 people, there were a number who had been LNP voters who said they were "shocked" at what had come out of the budget. One told us he was more angry at the way the LNP had, he believed, turned on their own supporters. Said there was no way he would vote LNP in future and a few of the other LNP voters agreed. The common theme was that "no-one expected this". In our industry there will be huge cuts and these people are extremely frustrated that it is going to affect the industry overall. They are saying it just doesn't make any sense to discourage people.
I also work with a few younger people and they are very vocal in their displeasure of what has come about. They talk of their friends who are also dissatisfied. It was interesting that one of them said they had been thinking of going back to uni, but was now reconsider ing it. She mentioned she was concerned about what would happen if she went for a home loan down the track with a huge uni debt and what would happen to her debt when she took time off to have kids. It would affect her for the rest of her life. Interesting how they are thinking it through.
So I guess it depends who you talk you.
