Well.. not so much media-watch as getting shouty at the awesome coverage over at The Australian that needs some attention.
First up we have some whiny white people…
Balancing act makes for some hard choices:
An angry Ms Allardyce last night said this budget would make her reconsider her vote.
“She is a woman and I thought she would understand the pressures in the workplace,” she said of the Prime Minister. “Maybe Gillard should have a child.
Oh, the “Gillard don’t have kids” crap surfaces again. Go fuck yourself.
“We have made the choice to better ourselves. When I came to Australia I worked my way up and sacrificed a lot.
We grew here, you flew here Ms Allardyce. Why do you hate Australia. Adapt to our way of life. You can’t expect handouts. Go back to where you came from. etc…
The Allardyces both work full-time and together earn about $200,000 a year. That makes the Dutch-born working mum rich according the federal government. She doesn’t feel that way.
“Food, clothing, gas electricity — it all adds up. The more money you earn, the more you have to do for it. It is not as if I have a cushy job.”
I can juggle all that AND a sizable drinking habit on around $400 a week, I think juggling it on $200,000 a year shouldn’t be hard.
So whiney wealthy white people aren’t happy with the budget and The Australian is giving them space… moving on.
Tony Abbott attacks ‘class war’ budget and says Coalition may oppose some welfare cuts
TONY Abbott has signalled he may oppose middle-class welfare cuts, branding Wayne Swan’s fourth budget an attack on aspirational Australians.
The warning came as the Greens also said they would reserve the right to seek changes to some budget measures.
The Opposition Leader said the raft of cuts to families earning up to $150,000 were a form of “class war” that hammered everyday households.
“up to” has a very different meaning to “over”.
“I am instinctively against these budget cuts to families,” Mr Abbott said.
Because Abbott is PRO-family.
“Why is this government always targeting people who want to get ahead? Why is the government against the aspirations of people?”
If you’re earning $100,000 a year, I think they are well past the “getting ahead” stage of aspiration. Besides, we’re not talking about taxing them more. We are talking about welfare. Money given to them by the government! Not exactly class warfare. But on planet Tony, cuts to welfare for upper middle class families is akin to communism. I think if you’re earning $100,000 a year, I don’t think it is unfair to expect you support yourself. Just putting it out there.
Milking the rich in postcodes of affluence
WAYNE Swan is taking money from the folks in the nation’s wealthiest postcodes so Labor can look after its traditional supporters and keep on side those middle-income families who determine elections.
Put the budget vibe on a T-shirt and it would say “Milk the rich, lift the poor, tickle the middle”.
If you are living in postcodes 3944, 2027, 6012, 4007, 5006 or 7005, the Gillard government has put a big target on your back.
Now who’s turning this into a class war?
