By Chris Van Ingen
The Liberal party have always been known for putting the rich
ahead all other Australians but never have I seen such a dream killing budget.
This 2014 budget has got me praying that the TARDIS is real
so I can travel back in time 10 years and change my decision to join Mr Abbott’s
party because even though I found out our beliefs’ were completely opposite and
quit the party, after this budget I wish the Liberals were never part of my
history.
This budget attacks everything thing that I and the majority
of Australians believe in, affordable health care, education, aged and disability support, sustainable
environment and foreign aid. Nothing has escaped the Liberals machete except
surprise, surprise the rich.
Many economists and the other parties agree that our debt
level is nowhere near a crisis point because the Labor government kept us in a
good position throughout the GFC.
We all know governments have to make tough choices but why
is the Prime Minister taking us back to the Howard years and beyond, back to
the dark ages? When is he going to stop being the Liberal’s attack dog and
become a leader moving the country forward?
In thirty-one years of living with a disability I have had
thousands of visits to the doctor, over thirty admissions to hospital and
seventeen operations which my parents could not have afforded if the co-payment
existed then and pensioners cannot afforded it now!
If the government would open its eyes and look at the U.S., where
it’s clear this sort of health system doesn’t work because people delay going to the doctor which
then leads to the more expensive acute style medicine rather than a cheaper
preventive one and it’s $7 now but what is it going to be in the future?
Through my involvement with Global Poverty Project I know
small actions create big changes. So it doesn’t take a genius to see that proposed
changes to environmental and foreign aid polices will have a catastrophic
affect on the world and on how that world sees Australia.
On a personal note, I am actor, writer and motivation
speaker because I want educate and inspire as many people as possible but the Coalition’s
decision to join the Arts Council and Screen Australia will reduce our creativity
and pretty much kill my dream along with the imagination and dreams of the
nation.
Labor here I come! Thank you for this budget Mr Abbott
because it has forced back into the political arena to make sure such a dream
killing budget never happens again!
Vote 1 Labor at the next election!
“Remember to keep the wheels of life turning in your
direction!”
