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| Shane: Hung out to Dry |
G'day Petals,
We are in 2017 entering the fulfilment of the dystopian ideology of the
The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe, the IPA.
A new medievalism and economic
replication of the dark ages is happening where serfdom, bondage and even slavery will be
the order of the day.
Governments, military and police forces will just be the
control agents of the populace for the various multi-national oligarchs of
Energy, Finance, Agriculture, Propaganda/ Entertainment and Health.
Not a new idea being
expressed but I never thought I would see the day when this putrid dystopian future is
staring us in the face.
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| Glass |
Just like the now
late and under-performing NBN that
Truffles has made such a mess of Xtian (?) Porter, Minister for Cruelty, excitedly babbles that Centrelink's new automated debt recovery methods are working "incredibly
well" and lies that it is only attracting a tiny number of complaints
(only estimated at 20%), while purportedly recovering about $300,000,000.00 of taxpayer
money.
Low-income Australians have not only received letters of demand
for thousands of dollars in recalculated welfare debts in the Christmas and New
Year period as the agency's new compliance system data matches income
information with other government records, including at the Australian Taxation
Office but also advice to seek assistance if they feel suicidal.
Centrelink managers being in the firing line
have discretely hung up on the public, hiding their office phone numbers and
email addresses after one customer of the welfare agency went public with how
he bypassed Centrelink's notorious customer service system and contacted a
senior public servant directly.
The Dept. of In-Human Services, says it is
"not practical" for senior bureaucrats to take phone calls from
members of the public as it probably distresses them and distracts from rooting
out evil-doers and finding the funds for the $50 Billions in tax breaks for those who pay no tax.
Criminalizing people is only one of the
things that this ruling rabble excels at, the other being its excessive rorting
of parliamentary entitlements.
Recently, Minister for Dismantling
Medicare, Sussan "Biggles" Ley and her husband jumped from Sydney to
the Gold Coast to "visit some patients" on a RAAF flight that cost
the taxpayer $12,000 because "commercial flights (at around $200.00 PP )
are unsuitable." And
notwithstanding the minister's $1,790,000.00 of expenses claimed during the
past 24 months she also managed on the
same day to "not plan " on buying an $800,000.00 apartment at auction
from a Liarbril party donor who also happens to work in the health business.
Attempting to show that
"There's-Nothing-To-See-Here," Barnyard Joyce, Deputy Prime Miniature
and Land Clearing Assistant came to Biggle's succour by providing the
distraction that imported prawns are being banned to assist in stopping the
decimating spread of "White-Spot" amongst Prawn farms: that this move
was asked for fully two years ago by the industry when the disease was first
noted and not such a problem only goes to prove,
"There's-Nothing-To-See-Here," also applies to what's-between-the-ears
as well!
Unfortunately, the very people deserving of criminalization; tax
avoiding multi-nationals, time and again go free, as it is far easier to target the already vulnerable
who cannot afford expensive lawyers and who don't fund the LIarbril Party.
And from "The Independent Australia"
comes these little gems that we should all recognize and expect more of in the
coming months....
The
quest to restore falling profit
rates has seen a certain
uniformity of policy responses worldwide, often called neoliberalism.
These
policies include:
cutting government
spending, especially to the poor and less well off;
doing little or nothing to address existential threats like climate
change or immediate threats such as domestic
violence;
undermining and hamstringing unions;
cutting workers’
living standards, either directly through reducing real wages or indirectly
through cutting back on the social wage (health, education, transport and so
on);
extending the working day so that more and more unpaid labour is extracted from workers;
cutting company
taxes;
subsidising big
business operations to the tune of tens of billions of dollars;
spending billions on infrastructure
for big business (but not for the
benefit of workers);
cracking down on welfare
recipients;
going easy on big
business tax avoidance;
winding back the eligibility for various government payments, including
the aged
pension; and privatising government instrumentalities.
Unless there is a mass upsurge of
demonstrations and strikes, and a consequent revitalisation of the working
class and socialist movements, the long slow death agonies of capitalism could
throw up "solutions" that hark back to the dark days of the
1930s.
It is time to organise. It
is time to fight back.
Hoo-roo Possums,
Shane.
