This taken from a headline piece in today's news, from this country's number one public broadcaster. An outfit famous for their unabashed Leftist lean and heavy manipulation of the facts: "Interest rates are also rising, as is the cost of living more broadly. Many Australians will be rightly wondering how on earth they're going to fund their current lifestyles into next year, without extra help." Keep in mind this news is primarily absorbed by those at or above the upper working classes, so when they say 'lifestyles', they're talking about cheese and wine. Now read the last three words. Without extra help. Why aren't they suggesting that people help themselves by adjusting their lifestyle to suit conditions? Because that wouldn't suit their corporate overlords, obviously. They want you and I to keep spending until there's nothing left, on the (false) promise that help is coming. Does anyone else actually think this is okay? Does anyone else think this kind of media manipulation isn't a huge part of the entitlement problem in our Western societies?
When you don’t have real problems, people find insignificant things to bitch about. That’s where entitlement comes from. And your lifestyle is never guaranteed. Sometimes people have to adjust it to suit the situation.
The only help people deserve is for the government to not intentionally hurt them. Biden, are you listening?
Yet this piece happily closes with "without extra help". Basically a sly way of saying "don't adjust your lifestyle, you can always ask Govt to bail you out later". It's both cruel (because those at the lower edge of the particular demographic are going to be ****ed if they keep spending, and no help is ever going to come), and sinister (because its purpose is to line the pockets of the richest).
I'm not opposed to help for the orphan, the aged, the disaster-struck, and the bonafide refugee - but to actively encourage everyone else to think in the terms piece suggests, is freaking despicable.
