John,
What would you do about it?
Harry
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John wrote:
>Quite obviously, the all (UN-)wise and all (UN-)knowing old Motor Mouth
>from Bath has been reading the tea-leaves, yet again. However this time
>his vitriolic, anti-working class rantings have gone too far!
>
>normally I simply delete any and all posts from that source as the author
>is usually full of pretentious English ' middle class' ignorance and
>indifference...a la ' Baroness' TINA (There Is No Alternative - to mass
>working class sackings, un-employment and penury) Thatcher. However,
>intrigued by the words "Sydney burns", I made the mistake of reading yet
>another heap of garbage, including the following
>
> >The forest fires are also worse this time because car-loads of young men
> >from the inner parts of Sydney are driving to the suburbs and starting
> >additional fires themselves ("most, if not all", according to a police
> >spokesman on BBC radio)....
>
> >The young men are welfare recipients. Clearly, they have little sense of
> >community. Australia has been immensely prosperous in the last few years
> >and has the most generous welfare system in the world.
>
> >I wonder whether there's a connection somewhere?
>
>I wonder whether there`s a connection somewhere between this latest load
>of puerile drivel and "a morning pot of tea"?
>
>With some 40 then 60 and now 100 separate fire outbreaks spreading across
>some 600kilometres over the past week, IF...SOME of the fires WERE started
>deliberately by "...car-loads of young men from the inner parts of Sydney
>(who are ALL?) welfare recipients (and) clearly ...have little sense of
>community", the question then surely becomes "What caused such violent,
>anti-social behaviour and alienation in these particular young men?
>
>Why didn`t "The Community" care enough about these and the hundreds of
>thousands of other young people across Australia (The Lucky Country) and
>simply throw them - like many of their older fellow-Australians - on the
>scrapheap of involuntary redundancy, un-employment, under-employment or
>casualised, low-waged McJobs, just as they are starting out in
>life? Clearly the politically and economically dominant elites of The
>Community (our ' leading' businessmen/employers, politicians and senior
>public service policy wonks) have little sense of 'community'!
>
>To assert that..."Australia has been immensely prosperous in the last few
>years and has the most generous welfare system in the world" further
>exposes the gross ignorance of the author. The "re-structuring" of
>virtually every facet of Australian industry and the "privatisation"
>(theft) of OUR Common-wealth public assets by local and foreign
>'entrepreneurs', 'leading businessmen' and other anti-social corporate
>criminals (our national airline - Qantas, the Common-wealth Bank,
>Common-wealth Serum Laboratories and thousands of other Federal, State and
>Local Government public assets and services), has resulted in an
>'official' un-employmment rate of 6 - 7% ..'among the best in the
>OECD'. The REAL or actual rate is more like 20%, with some 2 - 3 million
>Australian citizens now being forced to endure socio-economic
>marginalisation at or below the official poverty level, whilst those of
>the so-called 'upper-middle' and 'Upper Class' CONTINUE to grow "immensely
>prosperous".
>
>john foster
>Victoria, Australia
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