With pensioners recently fighting for a couple of years to get a meagre $32 a week increase to the paltry pittance that the pension has become as inflation and the wages / prices spiral flys away out of sight, they have been told that this is a generous move by the government, pffft!
While the sledging and personal slurs and innuendo flail from the lips of each side in the parliament particularly during question time and debates, behind the scenes there has been some pretty handy getting together to discuss the ministers pay rise that's going to come to them; note I said is going to rather than may, and i did so because the independent tribunal or commissioner (who is paid by the government) has decided that a pay rise should be forthcoming and neither side are going to knock it back.
It reminds me of way back when someone was telling us we all need to tighten our belt and that life wasn't meant to be easy, and how that angered the community so much that they were voted out at the next election.
Its funny isn't it that when a pensioner in this lucky country is only worth a bag of prawns a week, or a carton perhaps, the ministers will get a rise that is a jar of good caviar or french champagne, let them eat cake!
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If there was an integrety test to apply to politicians, mostly they'd be weeded out during their cadet years, I think.
Politicians at State and Federal level like their poor relations the councilors, seem to have their head in the trough alright and when they are asking the rest of the taxpayers to pay upmore and more ways, you really have to question why they are there.
What does it matter to Rudd , who's wife is the name of their company for legal reasons I expect, along with some high profile ex ministers as well I think, when they have more money than the average person could count and regularly brag about it too on a business that is based on and in government money handed to them to place people in jobs, not rocket science but you have to be in the know I reckon because that how networking works isn't it.
Getting people to do government jobs, being paid for it by the government, and having contacts there doesn't sound like a conflict of interest to me, but then I'm just a stupid voter.
The fact that Rudd wil get millions after he is voted out and the Taxpayer will fund him for many many years to come even though he and his wife have made millions out of the taxpayer over the years makes you wonder just how the whole privitisation of the jobs service happened anyway, and how public people in service and ex ministers ended up owning the industry, prior knowledge?
Yes the pigs are definately at the trough.
there are pigs at troughs at all levels, and they learn early in the party system, that being a part of it and learning to conive and scheme is how you get ahead.
Once you get voted in you just have to grab what you can as fast as you can without coming to the notice of the voters.
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