SMH – MORE than 110,000 Sydney households concentrated in the city’s north, north-west and key inner suburbs will be caught by the Federal Government’s new $150,000 benchmark for identifying the undeserving rich. Census figures show that one in 10 Sydney households had a gross income of more than $3000 a week in August 2006, putting them above the new income cut-off for family benefits announced in this week’s budget. [snip] Salary surveys by recruitment firms and unpublished census data show that a coalminer married to a police officer, an electrician married to a primary school teacher and a power plant operator married to a paramedic would all earn more than Labor’s $150,000 benchmark.
Back during the election campaign, Labor was banging on about working families, working families this, working families that, everywhere you turn. Too bad if you were a couple or single or divorced, buy a whistle and start whistling. After his glorious victory PM Dudd was promising to ‘govern for ALL Australians’ and when his minions were questioned about who exactly is making up these ‘working families’, they were quick to bullsh*t us that working families covered just about everyone. Now you know why leftists can’t see how gay marriage undermines the traditional family, they have no clue what the hell a family actually is. Read the rest of this entry »
