Joe Hockey wants entitlement - but only for the rich!

The remarkable and admired senator Rachel Siewert has this last week given up her time and wages to "try to live on the unemployment benefit" and for this I believe there is a statement of whose who is conscionable, real leadership politics. Rachel runs in as first as do the Greens for being so conscionable, empathic and aware. Joe Hockey doesn't realise what the majority of Australians think of him and his mean spirited t(o say the least) attitude and values, though these would surface if he were to ever even go the way he and his colleagues want to go. Anger at injustice is healthy and I meet too many people who are very outraged and justifiable, single and families living below the poverty and all unemployed for reasons they had no control over. Their efforts at gaining work bare no fruits because the stats are distorted the hibs aren't there unless you;re an IT specialist or a Plumber or Electrician. The people I meet at a specific community centre didn't have income insurance and they are living on vegemite soup and noodles, regularly, not a one week stint like senator Seiwert. They also have no indulges and are not aquisitive nor swayed by affluenza (as if they could be if they chose to.) There's a lot in this article and I commend the author, as more and more Australians are growing aware of what the Liberals and nationals stand for and more and more are saying "enough is enough we keep losing whilst the top end of town is even given Welfare, it's not Australian and it's not fair and it''s not on". We are a very divided nation, and the cake is all for the rich, whilst the crumbs are left for the disadvantaged. A national disgrace. There's discrimination on the basis of income in this instance and it would be heartening to see the Discrimination Board take this kind of work on, as in Australia, a collectively rich nation, it would have many cases to deal with. For now, if people like Hockey continue to talk of these kinds of fearmongering and scapegoating the less fortunate they face the negative consequences of doing so. Shame, shame, shame. Does Hockey realise many whp have had very much have and do lost/lose this in a very short time due to savage brutality of market forces that the rich monopolise and if he does is he so sociopath and sick he thinks that's what Australians will vote for, a savagely brutal federal government that doesn't give a damn. He's wrong to think there's no people power today, as John Pilger rightly said there's now three Superpowers and one of these are the People's Voices. They are rising up and will not be intimdated by bully's like him. What a mercenary Joe Hockey (and his ilk) are and where are their social consciences? What does he get out of being so dark and discriminatory toward the less fortunate? What if his wages were lost, his pension cut to shreds and he had to live as senator Rachel Siewert has been trying to live this past week. What if he were suddenly thrown into a termianl illness? would this still be his attitude and values for all Australians who don't fit into the top ten. The Nazi's wanted to get rid of the disabled and they did, yet they faced the dire consequences; and isn't getting rid of the disabled meagre welfare livlihoods the same thing? Likewise the other meagre benefits that cause ill health and thereby cost the government in the long term. Shame, shame, shame Joe Hockey and the Liberals. Bully's who take and never share, give or care are out of vogue. Graham