The latest public opinion poll for Julia was not good. For some reason Australians like the Libs more than Labor.
Paradoxically they like Julia better than Tony Abbott. Don't they realise that a vote for the Libs gets you the set of steak knives as well? You can't have Libs without Tony, or Christopher Pyne for that matter. Why isn't that enough to turn most people's stomach?
But what it all means I don't know. And as there is nearly three years before we have to think about this I couldn't care less. Although having said that, I do enjoy seeing Tony Abbott in opposition all the time thinking he should be head prefect instead of that stupid ranga girl. `
The polls also showed we favor the flood levy. Not by a big margin and possibly only by the margin between those who have to pay it and those who don't.
Most of us are in favor of someone else paying instead of us.
It's called democracy, I think.
Down in the cheap seats it's hard not to feel for the poor dears being asked to stump up the $5 dollars a week max most will have to pay. And that's even though we know that it's the equivalent of Amanda Vantsone's famous hamburger and a milk shake. Although one wonders if that is all Amanda spends on hamburgers and milk shakes but let's not go down that road.
Suffice it to say, I wouldn't want want to have her and Kim Beazley in front of me at the-all-you-can-eat-buffet.
Where were we? That's right, the levy.
I am in favor of it if only because of the sport one gets reading the whingers whose self awareness doesn’t extend as far as listening to themselves.
In The Australian, a safe haven for anti Gillard whingers, we had a wonderful yarn the day after the levy was announced. Some cashed up bogan in Brisbane was banging on about how her boyfriend was an electrician and they had estimated he had given $11,000 in kind during the flooding and was wondering why he should have to pay anymore. What sort of people sit down and work out how much their volunteer work was worth “in kind.”?
Not sure all those wonderful young people I saw lined up in their wellies and overalls and carrying buckets and mops as they waited to be bussed to the worst of the flooded areas in Brizzie, were totting up how much this was costing them “in kind”.
I wondered about how much in kind work the selfless sparky had done as most people in Brisbane were still standing on fruit boxes to keep their heads above water. I imagine the extent of his “in kind” volunteer work amounted to telling people not to turn their toaster on if it was underwater. And $11,000 in kind sounds a lot doesn’t it? But only if you haven't done renovations lately. Explains the cost overruns in the BER too I suppose.
Of course the sparky's girl friend had to go and spoil it all further down the story by owning up that as she didn't earn enough she wouldn't be paying the levy anyway. And I thought this sparky should change accountants. If his existing one couldn't shape his income tax in such a way as to show he had run at a loss last year and was, therefore, not eligible for the levy then he wasn't trying.
These whingers give the lie to the big-hearted Australians chipping in. Especially when I see surveys that show that those who can least afford it give the most as a percentage of disposable income.
And I love the way that when asked, they suggest that instead of them paying a levy the money should be sliced off the hide of the poorest paid members in society by cutting back on benefits.
A subset of this is that Victorians shouldn’t have to pay for Queenslanders who weren't insured . Aaaaaaaaargh get me my slime gun. And should someone suggest cutting the tax allowances on company cars or taxpayers money to private schools, the squeals will be heard at the South Pole. They don't like paying tax this lot but they love middle class welfare and see it as a right.
Never seen a Government grant they didn't like.
And while on the subject of the obscenely rich and bloated members of our society check this out http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/executive-women/rinehart-digs-her-way-to-top-of-rich-list-20110203-1afk7.html Or this, http://www.smh.com.au/business/an-opportunity-missed-on-mining-super-tax-20110214-1atq1.html It's a little, run down of the profits the mining companies have made exploiting our non renewable resources. Who can forget the sight of Twiggy Forrest and Gina Rinehart at that anti mining tax demo last year? Billionaires United will never be defeated. Who can forget the sight of Clive Palmer period? Why are we putting up with this crap?
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