You want to talk about homelessness, Don Aitkin? OK boy.

My unwed mother who worked for a living and I came damn near to "homelessness" in the early 60's and we lived mainly bedrooms rented by pensioners. Although assessed by the government as "most in need" of accomadotaion, we waited 6 years for a government flat in a block of 84 units. We moved in with all of our furniture. A folding card table, an ironing board, and a small black and white TV. The flat echoed because we had nothing to break up the sound. We slept on the concrete wrapped up in blankets.

Our next door neighbors were well off British migrants who had lovely furniture which they had imported from Britain. They had waited two years for their government supplied flat. I will never forget my mother saying "The bloody government thinks more about foreigners than they do their own people."

And that is the charge I level at you, Don. as another pro "refugee" bleeding heart, you think more about foreigners than you do your own people. Which is why I despise people like you so much. When the Sudanese "refugees" starting flooding Australia, people who seem to always be a problem and a burden, the Australian government went around Sydney suburbs buying houses for them. And then they gave them $15,000 per family to buy furniture. I'll be you supported that to the hilt because it made you feel good. And I will bet that most of them are still on the dole and will remain that way forever.

And then you want to feel good about homeless people so you suggest that Australians are heartless because they are so many of them? Screw you. Money does not grow on trees and our welfare budget is already the biggest slice out of our economy. It will keep increasing until it is unsustainable. Shut down the "refugee" program almost entirely and only give refuge to those people who will not become an endemic burden on us.

The money saved can be spent on our own homeless

LEGO,

A sad situation you experienced, but one that should bring people like Don Aitkin and quite a few OLO posters down to earth, but probably won't, because they have spent their lives wrapped in cotton wool. Born during the war, I had a relatively lucky childhood. My father came from a poor family, but my mother was able to to build a brand new house for 700 pounds. One of my school friends was envious because I had two pairs of shoes.

There was real poverty those days. The 'poorest' live like kings in comparison these days - on welfare, that didn't exist then. The whiners and whingers now wouldn't know if their arses were on fire.

I thought Don's short piece was pretty good.

We have been fortunate to benefit greatly the last 70 years, but the cosy days are over.

increasing poverty and homelessness will explode should the current reliance upon debt ever end.

Our govts are pretty impotent. We rightfully side with the US, but we merely hope the US knows what it is doing with the rightful backlash against the CCP

My parents along with mum's parents, fled the
Stalinist terror that occupied their native
land of Lithuania and found themselves in the
United Nation's refugee camps of displaced
people after World War II in Germany.

They joined the first wave of displaced Baltic
people who were invited by then Labor Prime
Minister Arthur Calwell to come and settle in
Australia to help solve the acute labour shortage
at the time. My parents like so many refugees at the
time had to sign 2 year contracts with the government
and had to go wherever they were sent.

These were difficult times for everybody. My parents
lost family members, their country, everything they
valued. However, they worked hard for everything.
And did not ask for anything from anyone. I was
born in Bathurst, NSW and grew up in the Western
suburbs of Sydney. Although I also had roots in
the country from Bathurst, to Windsor, the Hawkesbury,
the Hunter, Wagga Wagga, Albury, Wodonga.

I loved the early days of life in Wentworthville/
Parramatta. Growing up I did not realise we were
poor. Family was everything. I managed to work
full time, raise a family, and finish uni - with
the love and support of my husband and family.

I firmly believe that the present is linked to the
past. I believe in the importance of culture,
education, and hard work.
That was instilled in me by my parents. And it's
something I have passed on to my children.

The sort of poverty that modern generations cannot even imagine was alleviated by cheap power, generated by fossil fuels. Hence, even the poorest, and those unable or unwilling to work can live a respectable life.

But the virtue signallers and posers want to put a stop to that; and when there is no wind and the sun isn't shining, there will be no expensive power, let alone cheap power. Most of the population will then be poverty stricken and really have something to moan about.

If your family were made refugees by Stalin and his Marxist comrades, Foxy, one wonders why you are so enamoured of policies the neo Marxist are now using to white ant out the country you fled too? Here is a Chinese woman in the USA indignantly ticking off her school board who want to introduce "critical race theory" to the kids at her kid's school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwli4WdZmI

"Critical race theory" is what you support, don't you? You sent me a link to this anti white propaganda and I read it. Now it is your turn.

The Chinese woman survived the Chinese "cultural revolution" and she sees "critical race theory as being the same thing. The only difference was that in China it was the middle class which was demonised as "the enemies of the people" Today the neo Marxists demonize white people, especially old white males.

It is happening again and you can't see it. When the neo Marxists take over Australia in the same way that they have taken over the USA, using incoming waves of third world immigrants as their ever growing electorate, where are you and your family going to run too next?

Don't think the neo Marxists want to demonise white people? Well just keep your eyes wired shut and don't look at these youtube video's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cgWILpNKoY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0yQRAbi5uc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhVbv7qpBKY