How's that for tossing all the eggs into one basket?
Poirot,
That's what they did & look what the Lefties have done to this great country. No more lefties in my basket that's for sure & you Left(ie)-overs can deal amongst yourselves & see how far you get before extinction gets underway.

rehctub,

"The age of entitlement is coming to an end."

Only for the chosen...

Take Joe and the pollies, for instance....

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/taxpayers-footing-bill-on-treasurer-joe-hockeys-15-million-canberra-house/story-fni0cx12-1227026624945

"JOE Hockey has defended his practice of claiming a $270-a-night taxpayer-funded travelling allowance to stay in a Canberra house majority-owned by his wife on the grounds that it is an entirely legitimate practice embraced by scores of Labor MPs.

The Treasurer has legitimately claimed $108,000 in travel allowance for 368 nights over the past four years including many nights for parliamentary sitting weeks where he has stayed at the Canberra house."

How's that for "Entitlement"?

Yep Rehctub, the age of entitlement is coming to an end.

The only question is how soon, & how far will it go. We still have the choice to do it for ourselves, or Greek like, have it done to us if we continue with our present wasteful ways.

Of course we have these lefty ratbags that think money grows on trees, but we also have hugely wasteful sectors that must be wound in. Welfare is just one of them, & probably not the worst.

We have hugely escalating medical costs, as we spend a fortune on high tech medicine, which is counter productive.

We have the crazy business of training nurses in universities, so they become half baked doctors, & we then require another layer of staff to empty bed pans.

We have a burgeoning & mostly useless higher education, sticking thousands at huge expense, through degrees that qualify them for nothing more than a clerical job, or flipping hamburgers.

The public service, [what a misnomer] could be reduced by 60% with advantage. Remember the cries when Newman got rid of 25,000 in Queensland. The world was ending they said. You know, in a couple of weeks no one knew they had gone, & work flowed more quickly with the reduction of in trays.

Then the NGOs, commissions, & committees, whose elimination would only be missed by the lefty press, who would not have meaningless findings to fill column inches in their publications.

Last but not least, we must close the ABC, & send that bunch of leaches out to work. I'd really clap that one.

There would be even less complaint, as the noisy ones would be busy earning their daily bread for a change

You are not being obsessional, now are you, Poirot?

The electors got it wrong did they? LOL

Dear Hasbeen,

You really need to get out more and read from
other sources than what's the current government
propaganda printed in News Corp Ltd. Where the news
is really limited.

Of course the government needs this budget -
by taking from the most vulnerable, health, education,
the disabled, et cetera, to pay for the miilions of
dollars to pay for new fighter planes (US rejects).
The Paid Parental Scheme, Mr Brandis's library,
MP's entitlements and other rorts,
the benefits to the miners and the polluters, and the list
goes on.

And of course get rid of the ABC - you'd rather have an
American owning media in this country, and telling you
what to think. We get it.

In the meantime the voters - are sick and tired of the
theatre of Commissions of Audit, horror budgets,
broken promises, no accountability, and some are going
for the vaudeville of Clive Palmer.

A ripe old mess!

Foxy, "A ripe old mess!"

My goodness, you do have a whole litany of beefs about Australia after all.

You are safe, educated, well-to-do and have travelled extensively. You should be thanking your lucky stars that your folks were offered sanctuary in Australia and took it gratefully.

Third World 'problems' of the educated elite, inflicted with cultural snobbishness and an over-developed (and inappropriate) sense of their own entitlement.

An whining elite who should get off their spreading behinds and go and help someone less fortunate. Put something back, please!