cont'd ...

"It shows that if you bring up an argument that threatens
privilege and power you face the prospect of the argument
being refined to come back to vex you. But if you
destroy who's foolish enough to open his mouth in the first
place you reduce the chances of it happening again."

Dearest Foxy,

Welcome back - I hope everything goes well.

Of course, Duncan made the understandable error of confusing a tax cut with another welfare benefit - that, if other people got tax cuts, why shouldn't he get some sort of extra benefit on top of all the bits and pieces that he now gets.

So the question remains, dear Foxy: how much of a tax cut do you think he should be getting ? 10% ? 47% ? Personally, in his current circumstances, I think he should be reimbursed for all the tax he is paying, but that's just me, I'm such a generous bloke. Then, at least, he could start to pay for some of his children's support. Actually sixty thousand might go some way to do that.

A year or two of fruit-picking would do something similar. There's a lot of it in Victoria.

Love always,

Joe

Foxy

The Brisbane times is a paper started by Labor and run by Fairfax, the lickspittle company to Labor and the unions, who started this debacle in the first place.

Fairfax and the ABC took Duncan Storrar and made him a working class hero, after the truth came out, they all got egg on their faces and have been trying to rescue their PR disaster by portraying him as a victim.

Duncan Storrar is nearly impossible to defame with a continuous history as a drug addict, thief and otherwise violent criminal and ex jail bird, with an extensive rap sheet, who abandoned his wife to raise their son while she was dying of cancer, and who has spent his life bludging off those people that pay 75% of Australia's tax and begrudges them a tax break of 85c per day.

Foxy,

With hindsight I have to admit that I shouldn't have accused you of being sanctimonious when you might well have a strong belief that it is wrong to judge other people; many people do, and it is a Christian belief adhered to by some. I, however, believe that making judgements is necessary and normal for all of us, and so do many other people. In the case of Storrar, legal judgement has been made, and he has convictions. He is also a liar and a bludger, and that is clearly the judgement of much of the laity. And they are not necessarily "conservatives", as you suggested in one of your earlier posts in this stream.

I will continue to read your posts and to comment if I am interested in the topic, but I undertake to be more understanding and respectful to you.

Fox,

Did you leave out the link to that slanted article so that no-one could see the replies?

Here are a couple,

<[GatsbyMay 17 2016]

Disgraceful distortion of what happened last week.

Everybody agrees Duncan can ask whatever (self serving) questions he likes. But then the Left lionised the guy. It was the Leftists who painted him as a downtrodden working class "hero" (in the words of Q&A producer Amanda Collinge, who should resign). That made it entirely legitimate to put out relevant facts about the man: his criminal convictions, his non-payment of child support, his drug use etc.

The Left then became embarrassed that they'd championed someone like him and the best form of defence became attack: as usual they sledge the Murdoch press for having the temerity to inform readers about this new "national hero". We're all tired of childless sliming of Murdoch papers.

Like most Australians I agreed with the answers given by O'Dwyer and Willox. Notice that no-one refutes the points they made, rather again they just sledge.>

continued,

and,

<[LogicMay 17 2016]

Mr Storrar’s first world problems do seem insurmountable.

His taxpayer funded home, children, food and health expenses which put him above the living standard of 90% of the people of this planet are definitely not good enough and require rebellion to get more handouts.

Storm the Bastille!>