One group who no longer represents the workers of this country is the Labor Party. They are pretty open on that point, just look at the legislation they have put through, the cuts to services they have made and the debt they have run up.
They occasionally pretend to be for the average person when it suits them but over all they are in it for themselves and their ideology.
Other groups that aren’t for the workers are the unions that are affiliated with Labor and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) itself.
While funding the Labor Party under the pretext of gaining influence for the benefit of union members it seems some union officials are trying to gain safe Labor seats for themselves in parliament.
Why do I say that you may ask? Unions have been alienating their members with a lack of action on real issues. Meanwhile they will donate member money to any cause that will make a union official look good or say they support controversial legislation and policies regardless of what the members think.
Ged Kearny, the current leader of the ACTU rocked up to parliament with a petition with 12,000 signatures calling for a price on carbon. 12,000 signatures. There are many times more that number as union members but with 12,000 signatures Ged claimed to be acting on behalf of union members.
No one I know was consulted but somehow Ged is representing us all. Don’t know how Ged worked that out and I don’t know how many of those 12,000 are from union members but somehow she’s representing us.
Ged has also joined the call for Superannuation funds to be used to build infrastructure needed by the country even though that’s not the role of Superannuation. Why would someone who is supposed to be representing the workers call for a very despised price on carbon and for workers retirement money to be taken from them?
The Labor Party wanted a carbon price and to use Superannuation funds for infrastructure. Coincidence Ged feels the same way regardless of what union members think?
Can anyone say ‘safe seat in parliament’?
Other Labor affiliated union officials are supposedly gnashing their teeth and wringing their hands trying to work out why Labor is making cuts everywhere and costing jobs.
It’s obvious why and if you don’t know ask your members, they know all too well.
Labor is borrowing $100 million per day and are taking Australia down the same path as Greece and Ireland by raising a debt that is not needed and will never be paid back. In fact Labor seems to present massive debts as a sign of success and hide the real impact through selective accounting. They brag that they can afford to service these debts as if somehow we will be impressed.
Billions of dollars are leaving the country to service (not actually reduce!) debts we don’t even need to have in the first place so I for one am not impressed.
Services are strained to the limit and hospital waiting lists are blowing out. These problems could be fixed with the billions of dollars that are leaving the country.
Now Labor are behaving as if the Rudd/Gillard leadership squabble is ‘important’ when in fact it’s a very sad sideshow unbecoming of even politics.
All of a sudden Rudd and Gillard are sounding like responsible people with statements that government requires consistency, consultation etc.
All of a sudden Rudd and Gillard are sounding like responsible people with statements that government requires consistency, consultation etc.
How about they actually practice what they preach?
There are noble admissions of “squibbing” (politicians using childlike words, I wonder why?) some of the hard decisions. Well they were squibbed due to the lack of consistency, consultation etc. from all parties involved.
And on the ‘stretching things a bit’ front the federal debacle is being blamed for undermining the election campaign Queensland’s Labor premier Anna Bligh for the upcoming state elections in March.
That is indeed a stretch of the imagination, Anna’s done it all on her own by taking a prosperous state with a reasonable cost of living and driving it straight into economic ruin with a massive debt with no gain for to show for it.
The aforementioned groups and people seem to have their own interests at heart first and foremost.
I left comments on some union sites and they have deleted my comments and barred me from posting. My language was civil but I did tell the unions they appear to be hypocrites for whining about Labors cuts while fully supporting Labor financially.
I’m a union member but they don’t want to know what one (and likely more) of their members think.
I went to the Rudds 2012 site and asked what is Rudd going to do about the massive debt Labor has run up. Again, censored.
These left wing groups don't seem to like being accountable to anyone. Unions are supposed to be for their members but blatantly censor and ignore them. Labor is supposed to be for the workers but does everything to take from them and hurt them.
And while there are people who have the idea they are entitled to keep some of their money that concept is a very strange notion to many unions and governments because they seem to believe other people’s money is for them to spend. Labor has actually spent the money in advance, they’ve borrowed it and future generations of Australians will have to pay it back.
This may be a longshot but the aforementioned Labor leadership debacle could be a scam like a lot of other things they have done. If they play on the sympathy factor for the original ousting of Rudd there’s a chance Labor could just squeak through the next election while many are caught up in the emotional return of Rudd who was never actually voted out as prime minister.
Remember, they act in their own self interests. A change in leadership could bring down the government meaning an early election. If you’re caught up in it all you may forget about the carbon price, the debt and all the other Labor debacles when you vote.
So please remember all this next you actually go to vote. The people who (when convenient) claim to be there for you are actually taking from you. A lot of them have never done a hard day’s work or struggled financially.
They are lowering our quality of life and even putting at risk. But just remember, if you are dying because you’re stuck on a rapidly growing hospital waiting list, Labor can afford to service the debt they have raised with the money they could use to fix the problem.
