Wednesday, May 11, 2005

The Budget

Treasurer Costello has delivered yet another budget for Australia. As usual there is some good news and some bad news.
"If you are able-bodied and you are of working age, which is 15 to 65, then you are expected to look for work if you are capable of it," Mr Costello said."
For those of us who were promised the lure of early retirement, the opportunity to work harder and more productively for a shorter period and then a well earned rest while we were still young enough to enjoy what remained of our lives this comes as a blow.

Now I suppose we will have to feel unpatriotic if all we want to do is to enjoy our lives rather than continue to keep slaving away so that we can help the companies that employ us continue to make the earth-shattering profits that they have been making in the last few years.

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