this is a excellent budget

[*mrgrizz*]

for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.

and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me

[boris1gary]

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@crystal**flake wrote:

Az I do worry about the people who are really stressing about it and I worry about those who just are unable to help themselves but I'm sure they will get looked after.

We are a welfare nation and it DID have to be fixed.

Does the budget affect me and my family, no.  I'd say it will down the road later, with the cost of living going up, but in reality that goes up all the time.

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we are not a welfare nation, that's ludicrous.

[cherry*135]

How are the unemployed supposed to pay their course fees - govt says they must earn or learn? Also the disabled.

NSW TAFE

Students on concession fees paid $53 to attend TAFE in 2012; in 2015, the cost will be up to $240.

For a diploma of electrical engineering - now priced at $1514 a year, and usually completed in two years - the fee will skyrocket to $8190.

Concession prices will be eradicated for diploma and advance diploma courses, including for students with a disability, who will be referred to the student loan system.

"The federal government are saying they're going to get people off the disability support pensions. Now the [state] Minister for Education is not going to give the same level of support [offered] in the past for disabled students coming to TAFE.

"The state government and the federal government aren't working together on this one."

[joz*garage]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

Joz wrote

but seriously, this day and age the knowledge & techology that is accessible to woman - can choose to have a child or not according to their affordability

i totally agree with mrgriz's opinion on this.

Joe I was having you on because you only mentioned women 🙂

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oh ok, it was really a reply to donna emphasizes herself as a woman she dosen't and does have a choice having kids

it didnt make much sense

shouldve ignored it really

[lionrose.7]

[freakiness]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Ah yes quite right I went back to check. Poor woman.

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I felt for the housing staff too. They had not even been contacted. The woman was in hospital in a fragile state when the story was aired about her being a slack tenant.  The housing staff were rather upset that she was confronted with that on top of everything else. I think the contractors got thrown off the public housing contract.

[icyfroth]

Point being we can't continue going down the path of borrowing more and more money to cover our national debt. Ultimately, debt has to be repaid and if it can't be, there's insolvency and bankruptcy.

And if ppl are howling and teeth-gnashing now about the cuts (which are designed to help us back into solvency) , how are they going to go when there's...nothing.

Like in the depression?

[cherry*135]

Major failure of the Budget is it cut spending but didn't increase taxes (revenue).

[nero_bolt]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.

and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me

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Agree a very good start to ween this country off the welfare teat 

The welfare and hand out mentality doesnt think its good..... 

Sad to see how attached to govt hand outs and welfare this country has become

[boris1gary]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.

and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me

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Agree a very good start to ween this country off the welfare teat 

The welfare and hand out mentality doesnt think its good..... 

Sad to see how attached to govt hand outs and welfare this country has become

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New narrative needed, can't defend the indefensible, try a different angle, maybe they have a new pamphlet.

[crystal**flake]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@crystal**flake wrote:

Az I do worry about the people who are really stressing about it and I worry about those who just are unable to help themselves but I'm sure they will get looked after.

We are a welfare nation and it DID have to be fixed.

Does the budget affect me and my family, no.  I'd say it will down the road later, with the cost of living going up, but in reality that goes up all the time.

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we are not a welfare nation, that's ludicrous.

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I'm sorry I feel we are, lots of families dont actually pay tax because of the welfare they are getting.