The pill is dirt cheap on the health care card. 
Centerlink payments with conditions
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Yeah, but you only have to avoid sex for what 8 days a month to completely avoid pregnancy.
And I think when I had a health care card (about 15 years ago) 3 months supply of the pill was about $4. Heaps cheaper than raising a kid!
Where are all the usual bleeding hearts from this forum who will, no doubt, attack the author of the above post, and thus, provide some hilarity to my otherwise boring Sunday?
Replace the author's name with mine and then you'll see it!
I'm a bleeding heart magnet for some reason.
I was expecting a slang at my beloved Pies.
How, oh how could I have overlooked the "Children of the Carringbush", the TV execs favourite, mass demographic of toothless, tattooed, welfare receiving, mulleted marauding morons (and this is just the women folk......at least I think they're women) from the list of Basics Cards recipients.....(Note: 1st edition sets of Basics Cards - personally signed by Eddie Maguire & Chopper)?
"Hey Hun!!....better jump the fence and raid the neighbours shed and steal their sleeping bags so we can send the kids down to sleep on the doorstep at Centrelink.......oh, that's right they already sleep there;.......anyway they gotta be in line for one of those cards".
"Maybe Today Tonight will interview them again, last time they were on TV was after they hot-wired the number 69 tram to St. Kilda and then went cruising with Didak and those bikies; and the cops thought it was the bikies or Didak doing the shooting; you know I was ROTFLMFAO when I told my probation officer it was the kids firing the warning shots".
"Hey!....Who's kids are they anyway?......How many are mine?.....What?.....Nine?.....How can ya tell? Oh yeah, we've been togevver for 18 months......of course!"
Around 20 years ago I knew someone who didn't stop until they had 10 - all with special needs. Granted they were all with the same dad, and they were married, but sheesh! The centrelink pmts must've been huge.
Currently mum at the school has 6 kids, one severly autistic - but her hubby wouldn't let her stop until she had a boy (number 6). Apparently her pmts are around $2000/fnt, and that's with hubby working fulltime shift work.
why would you run and hide?
i think welfare is there and deserving for those that are really in need of it - your empathy is a measure of your humanity.
socialism be damned - we have a responsibility to look after each other.
i think welfare is there and deserving for those that are really in need of it - your empathy is a measure of your humanity.
socialism be damned - we have a responsibility to look after each other.
I hate government welfare.
Can't wait for negative gearing to be removed
*runs and hides*
I don't think everyone got it...
i got it - i understand it - i just chose not to react.
I don't think we have a responsibility to look after each other for a lifetime.
When some refuses to help themselves continously and long term they are nothing but a parasite.
I agree - as a safety net for a period when they are in real need. Not as a (sometimes inter-generational) lifestyle choice.
No arguements here.
Hell, out of work for 6 months after 15 years employed? Yep, you need a safety net while you look for work.
Go on the dole and 16 and never leave until you get a pension? Yeah, here. Have some of my contempt.
We know what you think cause you already told us.
Aaron was jsut telling us what he thinks.
The system sometimes turns what should be a "hand-up", into a "hand-out"...............ad infinitum..............
Was the purpose of your reply to Aaron if not do the same thing you are accusing me of ?
I think we have a responsibility to help others that need help.
Anyone else, we should have no obligation to.
And as human beings we are stuck with systems that we can put together which achevie those aims without compromising help to those who need it..
Being that in life nothing is black & white, neither is the the defintion of who needs help and who doesn't always....
What do you thikn the lack of suucesful previous sytems over the ages which helpd 100-% of those who need help and 0% of those who tried to elicit help because of their own irresponsibilities tells us ?
