Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the campaign would be a misuse of taxpayer funds.On the other hand, we are happy to let them gouge those of you who are not mummies and daddies till your ears bleed and your small intestine is tied in a bow around your liver.
"This announcement adds insult to injury for Australian taxpayers," he said.
"Australian mums and dads are being asked to pay for the Government to advertise why mums and dads should pay higher electricity prices."
Way to keep the Labor faithful faithful, Mr Hunt, even here in this dark forest where the light on the hill is lost.
Quotation is from here, where you'll see that Labor can't get anything right to save themselves either.
Yes indeed: as a community we have developed some very strange notions of virtue. And some very strange linkages between virtue and entitlement.
ReplyDeleteBTW, compared with my bills in Sydney, I'm paying about double for electricity here in Adelaide.
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Yeah I don't like being part of a class the politrash like invoking. How about (1) STFU about mums and dads and working families (2) actually put money into the places, such as public education and childcare, where it's needed.
ReplyDeleteOh, that would be turning from talk to action...
"why mums and dads should pay higher electricity prices" because the prices are going up regardless and everyone is paying higher prices?
ReplyDeleteThis DINK couple here (not by choice, but that's another discussion) are supposedly part of the comfortable elite and yet we struggle to pay our mortgage every month. And I'm sick to death of being ignored by the govt as if we deserve no consideration. It was the same when I was single, and will go on all my life. And presumably, if I try to retire on my super (seems unlikely, but I still have many years), I won't even get to be considered as a pensioner either!
ReplyDeleteF you, politicians, who act like you're only worth consideration if you've managed to breed. F you all.
And us breeders begin and end in one and two people households, often for many more years than living as a nuclear family.
ReplyDelete"Families" is just a buzzword (mis) calculated to make voters feel warm and fuzzy, but forgetting the above and what the other commenters said, they fail.
Such a shame Patrick White is no longer with us. He would have treated Labor's paeans to "mums and dads" with the same contempt he reserved for characters who used the term "kiddies" -- always his most damning marker of philistinism, sanctimony and saccharine-coated cruelty...
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Yah. Shitful. At least we childless, singles, aren't about to be slugged. But can we hold him to it?
ReplyDeleteF'wit.
re your question elsewhere- if wiki doesn't know yet ...
ReplyDelete'The book's title is attributed to an African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child." The saying and its attribution as an "African" proverb were in circulation before it was adopted by Clinton as the source for the title of her book. It originated from the Nigerian Igbo culture and proverb "Ora na azu nwa" which means it takes the community/village to raise a child. The Igbo's also name their children "Nwa ora" which means child of the community. It has been in existence in Africa for centuries. Indeed, the saying previously provided the source for the title of a children's book entitled It Takes a Village by Jane Cowen-Fletcher, published in 1994.[6]
The authenticity of the proverb has been the subject of some controversy, however, as there is no evidence that the proverb genuinely originated with any African culture[citation needed], although numerous proverbs from different cultures across Africa have been noted that convey similar sentiments in different ways: "While it is interesting to seek provenance in regard to the proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child,' I think it would be misleading to ascribe its origin to a single source.... Let me give a few examples of African societies with proverbs which translate to 'It takes a village...': In Lunyoro (Banyoro) there is a proverb that says 'Omwana takulila nju emoi,' whose literal translation is 'A child does not grow up only in a single home.' In Kihaya (Bahaya) there is a saying, 'Omwana taba womoi,' which translates as 'A child belongs not to one parent or home.' In Kijita (Wajita) there is a proverb which says 'Omwana ni wa bhone,' meaning regardless of a child's biological parent(s) its upbringing belongs to the community. In Swahili, the proverb 'Asiyefunzwa na mamae hufunzwa na ulimwengu' approximates to the same."
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Thank you!
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