Successive Govts have been the culprits of the financial woe that now betides Australian families trying to make ends meet.
Not the least being the Howard Gov't.

When Tony Abbott makes rounded remarks about Aussie battlers, in his obvious attempts in his budget reply speech to include himself in that category, he singles out miners for example, of whom 60% are employed these days on a casual basis in less safe and secure workplaces. Health care/nurses etc, who now work in under-staffed overworked conditions and shifts etc in a public health system downgraded, with less job security and income certainty. In exchange for an increasing cost of private health assurance, in a pay or die model of a health system for the end user (the sick person).

Privatised essential services delivering stunningly brazen increases in cost to the consumer, miles over the inflation index, with no wage rises funded by business to compensate. Instead, compensation is delivered by the consumer to themselves, in the the form of personal tax cuts or tax breaks for business, supplied by Gov't, from (the consumers) own coffers. Meanwhile the regulatory environment is a continuing and persistent free for all for Big business, and equally a dead end street for the consumer/worker, and ultimately whichever Govt they decide to elect.

Living standards will only continue to decline for most people because they can ; legally, despite Tony Abbotts decry that dis-incentive/aspiration, is recently gone.

Superannuation, in exchange for a fair dinkum pension when you retire, is perhaps an even bigger mythical benefit of the free market ideology. Beginning before Howard.

It, (aspiration), has been gone for a long time now, and the effects are starting to bite.

sadly poli-tricks is cyclical
the howard affect..will/has corrupted politics for years

juliar is trying to..out right wing the libs
and the libs can fein/fain..caring for the people
till he gets it

till the liars
run their course..
no change can be expected

to wit...even if tony got in
he is only pretending..just like juliar is pretending
truth is they only are doing as the public service..[inbred elites].. wants..[tells]..them to do...

the boys club adgenda

banko

[the bank allways wins]
own the two main/parties
media/education/law/war

you win

http://www.famguardian.org/Publications/GlobalSovHbk/GSHWorkbook.pdf

Apologies for the typo in my opening post, that should read:

"Living standards will only continue to decline for most people because they can ; legally, despite Tony Abbotts decry that incentive/aspiration, is recently gone".

...The increasing irrelevance of outcomes to people in the market economy of Capitalism, is likewise becoming increasingly obvious and painful to those same people.

divers diverse quote...""The increasing irrelevance
of outcomes..to people in the market economy of Capitalism,
is likewise..becoming increasingly obvious//

..and painful
to those same people...""

there comes the time when growth...via inflating the base
desroyes the capitalisation..ability..of the base...

then govt mantras of tickle down
just re-capitalises..the elite''s..[or those
at the top of the capitalist food chain]...

as the value of capital
of the poor dwindles..into less and less
and the middle classes slide into the lower classes

and the one [percent] lording it over
96 percent of the wealth..diminish even further into the less/er

under capitalism
capital wins every time
its time we put our capital into skill
but that would take a govt to not listen to the capitalists
but for govt to become the capitalist..with its fruits going to its people..

no commie-isms
no social-isms
no capitalism/con-sumerism to capitalists

its time to get govt doing
what the capitalists need to do..
but refuse to do

without claiming..all the spoils[cream]..
as well as govt's gifts...to themselves

lest we forget it was henry ford who said
a worker who cant buy ...what he is building/creating
wont by his own product...

[so he increased wages..
capitalised consumers]

capitalists have been buying up
the stuff...we need to consume to live

[its not enough they..despoiled our airs waters lands..
education/science/financial/baking/supply/services industries/systems]

Thinker2
What can I say, we are on the same wavelength and I totally agree with your summation.