There is something inherently wrong with our national priorities if we allow Crisafulli's Liberal National Party to support mining and development interests, limiting women's reproductive options and depriving hungry children, writes editor-in-chief Michelle Penny.
It takes a special kind of cruelty (or is it a heartless monster?) not only to not accept an initiative that would help feed hungry children, but also to invest time and energy in actively opposing it.
In a move he says will save parents $1,600 per child per year for more than 326,000 students, Queensland Labor Premier Stephen Miles recently revealed his government's plan to provide the state's schoolchildren with age-appropriate meals. lunch time.
This is certainly a positive step when up to 700,000 households have experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months in the Sunshine State alone.
Lunches for other children
However, the cruel monsters mentioned above intervene as follows:
- “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” “sarcastic” he express post, Facts, Cairns Mail Most of the violations were related to News Corp;
- “Taxpayers will be the ones who 'pay for other children's lunches now'opinion by Danica Di Giorgio on Sky News.
- 'Tok stores can't handle free lunches, He claimed the Brisbane Times;
- $2 billion for hamburgers in schools Crisafulli offered in AFR; and
- Karl Stefanovic asked Prime Minister Steven Miles today: 'Do you think Queenslanders are stupid?
Regardless of IQ in Queensland, he express post,meanwhile,quoted'Robert Srejek, Townsville retireeWho asked and then answered your definitive question:
“Free lunch for young offenders? …Judges should be asked to impose harsher sentences.”
Yeah, some random liberal voter says three young men tried to break into his car, so you know, all the kids should starve and/or go to prison. he express post You forgot to mention that “petty criminals” also (probably) get a free lunch in prison. Banning prison food could also be on the LNP's agenda.
Finally, News.com begins its in-depth coverage with:
“Steven Miles has defended his controversial promise…”
When did it become “controversial” to try to ensure that children do not go hungry, and why is it necessary to defend this social service?
What are our taxes even if they do not address the social problems affecting our society? If it's not about providing help to people suffering from hunger and homelessness, providing quality education, healthcare and senior care, or ensuring environmental protection?
Is there no such thing as free lunch?
And maybe someone should tell Queensland politicians, like David Crisafulli, who we're paying taxes to right now. We finance the bed, lunch… breakfast… dinner… and drinks at a rate of between $330 and $416 per day. There is no such thing as a free meal.
It's interesting – if not exactly infuriating – that the Murdoch-led media group that cheers on the Liberal National Party decided to focus on grilling Prime Minister Miles about how he plans to fund free school lunches, but were quite happy to ignore Crisafulli's ability to dribble , bend and body. -Deviation of any costs, for any of your policies, whatever they may be.
But our taxes are meant to continue fattening politicians, not to help fill the bellies of poor children.
Oh, and our taxes are supposed to help fund schools for the children of the rich, whose parents reject the underfunded public school system, but are also unwilling to pay the full high cost of little Johnny of Ascot and Susie from Mermaid Beach. rounded school years. Year after year, during which the provision of another FINA-standard ten-lane indoor swimming pool, a tennis complex to rival Wimbledon or additional music lessons taught by members of the Philharmonic Orchestra became mere common occurrences.
These same parents, who are happy to dole out about $35,000 a year for each child's education, are not proud enough to object to their favorite elite schools receiving additional taxpayer funding, the equivalent of more government aid. of which has been wasted. non-elite public schools.
That's not a problem, is it, Mr. Crisafulli?
More diverse housing/developments… and more mining!
Clearly, our taxes exist to ensure that our politicians, like David Crisafulli, can continue to enrich their real estate portfolios.
However, it is curious that the issue of Mr Crisafulli's property portfolio (along with that of federal opposition leader Peter Dutton) has remained conspicuously absent from media coverage this week, as the purchase by the Prime Minister Albanese's $4.2 million home dominated the news.
This is because it is acceptable for our taxes to fund the property portfolios of Liberal/National politicians, but it is prohibited and completely unacceptable for those of Labor persuasion.
Our taxes also exist to ensure that mining tycoons and developers never have to pay a fair amount of taxes (or any taxes at all) so that they can continue to contribute money to the coffers of political parties to keep the scam going indefinitely.
In fact, Crisafulli went so far as to promise to scrap the Queensland Renewable Energy Corporation's target and allow coal plants to burn “indefinitely”, returning more taxpayer money to mining companies.
For added insurance, Crisafulli, who will also privatize public housing, has promised to abandon Labour's ban on developer donations (because developers, like big polluters, deserve taxpayers' money, of course).
Imprisonment of petty criminals
Oh, and as well as not wasting taxpayers' money on anything that could benefit the disadvantaged, our taxes are there to recycle draconian laws that enable child abuse, such as the lowering of the age of criminal guilt in the Northern Territory, a policy that Queensland's opposition leader is also committed to. In fact, Crisafulli refers to young offenders as the “outcast generation,” which, he insists, is not racist at all.
Crisafulli has repeatedly refused to rule out a conscience vote on Bob Katter's party's stated desire to repeal abortion laws. Needless to say, women's bodily rights will not be a priority for our taxpayer dollars.
There is something inherently wrong if we allow David Crisafulli and others to associate with angry, like-minded old men with a Trump-sized egomania to dictate reproductive decisions to women.
Under Crisafulli's LNP government, our taxes aim to protect people from escaping poverty and homelessness.
There is something inherently wrong with our system of government and our national priorities if we seriously consider allowing people like David Crisafulli to use our money to support more mining and development interests instead of alleviating the suffering of children from hunger.
There is something very wrong with these people, period.
Fiona from SecondBite knows that free school lunches mean better attendance and better results.
We will provide it in all public elementary schools, because feeding our children is the right thing to do. pic.twitter.com/N6CYJxbGBP
– Steven Miles (@StevenJMiles) October 14, 2024
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