Handout mania
The people who are getting handouts don’t like the people who are paying for the handouts, because the people who are paying for the handouts can no longer afford to pay for both the handouts and their own needs.
The people who are paying for the handouts want the handouts to stop, and the people who are getting the handouts want even more handouts on top of the handouts they are already getting.
Now, the people who are forcing people to pay for the handouts have been told by the people who are receiving the handouts, that the people who are paying for the handouts are being mean and prejudiced.
So the people who are getting the handouts have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the handouts by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their handouts, and giving them the handouts in the first place.
We have let the handouts go on for so long that there are now more people getting handouts than paying for the handouts.
Previous great democracies failed because the voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
Thomas Jefferson said: “Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
So go figure. The number of people now getting handouts outnumbers the people paying for the handouts. Further to this, we now have a situation where people who genuinely require handouts are being compromised by those who don’t – and that situation is getting worse by the month. It has to stop.
Bill Hutton, Werribee South
Re: Still our land, but owners in limbo (Weekly, June 12):
Maybe there’s something in the ground they don’t want you to have.
Photohounds
Re: Works pave the way for new Wyndham pools (Weekly, June 12):
Unfortunately, as usual, the council didn’t listen to residents’ wants and needs. We need additional pools and the money wasted here could have built two new ones in Tarneit and Point Cook. The pools didn’t need to be demolished but could have refurbished and fixed for less than $2 million.
Angry at Wyndham council
