Wayne Swan, the Federal Treasurer, announced Australia's budget today.
Just as I hear from my Drug and alcohol counsellor today that her position has been cut due to Federal Budgetary cuts to the sector, I read statistics from "The Age" newspaper online today (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) that ambulance callouts for Alcohol and Drug-related incidents are on the rise.
I read with interest that a fair portion also comes from people on prescription medication, and was surprised to see anti-psychotics up there, being one who takes them for schizoaffective disorder.
My counsellor works for an Eastern Suburbs community-based organisation which is entirely dependant on state and federal funding. There is massive demand on their services. They have had to cut their Family services and Youth services due to these Federal Budget cuts.
My counsellor works for an Eastern Suburbs community-based organisation which is entirely dependant on state and federal funding. There is massive demand on their services. They have had to cut their Family services and Youth services due to these Federal Budget cuts.
So what will this mean? Probably more domestic violence. More youth suicides. More suicides in general. More accidental overdoses. More kids dropping out of school. More job losses due to chronic addiction. More car crashes. More car licenses lost due to being over the legal limit. More carnage.
What does the Gillard Labor Government hope to achieve in their latest Federal Budget announcement? A government in surplus. An economy in the black. That wins votes. Doesn't matter that an economy in the red can still operate ok and not go into recession: ask any economist. But the Gillard government is unpopular and needs every vote it can get. And the perception that a Labor government can manage taxpayers money as well as the Right-Wing Liberal government could.
Forget about the failed Housing Insulation scheme which saw rogue operators taking advantage of unskilled workers putting bodgey insulation into homes who sought the rebate; forget about the botched "Building the Education Revolution" which saw unwanted halls being erected in schools nationwide.
No, no, no: Labor knows how to divvy out your hard-earned money. Just look at the wunderkind scheme of the National Broadband Network....just a shame only a small percentage of the nation will be able to afford to use it. Or would want to.
And don't think I'm some Liberal Brown-Noser: they are a worse pack of jokers than Labor are. They make life good for the rich and thats it.
I hate politics. I used to vote with a degree and hope and earnestness. Ha!!! I reckon if you looked Insincerity up in any decent dictionary it would read REF: Politician.
Not even the Greens get my vote. It's Hee-Haws all the way with me.
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