PM Howard deserves it?

On the back of MP pay increases, PM Howard said he knew the pay rise would not be popular but said it was deserved, particularly compared to huge salaries for business executives and other professionals. He will receive a $21,000 rise to $330,000 a year.

On July 11, opposition leader Kevin Rudd announced a Labor government would allow for greater powers in monitoring supermarket pricing amid voter concerns regarding increasing grocery bills. It may be an election stunt which doesn’t amount to much but at least its non offensive, unlike a parallel attention seeking bid labelled as a response to Aboriginal child abuse. In response to Mr Rudd, Howard and Costello were at their usual arrogant best.

In summary, they asserted keeping inflation low was the best way to impede rising grocery costs and that their governance had kept inflation to half the rate of a previous Labor government. Then there was the familiar war cry “Australian families have never been better off than they are now” from the excitable, jittering little baboon.

This just doesn’t add up in the real world. I’m forced to question whether the government is ever anything but 100% deceptive. The only component of our economy under the Howard government which has failed dismally to inflate, is the wages of low income earners.

I suggest we confine the PM within a reality TV show, remove his identity, then give him a Newstart Allowance and watch him strive to house, feed, clothe himself and pay other living expenses with little more than $200 a week. I reckon he might be a bit of a weak link.

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