According to Joe Hockey the 'day of entitlements is over'. Unemployment benefit is an entitlement so there will be no chance of raising this paltry payment if the Liberals are returned to power next year.
Of course Hockey and Abbott, Bishop & Co couldn't live for a day on what they expect an unemployed person to live on for a week - thats why they voted for a MP's pay increase that gives them as much of an increase as the unemployed get for a year.
Oh! Thats an entitlement that is no doubt excempt from Hockey's reasoning. He was only referring to those without jobs, who are sick or disabled or aged. You can bet your next unemployment bank deposit that the Liberals will not have Hockey's slogan in the forefront of the next election campaign!
Social security entitlements here are a national disgrace in relation to the cost of living and average weekly earnings yet sadly both Labor and the Liberals are singing from the same song sheet on this. Read the Henry report and see just where Australia is likely to be heading - right down the Joe Hockey path if Treasury has its way.
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