And Tony will eventually realize that when all the Catholics migrate to the Vatican, these social ills will greatly diminish.

When Phoney finally release his costings, we'll get a glimpse of the future. Later, should he be elected, an audit will free him up to slash and burn much like Attila the Hun!

Phoney believes in the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest (for fittest read cunning and unscrupulous), and that 1% of people should end up with most of the nation's wealth. Like Howard, he will make life easy for the greedy and punish those whose minds embrace caring and sharing.

Yeah, advantage the rich and punish the poor is the foundation stone of the Coalition.

What a sick world we live in!

Q. What can we expect from a coalition government on social welfare?

A. Nothing

While the Coalition, Murdoch media and to a lesser extent the ALP love to demonise the unemployed, all three are rampant cheerleaders for policies that are guaranteed to increase unemployment and underemployment.

The bleeding obvious reason many people are unemployed and underemployed is because there are fewer jobs available than there are people to fill them. The now unavailable jobs have either: been casualised; gone offshore; been slashed by public service cuts and other austerity programs; disappeared along with now defunct manufacturing industries; been victims of corporate takeovers and mergers; been superseded by technology; or been located in regional areas repeatedly ignored and overlooked by city-centric government policies.

Another major reason for increasing unemployment, which successive governments and media organisations have never acknowledged, is that employed people are being forced to work longer and longer hours for no extra pay out of fear of losing their jobs - thus taking away potential working hours from the unemployed and underemployed.

But the political parties will keep pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into policing and punishing the unemployed for a situation that was never their fault to start with. Demonising the unemployed is not only stupid, it's expensive.

My guess is we can expect fewer people needing welfare under the Coalition.

...There was a time when the unemployed were forced to travel to wherever there was a job: Now a 457 visa holder does it for them!

...Wonder if there is any money in waxing surfboards?