Citizenship test

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I have been poorly paid and reasonably well paid and I have never resented income tax and national insurance.

Yeah me too, but these days I see how hard Dazza works and I think it's not fair.

Last week he had his usual fortnightly pay which is about $5k gross, and also a project which was worth about $5k gross, but he only got to bring home about half of that. Less than actually.

I'm talking about a man who works about 80 hours a week in a job that he loves in general, so he's lucky that way, but still, we're still only considered upper middle income earners here, yet we get not a cent in aid from the government at all. We get no medical assistance at all. We pay full price for everything. Dazza supports two kids who aren't his biologically because their father firstly wont pay and secondly lives in another country now, so there's no recourse. I do what I can with bits of odd jobs here and there and some part time work, but it doesn't make much difference.

Then there are people (many) who complain because they have been cut off from unemployment benefits or been ASKED by centrelink to get a job even, and they bitch about it. Meanwhile, we work our arses off to pay the bills so that we can give our kids the same things the multiple child single parent families living off welfare get!

It sux.