Aussie Welfare system to be abolished

[Lexi Persimmons]

Australian budget ends “Age of Entitlement”

15 May 2014

This week’s Australian budget is a stark warning to workers internationally of the sweeping social reversal being demanded by international financial capital in every country. In what has been depicted as the “lucky country,” which seemed to escape the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, the framework has been set for dismantling every aspect of the welfare state established following World War II.

The Abbott Coalition government’s first budget will have an immediate impact on the lives of every section of the working class, especially the most impoverished. The screws have been tightened on welfare payments across the board to ensure that the unemployed, the disabled and the elderly wait longer, receive fewer benefits or get nothing at all. Working-class families are being stripped of tax concessions. The principle of “user pays” has been extended to visits to the local doctor and other medical services, as well as to giving universities free rein to make massive increases in student fees.

The budget sets a number of new benchmarks that will be exploited to impose similar measures internationally.

* The pension age will be progressively lifted over time to 70—an unprecedented measure in an advanced industrialised country. Many elderly workers, physically unable to work or who cannot find a job under conditions of mass joblessness, will be condemned to years of destitution on unemployment benefits.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014.../pers-m15.html

[Lexi Persimmons]

[Lexi Persimmons]

cut lisa off first.

[Lexi Persimmons]

[Dirty Beatle]

Yeah well a lot of stuff still has to get through senate

Good luck everyone

[Dirty Beatle]

I think there's a lot in the budget that they are trying to distract on with this.

[Dirty Beatle]

A lot of absolute rubbish that will probably get passed while everyone bickers over the scraps

[Dirty Beatle]

And meanwhile the whole health system just got fucked in the ass

[Lexi Persimmons]

when they cut you off, you won't be able to afford internet access which is good for Rubynet.

[timmy]

slippery slope on the doctor charges, this year it will be 7 dolars, next year 15 dollars,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FUCK

[timmy]

having 0 GP fees was so good why ruin that

[steveyos YOLO]

You can come live with me lisa when you become homeless

[Dirty Beatle]

You can come live with me lisa when you become homeless

Thanks.

having 0 GP fees was so good why ruin that

What are you babbling about

[timmy]

What are you babbling about

General practitioner who diagnoses symptoms. Recommends medicine or specialists, can give prescriptions. Was free until now.

so you're bitching because you have a 7 dollar copay on doctor visits

[maks]

your healthcare isn't actually free barry it's paid for by your taxes which means you're paying as much as an american would to go to the doctor whether you go to a doctor or not

actually we pay more regardless since our healthcare system is full of unnecessary waste and overblown salaries and budgets and insurance against lawsuits

[maks]

not sure where you're getting that from, I haven't seen a doctor in 5 years and I haven't paid a dime

[maks]

no michael moore movie is going to convince me otherwise

[Genital Doli]

Thanks Obama

[Plug Drugs]

we are entering an age where pretty much if you don't have a decent-paying job already or money saved up, you're completely fucked
getting into debt is the worst, silliest thing you could do. Word to the wise

[asux]

You can come live with me lisa when you become homeless

me to

[asux]

we are entering an age where pretty much if you don't have a decent-paying job already or money saved up, you're completely fucked
getting into debt is the worst, silliest thing you could do. Word to the wise

just do crime free food free bed free doc free power its not that bad

[timmy]

We pay a levy on medicare, now its going up like 20% an on too Gp visit fees. Its just going to go up from here. I bet ppl still praise abbott and his shitty party

[asux]

We pay a levy on medicare, now its going up like 20% an on too Gp visit fees. Its just going to go up from here. I bet ppl still praise abbott and his shitty party

i ha8 the lot of them .scum thats all thay are

Australians are retarded

[maks]

We pay a levy on medicare, now its going up like 20% an on too Gp visit fees. Its just going to go up from here. I bet ppl still praise abbott and his shitty party

I do, the government has no place cramming health insurance down your throat. They're not our parents, we don't need them to support us, and the world would be better off if people like lisa and plug drugs were starving to death out on the street.

[herpreader]

is it ok I eat good while those niggas starvin

[Autistic Spectrum]

they better fix it or lisa's will invade the usa looking for free ipads and weed