John Linton
.....but consigns Australia's wildlife to oblivion by withdrawing a lousy $A10 million of 'small grant money'.
According to this morning's news some one million "pensioners and carers" around Australia will open their letter boxes this morning and find cheques for an average of a thousand Australian dollars from the Australian taxpayer scattered around like confetti at a bush wedding courtesy of Krudd's ideas of command economics (last popular in various Eastern European Bloc countries during the 'cold war' but now restricted to North Korean understandings of economic rationality). Krudd has taken your, and my, taxes and sent the money to around a million people telling them to go and fritter it away on alcohol and cigarettes and anything else that takes their fancy. A new high in even his amazingly high standard of complete stupidity and one more step in his panem et circenses method of government in his Hell bent race to see how fast he can return Australia to the level of debt bequeathed by the last Labor governments to the Australian people as a reward for being so stupid to elect them.
It took Witless Whitlam less than three years to bankrupt Australia and Hawke ("no Australian child will live in poverty") and Keating ("the recession YOU had to have - but I'm fine and will just slip out and buy another $A100,000 French Empire clock") less than 10 years to rack up $A100 billion in federal debt (and that was when a billion actually bought something more than a one hour 'pensioner' splurge at the local liquor store). Krudd's current run rate indicates he's on track to beat Whitlam's record.
Meanwhile, starting late last week some 1,500 charitable institutions whose individuals have given enormous amounts of their own time free for many years to work within their local communities to encourage by example as many members of those communities as possible to give up some of their time to rescue their local fauna and flora from extinction will also be receiving mail from the same Krudd...only their correspondence will contain no cheques; just a churlishly written piece of cr** telling them to go stuff their and their local community efforts up their a**** as don't they understand these are tough economic times demanding that their elected government act frugally and responsibly and therefore their pitifully small support grant (that they have been receiving for many years to pay for a part of their regeneration program) will not be continued.
I didn't think it was possible for me to despise that otiose piece of sh** any more than I did already but Krudd has reached new levels of grandstanding unreality that even I didn't think the pathetic moron of being capable. Just how incredibly stupid, forget about uncaring, do you have to be to remove small grants from charities that have long track records of needing, and spending wisely, small amounts of tax payer money in their local community's economies to give endangered native fauna and flora some better hope of survival? Is it because these greedy and stupid people p***away the small amount of grant money on booze, cigarettes and fast foods? Of course they don't - they spend it on seedlings (grown in local nurseries), local fencing contractors, small ads in local newspapers, petrol in local service stations etc, etc .......in other words if Krudd is so enamoured of wanting money to be passed around to be quickly spent in local communities then:
what f***ing better way is there to do it than to continue to provide grants to real people in real communities around Australia who have a long track record of spending every cent very carefully in their local communities doing really good things?
Are liquor stores, tobacco counters at supermarkets and trashy present boutiques more deserving of having money showered on them that these:
http://www.exetel.com.au/fauna_feat/
and tens of thousands of other similarly endangered species????
How is it possible for these morons, posing as a government of Australia, to actually cut off less than $A10,000,000 worth of annual grants to 1,500 small, predominantly local community based, charities pretending that they don't have the money to continue the support when they have just p***ed away $10 BILLION on fags and booze and one off Christmas trash (presents) to "quickly put money into the economy"!!
I can't write any more today - I'm too angry.
PS: If someone runs into the Gillard over Christmas would they try and persuade her that education isn't either spelled or pronounced "ejjerkayshun" - it's an embarrassment for the Minister Of Education to pronounce her portfolio in such a, well let's be frank Julia, manner indicating a lack of education.