Reasons to be Cheerful
The ersatz Federal Government presented its first budget on Tuesday night and I sat through the broadcast feeling more and more angry. Frankly, there was very little to be upset about. Most of the releases were relatively reasonable. It wasn’t back to the bad old Labor days but still something was gnawing at me that I couldn’t fathom.
Then it hit me. Its ok to hate the rich people again.
And now we even have a category of richness above which it is socially and politically acceptable to spew hatred upon.
$150,000 is now the acceptable limit of vitriol.
Now I personally do not earn that figure. Though I plan to one day in the not too far distant future. I would be letting myself and my family down if I didn’t at least aspire to improve our financial position.
But as I sat and seethed, I suddenly realised that this was a typical old fashioned Labor Government with typical old fashioned Labor ideals and prejudices. I also realised that the conservatives have their traditional supporters back. Anybody that earns over $150K or wants to, now knows that the ALP hates them and wants them to die slowly and painfully.
Well the last bit was for me to make me feel better. They don’t necessarily want them to die, otherwise who is going to pay for their bloody stupid ideas?
No, what they want is for the “rich” to start feeling guilty again. We have just gone through 13 years when it was ok to get more. When it was not only encouraged, but supported for you to want to better yourself, your family’s income, your standard of living and take chances. Knowing full well that you would be entitled to exactly the same support as a single mother of fifteen illegitemate bastards, if it all went pear shaped.
Now the government wants us all back in sackcloth with gravel through our hair for daring to want to improve our standard of living. This means it is entirely ok for me to start hating them with a vengeance again. This means that I can feel morally superior to the ALP again, not merely because it is true, but because it is right.
I went to bed feeling so much better.