Federal Budget

[stui magpie]

[HAL]

What else do you take?

[Morrigu]

[Mugwump]

[Pies4shaw]

But it helps us as a society to dehumanise the rich and blame them for our lot.

Amended to provide a counter point.

Telling the rich that displays some degree of irony, Stui. But thanks for looking after me.

[HAL]

Oh don't mention it.

[ronrat]

And they bump up the price of rollies. That will only encourage more home grown pot and or moonshine. Or tobacco plants. And who is going to conduct these tests for drugs. The bozos at places like WISE are near useless. You are going to have people turning up to take tests for other people all over the place.WISE rold me they were not interested in me because I didn't fit the profile for special treatment because I was a white single male without a disability.

They may as well appoint Stephen Dank to head this mob for what it is worth

Centrelnk staff are not medically trained. The cost of increasing their pay and upslilling them would cost more than they save.If they send them off to GPs themedicare costs will blow out. ANd as I said the recepient can simply send a proxy to a busy bulk billing clinic to piss in the bottle for them.

[Culprit]

All these welfare crackdowns and at the same time staff have been cutback. I know where the jobs will come from. Extra security to keep the peasants calm whilst they wait for hours and a plethora of portaloo's outside each one as the peasants can't use the internal facilities. I have an idea, portaloo with an access code that is linked to your social security number and when you enter there is someone waiting to take your sample for the said drugs tests (more jobs). Hang on we are on a winner here. We can spend millions to save thousands.

[Skids]

Bill Shorten says Labor will only back the government's 0.5 per cent increase to the Medicare levy to Australians in the top two tax brackets, who earn upwards of $87,000.

The federal opposition leader has also committed to keeping the coalition's budget repair levy on high-income earners, and says his party will back a $6.2 billion tax on the big banks

- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stor ... m0Evh.dpuf

I think that's fair.

[stui magpie]

If Shorten had an IQ 10 points higher he'd qualify to be an imbecile.

[Skids]

If Shorten had an IQ 10 points higher he'd qualify to be an imbecile.

Yep, certainly get a gig as a muppet.

[Culprit]

You know how bad things are in Australian Politics when Shorten is the clear alternative.

[David]

To be more accurate, Albanese is the clear alternative. Shorten is just the one we're stuck with.

[David]

[partypie]

Young people are already adapting to the drug testing regimes in the workplace and on the roads by abusing prescription drugs, which are cheaper, in fact subsidised, with alcohol thrown in