We’d just waste it ourselves

A Budget that was tough on Australians, who actually earned that money, but not so tough on others:

$4.5 billion will be dedicated to foreign aid, the same fixed percentage of GDP as every year, much of it spent on educational programs for our nearest neighbours.

The question no one on the left will answer: why do poor people need education? 

UPDATE

Reader NT Woman is all over this issue:

So then, how do we help homeless in Australia if the government won’t?
Aren’t our citizens worthy of help? Aren’t the homeless truly poor? How is it that (some) of us can see the need in another land, but ignore the need at home?
What about our people who still dont have houses or electricity after the floods and winter is coming or here?
I see overseas aid as santimonious and two faced, when it is at the expense of our own poor.

Column - A Grimm Budget, all right

I don't need to read the Budget papers or even listen to the Budget speech to know the Gillard Government’s first Budget is like a fairy tale about people who forgot how to save or even work.

Here's my analysis for you to use:

What a shameful waste, and the worst is that it’s wasted by a country which even this Government belatedly realises needs a big prod to get back to work and start earning the stuff. Other savings tell of the Government’s greatest folly—its falling for the global warming scare. 

How much else in this Budget tells of Labor failures? How many initiatives did Swan reveal last night to tempt people off benefits to which it seems millions are now addicted? 

This government is the most shameful government in my memory.