Quote (Plaguefear @ Nov 21 2015 07:42pm)
Every one of our homeless can get welfare payments through centrelink and most are homeless because of substance abuse, australian homeless are almost always homeless by choice unless it is very short term.
I say we help whoever we can, people are people, i do not value people of any race or religion over any other.
Our deficit is a non issue the murdoch media came up with to scare people into allowing the government to get away with murder, if we were so broke we would not give 9 billion dollars unasked for to the reserve bank, or a 900 million dollar tax break to news corp.
ur wrong m8
go outside and stop in the street sometime and talk to a homeless person......just a friendly chat only....and u will see that most are genuinely struggling due to some kind of unseen misfortune...
ppl get scammed in real life and lose their life savings and have nothing left....some ppl have partners/family who died and don't have any money cos the partner was the one making an income
we all make mistakes in life, and some are serious enough to make us homeless & desperate
and btw, the welfare can barely cover the cost of rent in some cities in australia, so then how do u have any money left over for electricity or food even?
and the deficit is real btw.....thankfully we are not as fucked up broke as USA (they are really in the shit, but the media has got that covered up nicely)
but we are still broke nonetheless and need to stop spending(wasting) money on less important areas
I'm all for helping ppl, but lets help our own ppl first huh