What's wrong with inequity? Well, one only needs to be able to compare some of the super bloated waistlines that bloat out our T.V. screens from time to time, and compare that to those starving infants with their emaciated bare little bodies to understand what's wrong with inequity! Or even take a trip to Townsville and look into the desperate eyes of former smelter (mortgaged to the hilt workers) to understand what's wrong with inequity?

And something a former slave owner, might have inquired of a slave? Alan B.

Garbage Alan B., & even more garbage

Those who worked for the Zinc smelter were part of the problem. Overpaid by a factor of at least 2, they have done very well, with little effort, other than bloody minded union actions. They will now receive huge redundancies for what, turning up for work most days, & being damn well paid for it.

As for people earning their living, I agree farmers work hard if not smart, I've loaded a few bails myself. That bloke throwing bales onto that truck would have been loading hay by pitchfork onto a horse drawn implement, if someone smarter than him, had not used his brains to earn his living. It took brain work to imagine & develop petroleum powered farm equipment, trucks & bailing gear.

Hell if some smart bloke had not figured out how to produce iron, your farmer wouldn't have had much hay to load anywhere, ploughing with a wooden plough behind an ox, does not produce much.

It was someone working with their brain that built the factories to build all the gear we need today, & employ all those too dumb to organise their own employment.

The man who is smart enough to imagine & build the factories & run them profitably, employing thousands is entitled to become wealthy doing it.

Garbage Hasbeen? Well I bow to your in depth knowledge and expertise on Garbage given little else is produced in any of your posts?
Alan B.

What’s so bad about inequity? From the point of view of the people who are not on the receiving end of it, nothing.

Let me make a prediction;
After the budget is presented tonight there will be total uproar about
who gets what and who pays what.

It will all ignore the real problem.
The politicians are all promoting growth more growth and still more growth !

This is the "source" of all their largess.
Well it won't happen. Growth was yesteryears world.
We are now coming into our zero growth world and all the post budget
argument will be about nonexistant GDP and how to spend borrowed money !

We need to plan for a sustainable economy that will have to live at
a lower standard. How much lower will depend on how sensible both the
public and the politicians are in their expectations.

The end is nigh for the centrelink chequebook.

'The end is nigh for the centrelink chequebook.'

Not true Bazz, not until they steal every cent from those who have worked for their money.