And it starts again...
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miriam_eI was digitising a video for some very nice people who manufacture horse treadmills (Classic Treadmills -- I'm showing them how to put together a homepage for their business). While I was setting up the video I heard through the TV tuner something that made my heart sink. It was the beginning of the next propaganda round against the poor here in Australia.
The right-wing politicians do this every time they ruin the economy. They eye off the social security money greedily, and launch a propaganda campaign against the poor bastards who've already lost their jobs or are having difficulty landing work, or are sick or retired: those on the dole and pensions.
What they do is get the radio chat shows, TV "current affairs" programs, gossip mags, and newspapers to find a few people who rort the system and they splash it all over the airwaves and front pages. "Look how these people steal your taxes!" is the usual cry. What they never mention is that 99% of people on the dole or pension are there because they genuinely need it, and the few who do scam the system are a tiny constant; they don't suddenly increase in numbers when the right-wingers run the ship of state aground.
Don't be taken in by the bastards! Don't let people around you echo this shallow crap, because after they attack those most vulnerable, you are next target.
Of course people shouldn't be running social security scams, but the agenda is not to catch a few crooks, but to further screw all those who have already been worst hit by the damaged economy. It has nothing to do with justice. It is a simple trick like the distraction that magicians use.
Not only does this kind of thing further damage the most vulnerable in society, but it tears deep rifts in our society by pitting one group against another. It damages us all. Howard and his band of liars need to reverse some of the damage they've done, not blame the victims and steal what little the poorest have.
The right-wing politicians do this every time they ruin the economy. They eye off the social security money greedily, and launch a propaganda campaign against the poor bastards who've already lost their jobs or are having difficulty landing work, or are sick or retired: those on the dole and pensions.
What they do is get the radio chat shows, TV "current affairs" programs, gossip mags, and newspapers to find a few people who rort the system and they splash it all over the airwaves and front pages. "Look how these people steal your taxes!" is the usual cry. What they never mention is that 99% of people on the dole or pension are there because they genuinely need it, and the few who do scam the system are a tiny constant; they don't suddenly increase in numbers when the right-wingers run the ship of state aground.
Don't be taken in by the bastards! Don't let people around you echo this shallow crap, because after they attack those most vulnerable, you are next target.
Of course people shouldn't be running social security scams, but the agenda is not to catch a few crooks, but to further screw all those who have already been worst hit by the damaged economy. It has nothing to do with justice. It is a simple trick like the distraction that magicians use.
Not only does this kind of thing further damage the most vulnerable in society, but it tears deep rifts in our society by pitting one group against another. It damages us all. Howard and his band of liars need to reverse some of the damage they've done, not blame the victims and steal what little the poorest have.
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Remember when...
Date: 2005-06-15 07:34 am (UTC)I got news, guys. Pretty much everybody have stopped looking to us and started learning the lyrics to "Advance, Australia Fair". Better start getting your shit together. You're the people everybody's going to want to be like.
Hell, you're already doing auto racing right, something we haven't been able to grasp.
Re: Remember when...
Date: 2005-06-15 09:51 pm (UTC)Nope, only our politicians seem to be into car racing. Every city the Grand Prix is held in here makes a big loss out of it. But somehow the politicians think the "prestige" makes it worth it. Only the Bathurst 500 has a big following, but that has become almost a tradition which has grown from the bottom up, not something imposed from the top down. But I'm the wrong person to talk about games as I don't indulge in games of any kind... not even computer games... not that I hate games, just that I never really saw the point. I can understand other people playing games (kinda), but one thing that has me positively baffled is people watching other people play games.
We are told that Australia is a sporting nation -- that we love sport. And you'd really think so seeing as every newspaper, every radio and TV station carries hefty portions of sport. But the fact is that in Australia every week more people go to art galleries and museums than go to sporting events.