Ithink, therefore I am" is the famous first principle of René Descartes' philosophy. This photo was taken when he heard that the Australian people had voted Labor back into office, thus proving, surprisingly, that people who don't think also exist.
Another three years of Labor will see a lot more MONOPOLY money being showered on the "disadvantaged" whose only disadvantage is that they can't get off their arses. We're now bringing up a whole generation of young people who feel "entitled" to everything they haven't even worked for yet. Just the other night I saw on the ABC News a 21-year-old university student complaining that he couldn't buy a house. At 21 years of age? Before he had even started work? What happened to growing up, learning a trade, getting a job, and living on 2-Minute noodles for many years while he saves up for the deposit? I did!
Satisfying that long queue of people who feel entitled to government hand-outs can only mean one thing under Labor: higher taxes and an attack on those superannuation concessions I signed up for when I was asked to save for my own retirement. Instead of introducing a fairer, broad-based tax such as increasing the rate of GST which has been the same since its introduction in 2000, Labor is once again robbing the Peters (moi included) to pay off a multitude of Pauls to win their votes.
If they introduce a tax on unrealised capital gains in self-managed super funds, I may yet do a reverse migration in my old age - no, not back to Berlin but to Bali. It's been sixty years since I came to this wonderful country but it has changed a lot since then, and not all for the better.
Luckily, I have been in pension phase for many years and can empty my superannuation account at the touch of a button, as can Padma who turned sixty in March, so we may yet turn all those lovely Australian dollars into Indonesian rupiahs and become instant billionaires.
