Alea iacta est

Foiled Again!

Captain Planet is predicting some reverse-Robin-Hood'ing...

AUSTRALIAN Greens senator Bob Brown says the theme of tonight's budget will be taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

Curses! He's got us there guys. That was the plan all along...

...except, except, for the point that cutting welfare is not taking from the poor at all. The money welfare recipents receive comes from...you guessed it...other people.

Shock, horror! If anything, its returning money to the people who earned it in the first place. Nah, we can't do that, can we, Bob?

Look Bob, I know this is difficult, and I know you are really heavily emotionally invested in a redistributive economic model, but at least try to understand this:

The less people on welfare, the better.

Ideally, there should be no one on welfare permanently*. It's there to help you out when you are in the shitty portion of your life, not to be a lifestyle choice.

And that's coming from someone who works in the welfare sector.

* I'll qualify this with a "except for people so physically or mentally disabled that are incapable of doing any productive employment." But that's not a large proportion of the population.

Posted by Quentin George at May 10, 2005 05:39 PM