Harden up working families!

I’m really starting to get sick of the fucking “woe is me” attitude of people who want the government to hold their dick throughout their existence at the urinal of life.

A story in The Age today looked at the magic $150,000 mark which the government nominated as the cut off point for the baby bonus means test and Family Tax Benefit B.

For a start no one is claiming that families on a combined of $150,000 (which is 2 1/2 tims the average salary) are rich, however they are not exactly doing it tough and should be able to go through life, have children and educate them without hand outs from the government.

The Age story looks at the Scibberas Family of Mill Park who bring home $150,000 and “certainly aren’t doing it tough”.

However Mrs Scibberas says the cap should be lifted to $200,000 and complained that her only gain at this week’s Budget was through the tax cuts – what did she want, a fucking yacht?

Mrs Schibberas says, “There doesn’t seem to be any reward for people who have put the hard effort in.”

What reward? Why? Working hard and earning good money to send your kids to good schools and provide a comfortable lifestyle for your family is reward enough. It’s no one’s fault but yours if you’re living beyond your more than reasonable means.

It’s the people who have to decide between paying for their kid’s school camp or the weekly shopping who should be getting all the money we can give them. 

I find it ironic that it was a conservative government, hell bent on keeping its filthy grip on power, that has turned middle-class Australians into welfare whores, who think they are the first generation to have children, buy a house and make a better life for themselves and therefore need all the help they can get.

While I hate the phrase “working families” it’s nowhere as damaging to this country as the term “Howard’s battlers” which has made a generation of well-off middle class people actually believe that battling meant not having a new car or sending your kid to a private school.

Instead of obsessing with the selfishness of people on very good incomes why doesn’t The Age visit a family trying to survive on or below the average wage to put things into perspective.

Harden up you whingeing fucks!

Note: I’ve never been on the dole even when out of work; I gave up Auststudy in favour of working part time (because it was shit) and I managed to change careers, pay off HECS, have two children and build a new home (we’re talking in the past eight years) without the benefit of a fucking baby bonus or first-homebuyers grant, on a fraction of what I earn now – which by the way, when added to Mrs Wah’s income is still well shy of $150,000.

Do I want a medal? No, which is my fucking point.