Re: Scumbag Rudd !

On May 16, 4:45 am, "newzseek http://aussieseek.proboards25.com/index.cgi";
<scoop...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scumbag Rudd !

It's bad enough that working families

will be worse off under the Rudd

Government's Claytons tax cuts, but for

Kevin Rudd to turn his back on the

pensioners and the disabled is absolutely

scandalous.

According to my calculations, this

group, many of whom are way below

the poverty line, are at least $60 a week

worse off since the show pony and his

vaudeville troupe took over the

Treasury. Thank God for Brendan and the Libs.

At a time when the Government is

swimming in money, rather than squirrel

away $21.7 billion for the 2010

election, anyone with a degree of

compassion would see now is the time

to give a little bit back to the people

who contributed to the living standard

which most Australians enjoy today.

The Labor Party has always accused

the Howard government of being

mean-spirited. Mr Howard and Mr Nelson
has more

compassion in one fingernail than this

multi-millionaire Prime Minister has in

his whole selfish body.

With this budget, Mr Rudd has set

out to do just one thing to prove he is

a fiscal conservative, and to hell with

the real battlers. No. YOU can Piss off
Rudd.

We were better off and more secure
under Howard

Tom Griffin, Pambula, NSW

They built this country up and now you're letting them down

*


Australians now know what the Rudd Government means when its ministers
rabbit on about working families. When Australians reach pension age
they are no longer working, no longer part of a working family, and
are only reluctantly and inadequately supported. Like old machinery,
they are on the national scrapheap.

The generations aged 65 to their 80s and 90s experienced the
Depression years and World War II. They and earlier generations built
the country, fought for it and were the engineers of the postwar
nation-building boom. They paid for the war with their service, their
labour and their taxes.

They built the public infrastructure - roads, railways, water storage
and irrigation systems, an electricity grid, universities, the public
education and health systems - and administered it prudently so that
they built up reserves for its maintenance and development.
Opportunities for personal saving were not very great, but by the
mid-20th century, Australians had built a nation, prosperous, generous
and caring.

From the late 1960s, when the postwar generations of governments and
administrators came into power, they stripped the public
infrastructures of their reserves. Then they demanded and took
dividends from the electricity authorities, the water supply systems
and the rail systems. They spent the public savings of past
generations on current expenditure.

The consequences are that our public infrastructure is rundown; the
ability of the bodies that run it to repair and reform is nil and
their staff are demoralised. Governments, federal and state, refused
to levy the taxes sufficient to fund current expenditure or renew
infrastructure. Thus the call to privatise.

The free market (more like a lottery) rules in the name of spurious
efficiency and spurious freedom. Hence the Treasurer's "nation
building" budget. He should have called it nation rebuilding.

Yet those who built the nation are dishonoured in their old age with
inadequate financial support and public indifference, while "working
families" earning up to $150,000 a year are still the recipients of
middle-class welfare, and self-funded retirees like myself remain the
beneficiaries of extraordinary superannuation largesse and other
concessions.

The Government admits there has been inflation in the costs of rents,
food and petrol. Yet pensioners and those on disability allowances
received no consideration in the budget. They are expected to survive
on about $13,000 a year and a few concessions.

Joan Bielski Wollstonecraft
.

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