Rudd wastes billions on Aboriginals, still no progress.
The biggest lie ever manufactured in Australian history is the perpetual notion that somehow current Australian’s are financially responsible for the welfare of Aboriginals.
It is followed closely by the notion that current generation Aboriginals are somehow doomed to a life of booze, cigarettes and child abuse because they are genetically unable to move on with their lives.
The end result of both of these lies is the biggest sink of billions in Australian taxpayer money in the history of this country. And for what?
A government report released today, ironically titled “Overcoming Indigenous Advantage‘, informs us that aboriginal child abuse is at record highs, more aboriginals then ever before are commiting crime and being jailed and all those unsustainable jobless aboriginal communities up north are just as unsustainable as they were 50 years ago.
Well suprise bloody surprise.
They wanted a public government apology: They got one.
They wanted more handouts then ever before: They got them.
We ask them to get off their arses and become productive members of society: They call us racist.
And so the never ending cycle goes. The good news for Aboriginals is that it appears set to continue down the same well travelled path. Despite the writing on the wall clearly showing that throwing money at unsustainable remote communities with zero job prospects does nothing but promote rampant drug abuse and child molestation, Rudd’s answer to the damning report is:
It is unacceptable and it requires decisive action. (It) means we have to redouble and treble our efforts to make an impact… we must turn the corner.
Hip hip hooray!
The wasted billions have allegedly been squandered in the ‘closing the gap’ programs. These programs are designed to ‘close the gap’ between the general population statistics and those of Aboriginal communities. Things like life expectancy, probability of getting abused as children and jail rates are all taken into account.
Statistics aside, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that if non-aboriginal Australians were stuffed into camps in the middle of nowhere with no jobs available our life expectancies would plummet too. Not to mention crime rates would soar and I’m sure with a lack of policing things like child abuse would be on the rise too.
Sadly yet again another opportunity to blast this white elephant out of Australian society is missed and instead we just throw even more money at Australia’s least productive citizens. Money that I’m sure could be better spent in a time of financial crisis and record unemployment.
I mean jesus christ, if people thought sub prime mortgages were a bad investment, giving money to aboriginal communities is like selling soggy cardboard box homes to the homeless for millions, lending them the money to buy and expecting them not to default on the repayments.
We are never going to see a return on investment as long as we continue to permit unproductive welfare dependant camps to exist. Send a few bulldozers up there and offer to bus them back into civilization, or let nature take its course.
People, Aboriginal or not are never going to establish a sense of worth, productivity or self respect as long as they have all the time in the world to reflect on just how useless they are and are handed out free money for doing so.
In a sense Aboriginals are right when they harp on about the rest of Australia being to blame for their problems, only the past has nothing to do with it. It’s what the government does here and now that hurts them the most.
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