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drmick
11 years ago
Push Polling has worked for them; relentless negativity has worked for them, now The Kredlin is introducing the proletariat to subliminal suggestions that you must cash your vouchers in at the Comrade Andrews` Institute for Better “Yes Dear” or else. I am so glad mu aged care employee wage rise was sacrificed for such a wonderful cause.
klewso
11 years ago
And he’s going to screw other welfare to pay for it…?
If you get divorced do you have to pay it back?
If you and a partner “planned (really, truly)” to get married, but “left someone at the altar”, say every week for a year, or even only once a month, do I have to pay it back?
[…. does resigning a previous position and taking up a different one in the same company (say “administration”) qualify as “resigning positions and not worked as a marriage educator since the minister was appointed”, if one previously worked “at the coal face of (say) Marriage Education Inc.” and proof of no conflict of interest?]
Remember this is the political out-house rat that lied about Haneef.
klewso
11 years ago
Howard’s monster for aging, Workchoices, Haneef, now he’s got welfare to screw up?
zut alors
11 years ago
Expecting $200 worth of counselling to fix a crook marriage is like expecting $100K to buy a house.
The Rabbott govt’s policy announcements are increasingly surreal.
Andybob
11 years ago
After Glen Campbell:
Its the preaching that the door is always open
And he’ll pay for us to talk
That makes me want to leave my latest meal
Thrown up and steaming on his couch
And his wanting us still shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
I’d meet him on a backroad
Or a river of my memory
And give that Kevin plenty of my mind
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Vouchers for Marriage Counselling! Australia is saved!
Push Polling has worked for them; relentless negativity has worked for them, now The Kredlin is introducing the proletariat to subliminal suggestions that you must cash your vouchers in at the Comrade Andrews` Institute for Better “Yes Dear” or else. I am so glad mu aged care employee wage rise was sacrificed for such a wonderful cause.
And he’s going to screw other welfare to pay for it…?
If you get divorced do you have to pay it back?
If you and a partner “planned (really, truly)” to get married, but “left someone at the altar”, say every week for a year, or even only once a month, do I have to pay it back?
[…. does resigning a previous position and taking up a different one in the same company (say “administration”) qualify as “resigning positions and not worked as a marriage educator since the minister was appointed”, if one previously worked “at the coal face of (say) Marriage Education Inc.” and proof of no conflict of interest?]
Remember this is the political out-house rat that lied about Haneef.
Howard’s monster for aging, Workchoices, Haneef, now he’s got welfare to screw up?
Expecting $200 worth of counselling to fix a crook marriage is like expecting $100K to buy a house.
The Rabbott govt’s policy announcements are increasingly surreal.
After Glen Campbell:
Its the preaching that the door is always open
And he’ll pay for us to talk
That makes me want to leave my latest meal
Thrown up and steaming on his couch
And his wanting us still shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
I’d meet him on a backroad
Or a river of my memory
And give that Kevin plenty of my mind